Mark Zitter

Venture Partner, ICI Fund | California

As a Venture Partner, Mark supports ICI Fund’s portfolio companies’ founders with their growth in the US market.

Mark Zitter was the founder of Zitter Health Insights, a market research and data firm focused on access to medical technologies, which he sold in 2019. He was the founding CEO of Vital Decisions, a telephone counseling company for patients with serious illnesses, that he sold in 2012. He advises startup and growth companies through the advisory committee for Riverside Partners, the Israeli venture fund ICI, and the US-based venture fund StartFast Ventures, as well as several independent companies. Mark also advises Stanford BioDesign’s policy fellowship program. He previously founded the Zetema Project, which convened a diverse group of US healthcare leaders to enhance the national healthcare conversation. He also served as the healthcare advisor and meeting facilitator for Convergence California, a bi-partisan coalition focused on achieving universal healthcare coverage for Californians.

Mark is a Fellow at the American Leadership Forum and co-leader of SERGE, a private national entrepreneur’s group. He currently is leading a philanthropic initiative to increase adoption and regular use of generative artificial intelligence among nonprofit organizations.

Mark chaired the Board of SFJAZZ, the nation’s leading presenter of jazz, and contributed to the development of the SFJAZZ Center, the first freestanding center for jazz in America. As a member of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Club, the country’s oldest and largest public affairs forum, he chaired a series on end-of-life issues as well as hosting other healthcare-related programs. Mark is Board chair of Reel Medicine Media, a nonprofit media company aiming to humanize medical care at end of life, and chair of the Upstart Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which supports social entrepreneurs. He also serves on the Governance Committee of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation, the Founders Circle for Convergence, and the Board of Boundless Junior Agility Camp.

Mark has worked with not-for-profits on Board development and published articles in Stanford Social Innovation Review on chairing NFP Boards, managing Boards in a virtual environment, and running effective hybrid meetings. He lives in Piedmont, CA with his physician-film maker wife and their mini-poodle. They have three adult children scattered around the US. His hobbies include convening, jazz and classical music, pescatarian cooking, and voracious reading.