Alyssa Rapp

In February 2021, Alyssa filed an S-1 for her first special purpose acquisition corporation ("SPAC"), Healthwell Acquisition Corporation I. It IPO’d on the NASDAQ in August 2021 (“HWELU”). From January 2018 through April 2021, Alyssa served as the CEO of Surgical Solutions, a health care services company first owned by Sterling Partners and acquired by Grupo Vitalmex in February 2020, a portfolio company of Australis Partners. She was named one of Crain’s Top Women Leaders in Healthcare in both 2018 and 2019. Alyssa is the author of Amazon-bestseller Leadership and Life Hacks: How to Live and Lead with Maximum Impact and Efficiency (ForbesBooks 2019). From 2015-2017, Alyssa served as the Managing Partner of AJR Ventures, a firm that provides strategic advisory services to companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500's on their product innovation, new business unit development, e-commerce, digital and social media strategies. In 2014, Alyssa became a lecturer-in-management at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Starting in 2020, Alyssa also became an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago’s Booth Business School. Previously, Alyssa served as the founder & CEO of Bottlenotes, Inc. and author of Bottlenotes Guide to Wine: Around the World in 80 Sips®. Alyssa was named one of Inc. Magazine's “30 Under 30” coolest entrepreneurs in America” and is consistently named one of the wine industry’s top 100 most influential people (Intowine.com). Bottlenotes received the “People’s Choice Award” at the Empact Showcase at the United Nations, honoring the top 100 companies with founders under 35. Alyssa earned a B.A. in Political Science and the History of Art from Yale University in 2000 and an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2005. Alyssa currently serves as an elected School Board Member for District 36 in Winnetka, Illinois. Alyssa is also a gubernatorial appointee to the Illinois Humanities Council. Previously, she served on the Board of Trustees for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, on the Board of Directors of Spark Program, and as a gubernatorial-appointee to the Illinois Housing Development Authority board, where she served on the audit committee. When not immersed in business and civic life, Alyssa loves to run track, do yoga, ski fast, and try as hard as possible to decipher a slider from a curve ball from her husband, 1990 MLB World Series champion and X10 Capital team member, Hal Morris.

Sprinting, hiking, yoga, pilates, contemporary dance, contemporary art, early childhood education, Democratic politics, and Atlas Shrugged.