Afia Asamoah

Co-founder, General Counsel and Head of Strategic Alliances, Waymark

Throughout her career, Afia Asamoah has worked at the intersection of technology and health. After nearly 8 years in senior health roles at Google, most recently as Head of Legal for the Google Health business unit, Afia co-founded Waymark, a health technology start-up that uses proprietary technology and community based and virtual care teams to improve outcomes and reduce readmissions and avoidable acute care utilization by patients with Medicaid benefits.

Afia is recognized as a leader and digital health innovator. Prior to joining Google, from 2009-2011, Afia served as Special Assistant in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner’s Office, where she created a new FDA center for regulating tobacco products and led initiatives to increase technology innovation by biotech and medical devices companies. For her efforts, she received the FDA’s highest award, the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation “for strong leadership and innovative management of the FDA Transparency Initiative and Task Force.” In 2020, Afia was named “”one of the 10 most influential minority healthcare executives” by FierceHealthcare. In 2024, as part of the inaugural class of catalysts recognized by f7 Ventures, Afia was named one of 10 “exceptional leaders and operators at high-growth companies that are driving real change in their communities.” She most recently was honored as part of the Class of 2026 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business by the SF Business Times.

Outside of work, she serves as board director for Lucille Packard Stanford Children’s Hospital, chairing the audit committee, board director and vice chair of the Public Health Institute, a non-profit that focuses on improving health and equity globally, and a board director on the governing board of the Carol Emmott Foundation, an organization dedicated to achieving gender equity in healthcare leadership and governance.

Afia received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, her Masters of Public Policy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and her BA from Harvard University.”