Susan E. Pravda is a partner and business lawyer at Foley & Lardner LLP. Susan’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, initial public offerings and related securities transactions. She is the sector head for the Health Care & Life Sciences Sector and a member of the firm’s Private Equity & Venture Capital and Transactional & Securities Practices. Susan serves as chief strategic talent acquisition partner for the firm and is a managing director of Foley Ventures LLC, a venture capital fund. She chaired the Technology Industry Team for 10 years from 2004 to 2014 and served on the firm’s national management committee from 2009 to 2016.