Alyssa Rapp
Biography

Alyssa Rapp is the Chief Executive Officer Empower Aesthetics, a portfolio company of Shore Capital Partners, a platform for which she has served on the board of directors since inception. Previously, Ms. Rapp served as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Healthwell Acquisition Corp. I, a $250MM special purpose acquisition corporation that IPO’d on the NASDAQ in August 2021. Prior to Healthwell, Ms. Rapp served as Chief Executive Officer of Surgical Solutions from 2018-2021, a B2B healthcare services business providing non-clinical surgical services to hospitals, owned by Chicago-based private equity firm, Sterling Partners. There, Ms. Rapp led a successful turnaround of the enterprise, driving 21% sales growth with 90% customer retention. Ms. Rapp has also served as an independent director of Together Women’s Health, a portfolio company of Shore Capital Partners, since October 2020, and Health Data Movers, a healthcare technology company. From 2005-2015, Ms. Rapp served as the founder & CEO of Bottlenotes, Inc., a leading interactive media company. From 2015-2017, Ms. Rapp served as the Managing Partner of A JR Ventures, a strategic advisory firm for family offices and private equity firms on digital, e-commerce and go to market strategies. Ms. Rapp served as a lecturer-in-management at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business from 2014-2022 and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago’s Booth Business School since 2019. Ms. Rapp 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. She is the author of Amazon Bestseller, Leadership and Life Hacks: Insights from a Mom, Wife, Entrepreneur & Executive (ForbesBooks, October 2019).

When not immersed in business and civic life, Alyssa loves to Peloton, 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 current partner at X10 Capital, Hal Morris. Alyssa and Hal are the proud parents of Audrey Margaret Morris and Henriette Daniella Morris.

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Brand Building 101
Lessons Learned from a Decade in Silicon Valley

Creating brands involves innovation, creativity, and inspiration; building brands involves time-tested strategies for marketing, sales, and public relationships, utilizing media platforms old and new. Hear from serial entrepreneur and executive Alyssa Rapp her process for brand creation, innovation, and development.

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Top 5 Leadership Hacks for Business
Life Hacks for the Entrepreneur
Life Hacks for Women in Business
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Global Wines, Global Investments

The world of wines is filled with arbitrage investment opportunities—based upon geography, vintage, provenance, and more. Learn about the best value wines—and the most coveted—by these benchmarks.

Around the World in 80 Sips
A Journey for New Enthusiasts through Connoisseurs

Serial entrepreneur and executive Alyssa Rapp spent a decade innovating in the US wine industry prior to becoming a Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer in management on the Global Dynamics of the Wine Industry. Along the way, she developed knowledge that she describes is a mile wide and an inch deep. Take a quick trip "around the world in 80 sips" with Alyssa (same title of her first book), exploring the current favorite top 6 wine growing regions- from an economic, regulatory, legal, market dynamics frame of mind (along with some great wine).

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Featured Books

Leadership & Life Hacks: Insights From A Mom, Wife, Entrepreneur & Executiveby Alyssa Rapp

Leadership & Life Hacks: Insights From A Mom, Wife, Entrepreneur & Executive

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Hacks for the New World: How to Live and Work in the Age of Sheltering-at-Home--and Beyondby Alyssa Rapp

Hacks for the New World: How to Live and Work in the Age of Sheltering-at-Home--and Beyond

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Bottlenotes Guide to Wine: Around the World in 80 Sipsby Alyssa Rapp

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