Carolee Lee

CEO & Founder WHAM

Founder, CEO, WHAM; TIME100 Health Catalyst Carolee Lee is an innovative trailblazer dedicated to transforming the health of women. In 2020, she founded WHAM (Women's Health Access Matters), a non-profit organization committed to accelerating research and investment in women's health. WHAM is implementing strategies to eliminate the inequities and bias in research and enterprise, while accelerating scientific discovery and economic impact. In 2020, WHAM commissioned the RAND Corporation to create The WHAM Report, which quantified the economic benefits of investing in woman's health research. As a well-recognized, highly respected leader, she has shifted the dialogue on women's health by looking at the ethics, empirical data and economic impact of women's health while coalescing others to spearhead effective change. As an entrepreneurial thinker, Carolee believes that convening and motivating thought leaders from all parts of the ecosystem will be key in creating the needed sustainable and lasting change to drive innovation and action while addressing the inequities which still exist today. Prior to founding WHAM, as a creative force and visionary leader in the fashion world, Carolee built a preeminent global brand and successfully sold it to Luxottica in 2001 Carolee has served on numerous public and private boards and currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Milken Institute Women's Health Network and on the boards of: The La Jolla Institute for Immunology; The Women's Health Advisory Board, Brigham and Women's Hospital; and The Women's Leadership Board at The John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is a past president of the Committee of 200 and served as the Chair of its Foundation Board. Carolee also was a director on the board of DSW, Inc., the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation where she played several board leadership roles.