Sarah Hoit
Co-Founder & Chairman
Founding Partner
Retail Health Initiative
Co-Founder
VitalityIP
Sarah Hoit is a social entrepreneur, technology CEO, and healthy aging expert who has made significant contributions in both the private and public sectors. Her work spans various fields, including social impact, technology, brain health, food-centered health, AI innovations, senior living, and national service.
As the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Social Impact Partners | Global Brain Health Initiative, Hoit leads a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting brain health through collaboration, innovation, and investment. She is also the Co-Founder of VitalityIP, a company with a personalized health engine working to integrate healthy food, personal data, science and the revolutionary power of AI to transform health outcomes globally. Hoit’s influence extends to her partnership in the Retail Health Initiative with Harvard’s “Managing the Future of Work” program, which brings corporate leaders together to incorporate health strategies into their business models.
Prior to developing SIP, Sarah was the Chief Social Impact Officer for BioVie, Inc., an innovative pharmaceutical company that, through people-centered science, is creating groundbreaking innovations to combat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. From 2007 to 2021, she was the co-founding CEO & Chair of Connected Living, Inc, a technology company created to connect an aging population. Connected Living created an accessible, digital, virtual, social network designed specifically for seniors and senior living communities. The network provides a high-tech and high-touch way for seniors and families to connect, access goods and services, and enhance quality of life. The company now serves more than 2000 senior living communities across the United States. During the Covid pandemic, the company became an essential service. In 2021, Sarah successfully orchestrated the sale of Connected Living to Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI).
Previously she was the founding CEO and Chair of Explore, Inc., an education company that elevated elementary and high school students academically and socially through the integration of experiential learning, homework and skill lessons, physical education, and community service. Earlier she served as the Director of Business Planning in the White House Office of National Service, and as Deputy Director of AmeriCorps, where she was a senior leader of the national service program that has enabled more than one million youth to serve their country.
Her passion for improving lives is further demonstrated through her board and advisory positions with HelloGard Robotics, CaringKind, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, Dementia Friendly America, Tenacity, and Argentum’s Women in Leadership.
Hoit’s background is complemented by her education, as she is a graduate of both Harvard Business School and Dartmouth College.