Linda Magara Horner is the Senior Director of Corporate Strategic Planning at Medtronic, partnering across the enterprise as a key member of the Global Strategy team to guide the company’s future direction. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology, developing and manufacturing device-based medical therapies and services across four main portfolios: Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Medical Surgical, and Neuroscience, with a mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.

Previously, Linda served as Partner, Impact Investments & Corporate Strategy at Uplifting Capital, an impact-focused fund-of-funds specializing in constructing private asset portfolios for individuals and institutions, investing across venture capital, private equity, and real assets. The firm focuses on investments designed to deliver strong financial returns while driving meaningful positive environmental and societal outcomes. At Uplifting Capital, she led corporate strategy initiatives and participated in investment activities, including fund manager sourcing, due diligence, impact strategy, and portfolio monitoring, specifically leveraging her background to spearhead the diligence of healthcare impact investments.

Before joining Uplifting Capital, Linda was the Director of Corporate Strategy at SCAN, one of the nation’s largest Medicare Advantage not-for-profit organizations—at $4 billion in revenue—focused on addressing the most significant issues in healthcare for older adults. Before SCAN, she was a Global Product Manager, working on upstream product strategy and evaluating acquisitions and strategic partnership opportunities for Medtronic’s deep brain stimulation product. Prior to that, Linda worked on leveraged finance transactions at Credit Suisse in the Financial Sponsors Investment Banking Group and finance at Aetna, performing financial due diligence on healthcare providers of various sizes under risk delegation contracts. She began her career at Deloitte & Touche in their audit practice where she became a California Certified Public Accountant (currently inactive).

Linda holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she attended as a Toigo Foundation, Consortium for Graduate School Management, and Dartmouth Global Health Fellow. She also has a BS in Business Administration, Accounting from The Master’s University, Summa Cum Laude. Linda holds certifications in human-centered strategy from IDEOU, impact measurement from the University of Oxford, and impact investing from the CFA Institute (UK). Outside of work, she is a leadership coach in the Tuck School of Business’ Personal Leadership Program, serves as Vice Chair of the Board for Action in Africa, and on the Advisory Board of the National Black MBA Association – Los Angeles Chapter.