Jennifer Baird Biography and Net Worth

Jennifer A. Baird joined the board of directors of SeaStar Medical in 2024 and in July 2025 our Board of Directors appointed Ms. Baird as Chair of the Board of Directors. Ms. Baird brings leadership, management, and executive experience to provide effective support and oversight of the Company’s operations. Since 2023, Ms. Baird has served as the Executive Chair of the Board of Directors for Culturewell, Co., an organization that delivers actionable insights for healthcare infection prevention through environmental sampling testing and germ risk assessments. From 2017 to 2022, Ms. Baird founded and served as the Chief Executive officer of Fifth Eye Inc., a software medical device company developing and commercializing healthcare related clinical algorithms and predictive analytics using steaming physiologic parameter inputs. From 2010 to 2017, Ms. Baird was the chief executive officer of Accio Energy, Inc., an organization that focused on developing transformational renewable energy technology. In addition, Ms. Baird has co-founded other healthcare-based companies including Accuri Cytometers, Inc. (acquired by Becton Dickinson) and Sonetics Ultrasound, Inc. Ms. Baird served in Chief Executive Officer-Director roles for each of Fifth Eye, Inc., Accio Energy, Inc., Accuri Cytometers Inc., and Sonetics Ultrasound, Inc. Ms. Baird has served as a director for Hope Clinic, a nonprofit, since 2009 and an advisor for Michigan Founders Fund, since 2020.

Ms. Baird has a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Psychology/Leadership from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration from Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University.