Ms. Starikovsky brings a strong background of finance and entrepreneurship to RAD-AID. Ms. Starikovsky served as a Financial Analyst in Fixed Income Advisory at Goldman Sachs (2004-2007) during which time she focused on advising clients and investing in a wide array of financial assets as well as diligencing various micro and macro loan servicing models in the U.S. and abroad. She was subsequently promoted to Associate in the Global Banking Group in Goldman Sachs Bank USA (2007-2009) where she created international commercial banking business plans and creatively structured & raised over $20 billion in funding for the bank during the financial crisis. In 2009 Ms. Starikovsky was selected as the top 10% of her female Associate class to participate in the Goldman Sachs Women’s Career Strategies Initiative training and leadership program.
 
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Starikovsky spent two years in General Electric’s Capital Market Services group structuring finance solutions for GE Wind Energy and GE Healthcare after working briefly with a Director at the Export-Import Bank of the United States (2001-2004).  
 
As a graduate of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Ms. Starikovsky has always merged her entrepreneurial spirit with her interest in the humanitarian work. She co-founded the Georgetown chapter of the American Red Cross Blood Drive Club and fundraised for and led a group of ten students to the Ukraine to aid the struggling Jewish community.
 
After a life-changing skiing accident, Ms. Starikovsky decided to apply her business training to the practice of medicine and is currently attending Columbia University’s Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Sciences Program. 
 
Bringing extensive finance experience, Ms. Starikovsky is building RAD-AID's Health Care Economic Development Program, which fosters local entrepreneurs and emerging leaders to grow imaging services in developing countries.  Ms. Starikovsky strives to educate local partners and international investors of the critical and basic role of radiologic imaging services in the modern health care system including direct patient care and public health programs such as lung infections and breast cancer screening.
 
By linking the development of health care programs with local entrepreneurship and leadership training, RAD-AID's aim is to achieve sustainable solutions that not only deliver health service to communities but also foster job creation and educational opportunities.  In this role, Ms. Starikovsky led the Finance and Social Entrepreneurship Panel at the RAD-AID Conference on International Radiology for Developing Countries.  The panel was a multidisciplinary team focusing on social entrepreneurship, microfinance, and health care project development. As Director of Health Care Economic Development, Ms. Starikovsky develops partnerships with micro and macro-finance and franchise organizations, equipment providers, social entrepreneurship organizations, banking and business schools to further reinforce this important link between sustainable health care and economic growth. If you are interested in learning more about the role of RAD-AID in health care economic development, please email info@rad-aid.org for more information.