Qualified to lead, barred from investing

By: Nicolas Morgan, Wendy Damron

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: April 13, 2026

Words: 824

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Emily Kapszukiewicz has spent her career in health care — earning a master’s degree in applied economics and running multimillion-dollar programs. But when the Oregon health care executive tried to invest her own savings in a health care venture fund aligned with her life’s work, the federal government said no.

She fell $150,000 short of the Security and Exchange Commission’s $1 million net worth threshold for “accredited investors.”

The fund later hired her as CEO …

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