Pooja Goel

Managing Director - Healthcare Services Ascension Ventures (AV) helps accelerate innovation through strategic investment in early to late-stage companies across three healthcare sectors: services, technology, and medtech/devices. With five funds and over $1B under management, AV invests on behalf of 450+ leading hospitals nationwide. AV’s 13 health system limited partners (LPs) represent over 580,000 employees and generate $96B in annual revenue. Launched in 2001 by Ascension, AV pioneered an ecosystem investment model that brings a strategic lens to purposeful investing. This unique perspective empowers AV to partner in a differentiated way: identifying and investing in solutions that transform healthcare. We bring an in-depth understanding of our partner organizations and seek to make connections among our team with a singular goal: smart investments that improve healthcare. We’ve invested in nearly 80 companies and facilitated thousands of conversations between idea generators and health system executives. AV is passionate about finding real solutions to problems in healthcare. To learn more, please visit www.ascensionventures.org.

www.cedargate.com Our technology platform is purpose-built for payers, providers, employers, and their advisory partners to manage the transition to and ongoing performance of value-based care. We are equipped to meet our clients where they are on their value-based care journey by delivering solutions that address their unique technology and risk tolerance needs. Ranging from SaaS, cloud-enabled to on-premise delivery, a unified data lake connects our analytics, population health, and payment technology solutions. For each stage of value-based care, from upside-only incentives to full-risk global capitation, our solutions are actuarially-driven through descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics and are specifically designed to improve clinical, financial and operational outcomes.

www.virgo-llc.com Partner overseeing team focused on healthcare. The investment team at Virgo looks to partner with founder-run, mission-driven businesses with the potential to disrupt their industries in meaningful ways. Virgo Investment Group has been helping innovative businesses achieve breakthrough growth since 2009. Virgo has raised more than $1.8 billion and completed +60 investments.

https://swiftmedical.com Board member at this company which has developed the most powerful wound engagement tool for organizations across the healthcare continuum, transforming every aspect of healing from point of care to patient administration and analysis.

www.lifespark.com Board Member at this company offering a data-driven model of holistic care for seniors that promises to combat rising medical costs by addressing the social determinants of health. Worth magazine says many analysts believe Lifesprk is building the model “that will drive the next decade of innovation and advancement across a large swath of the aging sector.”

https://www.alveotechnologies.com/ Scientific Advisory Board Member at company developing technology for at-home detection of infectious diseases.

www.peerfit.com Board Member at this digital health tech company that works with employers and insurers to offer fitness classes and services, personalized for the user.

National General Manager responsible for new business at this healthcare provider that partners with health plans to provide medical, palliative and behavioral health care, along with social services, to patients through telemedicine and in-home visits across the U.S.

As Group Vice President for Operations, I had responsibility for the management and oversight of operations in metropolitan Los Angeles, reporting to the market president. I provided strategic and tactical direction to employed and affiliated physicians/sites, had budget and P&L accountability for more than 200,000 patients, identified growth opportunities and worked closely with executive leadership to develop competitive strategies.

As Vice President for New Market Integration, I led an innovative team focused on integrating new markets with population health management capabilities by utilizing information tools and analytics to advance value-based care.

As Vice President for International Strategy and Operations, I led a team that reported to the Chief Operating Officer on international initiatives. I was responsible for the launch and support of kidney care centers in Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East; as a result DaVita expanded into nine countries in two years. Our team conducted due diligence, strategic analysis/market entry and financial reporting. We helped to develop transition planning for transforming a domestic brand and model to a global platform.

Began work as Director of Special Projects to the COO. and rose through the ranks to become Group Vice President of Operations at this Fortune 500 healthcare company with more than $13 billion in annual revenue; the largest provider of kidney care globally with more than 2,200 dialysis facilities.