Pooja Goel

Pooja Goel is Managing Director for healthcare services investments at Ascension Ventures. She is responsible for co-leading the portfolio investment strategy and seeks out new opportunities for partnership. Within healthcare services, her focus has been value-based care, senior offerings, and tech-enabled services for chronic condition management. Her operational background and experience lend her great ability to create value with an emphasis on new market expansion and scale.

Prior to joining AV, Pooja was a Partner at Virgo Investment Group responsible for the healthcare practice. She has spent over two decades in the healthcare industry, grappling firsthand with healthcare megatrends and their consequences. This includes the high cost of care for patients with multiple chronic conditions, the need to address social determinants of health, the shift in payment models from volume to value, the decentralization of care, and increasing emphasis on the patient/family experience. Pooja worked previously as National General Manager for new business at Landmark Health. Before that, she served as Group Vice President for the Southern California market for Healthcare Partners, overseeing several thousands of MA lives, employed/affiliated providers, and medical clinics/urgent care centers.