Thomas Verghese

Thomas Verghese is a Partner and the Health Sector Lead for The Rise Fund. He led the fund’s investments into Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers and Evercare Dhaka. Most recently, Thomas worked at LeapFrog Investments in London, where he built the Global Health investment team. Before LeapFrog, he worked in London at the British Sovereign Wealth Fund as well as in New York for Bank of America Merrill Lynch within their investment banking division. Thomas is on the Board of Trustees for the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine. He serves as a board director for Nairobi Women’s Hospital, Metropolitan & Ladnan Hospitals, Avenue Hospital, Evercare Dhaka Hospital, Evercare Lekki Hospital, Blue Cloud Pediatric Surgery Centers, and for the Center for Health Education Access. He holds an MBA from the University of Oxford and a BA in Finance from Georgetown University.