Flare Capital Partners Adds Parth Desai as Senior Associate

flareFlare Capital Partners, a Boston, MA-based healthcare technology venture capital firm, added healthcare technology investor and experienced policy professional Parth Desai as a Senior Associate.

Desai has been an advocate for profound healthcare innovation throughout his career. He joins Flare Capital from the investment team at New York-Presbyterian Ventures, where he spent time identifying innovations that have the potential to improve the quality and experience of care.
Desai also spent several years at Deloitte Consulting helping hospital and health plan executives reinvent their business models and invest in capabilities to succeed in risk-bearing arrangements.

Desai began his career as a Health Policy Analyst for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he led development of legislation reforming oversight of the pharmaceutical industry in Massachusetts and was an appointee to the Health and Human Services Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Desai often speaks on panels and writes about the topics of healthcare innovation and selling into hospital systems. He is also an active mentor to a number of healthcare start-ups.
Desai earned his Master of Arts in Clinical Medicine and a Master of Public Health in Health Management and Policy, both from Boston University. Additionally, he graduated from Boston College with a BS in Biology.

Led by Bill Geary, co-founder and partner, and Michael Greeley, co-founder and partner, Flare Capital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on early stage opportunities in healthcare technology innovation. Selected investments include Aetion, Aspen RxHealth, Bright Health, Circulation (acquired by LogistiCare), ClearDATA, Curisium, HealthReveal, HealthVerity, Iora Health, Somatus, Valence Health (acquired by Evolent Health), VisitPay and Welltok.

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25/03/2019

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