Caduceus Capital Partners names executive venture partners
The six will source and vet start-ups, hold director positions on boards, support investment fund decisions, and advise portfolio company executives.
Caduceus Capital Partners LLC, a Nashville-based venture capital firm focused on digital health investments, has named six executive venture partners. They will play a key role in the firm’s second fund, Caduceus Capital Partners Early-Stage Digital Health Fund II, which has a goal of investing $50 million in 15 to 20 artificial intelligence-enabled digital health companies over the next three to five years.
The new partners include:
- Adam Bauer, Vice President, Analytics Services, Optum;
- Jon Kaplan, Managing Director and Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group – Healthcare;
- John Johnston, Senior Vice President, Optum Insight;
- Russ Rudish, Principal, Rudish Health;
- Jeff Sturman, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer, Memorial Healthcare System; and
- Andrew Vaz, Former Managing Partner, Global Ecosystems and Alliances, and Chief Innovation Officer, Deloitte.
As active leaders in the investment process, these individuals will source and vet start-ups, hold director positions on portfolio company boards, support investment fund decisions, and advise portfolio company executives.
The firm, led by Dave Vreeland, Senior Managing Partner, and Scott Kolesar, Managing Partner, closed Fund I at $29 million in 2023.
Click here to read the firm’s news release.
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