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Aberdare Ventures adds Mohit Kaushal to focus on healthcare investments

Healthcare venture capital firm Aberdare Ventures has appointed Mohit (Mo) Kaushal as a partner.

 
Kaushal (pictured) is a leading authority on information-enabled care delivery and will focus on Aberdare’s investments in technologies and services that will drive healthcare efficiency.
 
“Mo has lived at the intersection of medicine, technology, communications, and policy for years,” says Paul Klingenstein, founder of Aberdare Ventures. “He’ll make an enormous contribution to our efforts in transformational health investing. The timing is superb for all of us.”
 
An MD and MBA by training, Kaushal was most recently the inaugural chief strategy officer and executive vice president of business development at West Health, a unique set of entities focused on lowering healthcare costs through medical research, healthcare policy, investment and entrepreneurship. He developed the West Health Investment Fund strategy, sourced and led investments in Humedica (acquired by Optum Health), Change Healthcare, RxAnte and goBalto.
 
Previously, Kaushal was the director of Connected Health with the Federal Communications Commission, where he established the agency’s first dedicated healthcare team. During his time in the Obama administration, he was also a member of the White House Health IT task force, a cross-agency team focusing on implementing the technology aspects of Health Reform.
 
Prior to this position, Kaushal was an investment professional at Polaris Venture Partners, and worked for Merrill Lynch’s health care investment banking group and the World Health Organization.
 
“Aberdare has a wonderful reputation for advancing some of the most disruptive companies in healthcare,” said Kaushal. “The team shares my passion for working with great companies and entrepreneurs to produce a much more efficient, consumer-centric and efficacious healthcare system, and I am very excited to be on board.”
 
Kaushal joins existing Aberdare Venture partners Paul Klingenstein, Darren Hite, Sami Hamade, Jake Odden, and Sigrid Van Bladel.

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