Guneesh Batra is an Investment Manager at Ascension Ventures (AV), a strategic venture capital and growth equity firm with over $1 billion under management which invests on behalf of thirteen of the nation's largest non-profit health systems. Guneesh also sits on the board of Rejoni.Prior to AV, Guneesh was a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Investment Banking group at Brown Gibbons Lang & Company, where he provided M&A advisory services to companies in the medical devices & diagnostics and healthcare services sectors. Before that, he worked as an independent consultant on behalf of companies making strategic acquisitions in the medical devices sector and provided financial advisory services to healthcare companies in the medical devices, digital health, and healthcare services sectors as an Investment Banking Associate at JMP Securities and Synergy Advisors.He earned his Master of Science in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Arts in Quantitative Economics from the University of California, Irvine.