Vijay Barathan is a former doctor, healthcare investment banker turned healthtech venture capital partner for Optum Ventures, leading investments globally outside of the US. Before Optum Ventures, Vijay was a life science partner with Catapult’s GM & C Life Sciences Fund leading and managing investments across life sciences with a specialist focus on digital health. Prior to this, he was chief investment officer at a healthcare IP commercialisation company focused on digital health, diagnostics and therapeutics investments. He was previously a health care investment banker at Peel Hunt and Piper Jaffray, looking after listed health care clients as well as undertaking IPO, M & A, private placement and secondary fundraising transactions. Vijay began his career in medicine and worked as a doctor for the NHS. He qualified from Guy’s Kings and St. Thomas Medical School in London and holds a MBBS in Medicine and a B.S in Development Neurobiology.