Ram Jagannath
Senior Managing Director-Tactical Opportunities, Blackstone Inc.
New York, NY 10154
Phone (212) 583-5000
Property Types
Health Care
Bio
Ram Jagannath is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Healthcare for Blackstone Growth, based in New York. He is as a member of the Blackstone Growth Investment Committee.
Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Jagannath was a founding Partner of Navab Capital Partners (NCP), where he was Head of Healthcare and a member of the firm’s Management and Investment Committees. Prior to NCP, he was a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, focused on healthcare investments in Carlyle’s flagship US Buyout private equity fund. During his twelve years at Carlyle, Mr. Jagannath was a member of the teams which invested in One Medical Group, Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), X-Co (the parent company of X-Chem and X-Rx), Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD), Healthscope Ltd., and HCR ManorCare. Previously, he worked at Genstar Capital and Thomas Weisel Capital Partners.
Mr. Jagannath currently serves as Chairman of the Board of HealthEdge Software. He also serves on the Board of Visitors of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering and on the Board of Directors of Centering Healthcare Institute. Mr. Jagannath was previously a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Jagannath received a B.S.E. in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering with a minor in Economics from , a J.D. from the, and an M.B.A. from the . After Duke, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Economic Development at the University of Zagreb in Croatia.
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