Jeff Ries, MBA
Managing Director, Healthbox
Bio
Jeff Ries manages the DaVita Venture Fund on behalf of Healthbox. Previously, he led the Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund where he led investments in Zebra Medical Vision, Syapse, Sera Prognostics and Collective Medical Technologies. Jeff was formerly at Oxeon Partners where he focused on building and investing in healthcare companies. He was also an investor at Sandbox Industries where he helped manage BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners. While at Sandbox, Jeff started several tech-enabled startups and helped raise capital for Cultivian Sandbox, an agriculture-technology venture fund. He began his career at LaSalle Investment Management, a private equity firm with $50B AUM.
Jeff resides in New York City and received his BA in Economics from Northwestern University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.