Manisha Bathija

Founder & Managing Partner 

Chicago, IL

Manisha Bathija has 25 years of experience in the real estate industry. She has completed over $60B of mergers & acquisitions and asset sales and $15B of capital markets transactions. She has executed transactions ranging from $500,000 to multi-billion dollar deals throughout all segments of healthcare real estate, including seniors housing, skilled nursing, long-term care, hospitals and medical office.

Prior to co-founding Doyenne Healthcare Capital, Manisha served as Senior Investment Officer for Ventas, Inc., an S&P 500 company and real estate investment trust that owns a diversified portfolio of senior living communities, life science, research & innovation properties, medical office & outpatient facilities, hospitals, and other healthcare real estate in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Manisha was a member of the senior leadership team at Ventas for nine years.  She was responsible for investments within the senior living portfolio and asset sales across the Company. Manisha joined Ventas in 2011 and helped grow the senior living portfolio from $11 billion to over $18 billion through acquisitions and developments. Responsible for originating, negotiating and executing acquisitions and development opportunities, Manisha was involved in more than $2 billion completed real estate transactions during her tenure at Ventas. She also built an asset sales platform and executed over $2 billion in asset sales.

Prior to Ventas, Manisha served in a variety of roles with increasing responsibility in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She focused on building relationships and executing transactions with healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) and senior housing, skilled nursing and healthcare operating companies. She also spent four years as an auditor in the Hospitality & Real Estate Group at Arthur Andersen.

Manisha received her MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with emphases on Finance and Strategy and holds a Bachelor of Science in in Accounting and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Virginia Tech.  She is a Certified Public Accountant.