Manisha Bathija

Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer

Chicago, IL

Manisha Bathija has 24 years of experience in the real estate industry. She is a co-founder of Doyenne Healthcare Capital and works alongside Kristen to set the strategy of the company. Manisha leads the company’s acquisition efforts, including sourcing and originating investment opportunities, underwriting and due diligence, and transaction structuring, negotiation, and execution. She also leads the company’s disposition efforts.

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.

As a former member of the Ventas senior leadership team, Manisha was responsible for investments within the senior living portfolio. 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 Hospital & Real Estate Group at Arthur Andersen.

Manisha holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Virginia Tech.