In today’s world, the Health-Tech industry is going through significant changes. The landscape is very dynamic and rapidly evolving. We envision Health-Tech as leveraging technology and innovation to create efficiency, efficacy, and affordability for the five major constituents of healthcare offerings — patients, physicians, payers, healthcare systems/infrastructure and pharmaceuticals/therapeutics.

We at WCP, combine investment banking experience with industry expertise. The Health-Tech team’s main areas of focus include:

Digital Health: Emphasizes domains such as tele-health, remote patient monitoring, wearables, computer vision, and data analytics;
Life Sciences and Diagnostics: Focuses on life sciences tools as well as remote/portable diagnostics, genomics, next generation digital therapeutics, and technologies catalyzing drug discovery and development.

With our in-depth industry knowledge and transaction experience, we help our clients to identify the best strategic options and create ideal deal structures for:

Capital Raise
Strategic Partnerships
Sell-side and Buy-side M&A

Asli Aras, Ph.D.

Managing Director
Life Sciences and Diagnostics

Asli Aras has held senior leadership roles in Strategy and Corporate Development teams of major global corporations and has 17 years of strategic planning, corporate development, mergers & acquisitions experience. Asli holds a PH.D. and MSc in finance. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics.

Juliesta Sylvester, Ph.D.

Executive Director
Molecular and Data Analytics

Juliesta is an Executive Director at Woodside Capital Partners, where she is part of the Health-tech team.

Prior to joining WCP, Juliesta was Head of the Global Data and Innovation divisions at Diaceutics, where she built, priced, and brought to market a suite of data products and analytical services that transformed the privately-owned consulting company into a publicly traded technology company on the LSE.

Vini Jolly

Executive Director
Digital Health

Vini Jolly leads Woodside Capital’s digital health practice. She has over 20 years’ experience in operating roles across a variety of industries, from networking and digital health to pharmaceuticals and genomics.
Vini brings deep experience in corporate finance transactions across the digital health sector.

Reports & News

The team lives and breathes technology. We stay on top of emerging technology trends through constant engagement with leading startups, corporations, strategic investors, and health tech-focused venture capital and private equity firms.

The WCP Health-TechTeam brings together decades of relevant experience across M&A, early-stage investments, business and corporate development, product management. Our combination of startup, corporate, science, and technology experience makes the WCP Health-Tech team unique.