Bio

Jia-Yi is a Partner at Cathay Health based in London, where she focuses on tech bio investments across life science tools, diagnostics, medtech and digital health. She serves on the board at Ascend Gene and Cell Therapies. With nearly two decades of experience, Jia-Yi has a multidisciplinary background encompassing investments, venture building, business management, and academic research. Before joining Cathay, she was responsible for healthcare and pharma services, medtech, and healthcare IT investments at Partners Group, where she participated in over 20 transactions. Earlier in her career, Jia-Yi led the Asia Pacific Imaging Software business at Philips Healthcare and successfully built, scaled, and exited early-stage health tech ventures. During her academic career, she published her work in the fields of microbial genetics and biophysics in several peer-reviewed scientific journals. She earned her MSc in Civil & Environmental Engineering from MIT, where she was a recipient of the Schoettler and Linden Earth System Fellowships.