Alumni Insights with Veneeth Iyengar - (Healthcare Network)

Veneeth Iyengar is currently Assistant Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Baton Rouge/East Baton Rouge Parish. He directly works with Mayor-President Broome on executing her mission of quality service, innovation and efficiency in partnership with the citizens of the city/parish of East Baton Rouge. Veneeth is the lead City/Parish executive from the Mayor’s Office to the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. 2019 resulted in the best year in history for Economic Development projects in the parish in terms of Capex, projects secured and diversity of projects – his role includes outreach to CEO’s and executives from leading tech, pharma and healthcare companies throughout the country and is involved intimately in the sales cycle of economic development deals. Further, Veneeth has been tasked with addressing healthcare challenges that exist in the Baton Rouge market by focusing on structuring and executing public/private partnerships with the Healthcare Venture Capital/Private Equity Community and working with their portfolio companies to address the social determinants of health. Through this approach, he has delivered results such as the reopening of a shuttered large medical office building in an area of disinvestment that will employ over 100 people in areas of primary care, behavioral health etc. Recently, he was asked by Governor John Bel Edwards to Co-Chair his Resilient La. Healthcare Task Force which included the CEO’s of Ochsner, BCBS La, Franciscan Health System and Executives from the leading healthcare providers in the state. Through this task-force, he led the creation of a report that provider recommendations that were focused on how to create an innovative healthcare economy given the challenges faced during the pandemic. He was awarded by the Director of the US Peace Corps the prestigious Franklin Williams Award (only 101 have been awarded since 1999) which honors outstanding returned volunteers who best exemplify the best of those who have made large impacts abroad and the US. In addition, he was named a 2018 40 under 40 in Baton Rouge by the Baton Rouge Business Report, named a 2020 Leadership Louisiana Recipient by the Council for Better Louisiana, elected on the Board of the Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation in 2019 was named Chairman for Innovation Catalyst, an evergreen investment fund in 2019. He received his Masters in Science -Finance from Johns Hopkins University and his Bachelors in Science in Economics from Purdue University. Veneeth grew up in Baton Rouge and is a proud Louisianan.

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Audience for this event: All Carey Students and Alumni