With over $1B invested in healthcare, Julia is the founder of PACE Healthcare Capital, an early-stage investment fund focused on healthcare tech and digital health businesses. Daughter of entrepreneurs, she is passionate about building successful businesses solving critical issues in healthcare. Before starting PACE, Julia was a Director at CDPQ, Canada’s second largest pension plan with over $275B of AUM, where she co-led direct private equity investments in the healthcare sector in North America and LATAM. Prior to joining CDPQ, Julia was a partner at Blue Hill Capital Ventures, providing consulting services to PE funds and their healthcare portfolio companies, and also worked at Monitor Clipper Partners (“MCP”), a $2B mid-market PE fund investing in founder-led businesses in North America and Europe. Julia started her career at Merrill Lynch, in Leveraged Finance and then Healthcare M&A.

Julia holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was the recipient of the Marguerite Carriere fellowship and A.L. Littauer award. She also earned a Masters in Management from ESCP Europe.

Representative investments: Team Health (Board Director), Eurofins (PIPE), MyEyeDr. (Board Observer), CMC Biologics (Board Observer), Higher Education Partner (Board Director), AMOpportunities (Board Observer).