Gabrielle Rush
Gabrielle focuses on seed to late-stage venture investments in the consumer internet space with an emphasis on marketplaces, SaaS, fintech, and digital commerce. Before joining Norwest, Gabrielle was a growth investor on the Consumer & Internet team at TPG Growth. Prior to that, she worked at Credit Suisse as an Investment Banking Analyst in the […]
Sam Lesser
Sam focuses on venture opportunities in the healthcare sector, including digital health and healthcare IT, technology-enabled healthcare services, and medical devices. Prior to joining Norwest, Sam was with Bain & Company where he worked on projects across healthcare private equity, hardware, and artificial intelligence. Sam graduated from Colombia University.
Bayan Alizadeh
Bayan focuses on early to late-stage venture investments across a wide range of sectors at Norwest, with an emphasis on the enterprise and infrastructure spaces. Prior to joining Norwest, Bayan was an analyst in the technology investment banking group at Morgan Stanley in Menlo Park where he worked on a variety of transactions including the […]
Umang Sanghvi
Umang focuses on early-stage and growth equity investments in Indian companies across a wide range of sectors. Prior to joining Norwest, Umang was part of Mirae Asset’s Venture Capital (global growth equity fund with an AUM of ~$3bn) where he worked across sectors such as Enterprise Software, Logistics and Fintech. Prior to Mirae, he worked […]
Irem Rami

Irem brings over a decade of investing and operating experience across various stages of healthcare services and healthcare technology companies. At Norwest, she focuses on venture and growth equity opportunities across healthcare services, healthcare IT, pharma services and digital health. Prior to joining Norwest, Irem worked at Summit Partners where she focused on healthcare growth […]