Bob Saunders is a General Partner at OCA Ventures who has spent three decades building healthcare startup ecosystems through roles like co-founding XLerateHealth, one of the longest-running healthcare-only accelerators in the US, and serving as a founding board member of the University of Louisville's life sciences incubator. His combination of Marshall and Fulbright Scholar credentials with economics and policy training from Stanford, LSE, and Harvard gives him an unusually global academic background for a US early-stage healthcare investor, while his base in Chicago allows him to connect Midwestern and Southeastern health systems with institutional venture capital. Bob Saunders is a General Partner at OCA Ventures who has spent three decades building healthcare startup ecosystems through roles like co-founding XLerateHealth, one of the longest-running healthcare-only accelerators in the US, and serving as a founding board member of the University of Louisville's life sciences incubator. His combination of Marshall and Fulbright Scholar credentials with economics and policy training from Stanford, LSE, and Harvard gives him an unusually global academic background for a US early-stage healthcare investor, while his base in Chicago allows him to connect Midwestern and Southeastern health systems with institutional venture capital.