Steve Phillips

Group Vice President, Strategy and Innovation
DaVita

Steve oversees DaVita Venture Group and has responsibility for managing the portfolio of DaVita’s innovation efforts and investments. He has focused his career on health care strategy and has experience driving growth and innovation within large health plans and providers. Prior to leading DaVita Venture Group, he focused on DaVita’s enterprise strategy.

Steve’s team manages an investment portfolio of ~$400M and has invested in companies that support access to care for patients with chronic conditions. Recent DaVita Venture Group investments include:

• A software platform that enables broader access to transplants for patients with kidney disease and streamlines the patient intake process for transplant centers
• A digital solution that supports patients in remaining adherent to complex care plans
• A platform that enables care coordination across multiple healthcare providers using different IT systems
• A company providing virtual cardiology appointments for patients struggling to get access to care in an area with limited capacity

Before joining DaVita, Steve was a health care strategy consultant. He has an undergraduate degree from Lafayette College and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.