Rafael Torres had spent 14 years leading the healthcare investing teams at GE Equity and GE Ventures up to 2015.

Rafael Torres, former head of healthcare investing for industrial and power technology producer General Electric’s GE Ventures unit, has joined US-based investment firm Altaris Capital Partners as a managing director.

Torres was previously operating partner at Altaris having joined in May 2021 after the sale of New York-listed oncology technology provider Varian Medical Systems, where he had been head of corporate development and strategy, to Siemens Healthineers for $16.4bn.

Before joining Varian in 2015, Torres spent 14 years at General…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.