Michael Deem is an experienced senior professional who has operated in senior management, Board, and advisor capacities with companies ranging from start-up, to rapid growth, to large multi-national companies. Deem is currently a General Partner at SmartHealth Catalyzer and a CEO of a startup. Michael W Deem


His intellectual bandwidth has benefited companies from a wide cross section of industries that include Life Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Genomics, Data Science, Biotechnology, Energy, and Cancer Research.

From 2021-2022 Deem was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures. Michael Deem was previously the chair of Bioengineering at Rice University. Deem started his academic career as an Assistant and Associate Professor at UCLA.