Steve Hochberg

Steve Hochberg has been a founder, manager, and investor in HealthTech and Healthcare companies for more than thirty years – his first company was Physicians' Online which was formed in 1991. Since 2013, Steve has been a Partner at Deerfield Management, where he has worked on structured transactions in Deerfield’s Private Funds focused on seed, growth and late stage investments in MedTech, HealthTech, and Services companies. Beginning in 2017, he launched Deerfield's first SPAC which led to the creation of AHCO. In 2018 and 2021, he co-led the launch of the firm's two Health/MedTech incubators with leading industry entrepreneurs and strategic partners.

Prior to Deerfield, Steve co-founded and co-managed Ascent Biomedical Ventures (2004) focused on early stage investment and development of biomedical companies. Steve is a founding Board Member of SLR Capital, a $8B family of BDCs (Business Development Corporations). In 2011, Steve became the Chairman of the Board of Continuum Health Partners and led its merger with Mount Sinai in 2013, where he is now a Vice Chairman of the Board of the Mount Sinai Health System, a non-profit healthcare integrated delivery system in New York City with over $7 billion in annual revenues. Steve is also a Board Member of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Business Administration and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.