We are a team of scientific, medical, financial, technological, and operational leaders built to serve our partners

Michael Beecham has over a decade of healthcare investment and consulting experience. He joined Petrichor as a Partner at launch. Michael is responsible for investment in companies across the healthcare and life science ecosystem, from investment origination, management and strategic exit. Michael is currently on the boards of Ascend Gene and Cell Therapy, Fennec Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: FENC) and Leukocare AG. Previously, He participated on the boards of Cryoport (Nasdaq: CYRX) and Clearpoint (Nasdaq: CLPT), both successful, fully-realized exits.

Prior to Petrichor, Michael was at OrbiMed, working with Tadd and Patrick on the healthcare special situations and structured finance team. Additionally, he was an investment manager at Vatera Healthcare Partners, where he was responsible for sourcing and managing life science investments across preclinical through commercial stage, both public and private. Prior to that, Michael was at American Capital on the healthcare leveraged buyouts team (now part of Ares). He was also previously at Royalty Pharma (Nasdaq: RPRX) and Navigant Consulting (previously Easton Associates).

Michael has a B.S.E. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.