Ken Deemer, Los Angeles SVP

Ken Deemer is a founding partner and Chairman of Los Angeles Social Venture Partners. He was also a co-founder and former Chairman and President of the Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest and most active angel investor groups in the country.

Mr. Deemer is an active private investor and has over twenty years of venture capital experience as a General Partner of InterVen Partners, a firm that he co-founded in 1985. He has invested in and served on the boards of numerous early-stage companies in technology, manufacturing and specialty retailing. He also served for fourteen years on the board of Cymer, Inc. (Nasdaq CYMI). Earlier in his career, he was a co-founder of a direct marketing company, My Favorite Charities, marketing manager of a computer peripherals company and a systems engineer with Hughes Aircraft Company.

Mr. Deemer holds BS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA, with distinction, from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a Certified Director by the Directors Institute at UCLA. Mr. Deemer is married. His wife, Candy, is an author and management consultant. They have three sons. Mr. Deemer and his family recently spent a year living outside of Barcelona, Spain.