Desney Tan

Mr. Tan is the Managing Director of Microsoft Healthcare and a seasoned executive who has built and run multidisciplinary global innovation teams – leveraging expertise in hardware and devices, applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as human-computer interaction to make an impact in areas such as autonomous navigation, entertainment, and consumer products, as well as health and life sciences. At Microsoft, Tan is currently responsible for developing health data infrastructure, delivering AI-based healthcare solutions, and creating relevant new medical data through novel devices and multi-omics technologies. Tan also serves as an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His expertise aligns closely with the mission of IntuitiveX to help entrepreneurs overcome the many obstacles innate to healthcare commercialization.