• M.B.A. 2013, Harvard Business School
• Product Creation and Innovation for Manufacturing, 2008, Stanford University
•  B.S., 2006, Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Founder and Managing Partner of DMEM & Co

Diana Maichin is currently Founder and Managing Partner of DMEM & Co, helping entrepreneurs elevate their companies through experienced business creation, operation, and advisory. She has 20+ years’ experience as an entrepreneurial financier and operator with domain knowledge in biotech, diagnostics, health-tech, and fintech. Diana has incubated five companies which subsequently raised over $150M in venture capital financing and was co-founding COO of three. Three of the five companies exited via M&A or tuck-in; two have raised subsequent rounds of financing.

Since founding her fractional executive practice, Diana has held over a dozen Fractional COO, CFO, and CBO positions for Seed, Series A, and Series B stage companies, involving company formation, fundraising, business strategy, operations, and financial management. 

Earlier in her career, Diana gained P&L management experience of $100M+ and was Codexis’ first direct report to the CFO imminently after its IPO. Diana also has familiarity with the factory floor, both at Genentech and Rohm and Haas (now Dow Chemical Company), where she was a chemical engineer.

Diana resides in Alicante, Spain, where she relocated in 2023 from San Francisco, CA. She is a black-diamond snowboarder and loves traveling to taste the coffee, wine, and cheese of the world with her life explorer, Julian.