Austin Deer

Head of Strategic Partnerships, National Accounts

Austin Deer has spent 15 years closing deals that other people said were too complicated, too competitive, or too big.

At openDoctor, he drove 450 percent growth in new enterprise clients and 480 percent growth in contracted revenue, expanded the customer base fourfold, and closed the largest radiology practice in the United States with a $6.3 million minimum SaaS agreement. He also built strategic reseller relationships with IBM Watson Health and Philips Healthcare. At GoTelecare, he scaled national telehealth operations, built and trained a 30-person inside sales team, and secured long-term enterprise agreements with managed care organizations and rural hospital systems. He started his enterprise SaaS career at Zocdoc, earned top sales honors, and helped launch new markets. The pattern across all of it is consistent: he finds the biggest opportunity in the room and figures out how to close it.

At Ferrum, Austin supports Regional Sales Directors in enterprise deal creation and strategy across national and strategic health system accounts. He leads executive engagement and complex sales execution with the largest health systems in the country, connecting clinical AI governance to the operational and financial priorities that matter most to enterprise buyers. His goal is straightforward: make Ferrum the clear industry leader in clinical AI governance across the US.

Outside of work, Austin is devoted to his family, his wife Joell and daughter Jiselle, and is involved in community impact. He plays golf, follows the Chicago Bears, and is a proud graduate of Fisher High School, home of the Bunnies. It has been named the worst mascot in America. He owns this completely.