Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics
Shez Partovi
Current role: Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics Since: July 1, 2021 Graduated: McGill University, Montreal
Nationality: Canadian
Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics
Shez Partovi
Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics at Royal Philips
Shez is an experienced clinical professor, neuroradiologist, global executive and entrepreneur with a track record of leading large health systems, cloud transformation, and artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives in the healthcare, life sciences and genomics industries.
Since 2021, Shez has led Philips’ global Innovation & Design organization. In collaboration with the operating businesses, he is responsible for creating enterprise-wide strategies to deliver people- and patient-centric innovation, at scale. Shez and his teams raise the bar of innovation across the company and provide world-class capabilities and platforms to enable innovations that improve people’s health and healthcare outcomes, as well as making care more accessible, convenient, and sustainable.
Shez also leads the Enterprise Informatics business at Philips, established in 2023. Enterprise Informatics combines Philips software and hardware solutions to empower healthcare leaders and care providers with the actionable insights they need to make informed decisions, optimize workflows and operations, and deliver high-quality care to improve patient outcomes. Shez and his informatics teams advance the mission of Philips as a world leader and trusted partner in integrated diagnostics, scaling insights & analytics.
Shez joined Philips from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he served as Worldwide Head of Business Development for Healthcare, Life Sciences and Medical Devices. In that role, he was responsible for the global AWS go-to-market strategy, charting the path for customer cloud transformation, and the adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Prior to joining AWS in 2018, Shez spent 20 years at Dignity Health, the fifth largest health system in the U.S. He started his career in 1998 as a neuroradiologist at the Barrow Neurological Institute and was in clinical practice until 2013. In addition to his medical training at McGill University in Montreal, he has post-graduate qualifications in computer science. Shez has a passion for learning and teaching. He helped launch the Biomedical Informatics Department at Arizona State University and taught there as a clinical professor for three years.
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Current role: Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Business Leader of Enterprise Informatics Since: July 1, 2021 Graduated: McGill University, Montreal
Nationality: Canadian
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