Shez Partovi

Shez Partovi is Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer of Royal Philips, a position he has held since July 2021, and Business Leader Enterprise Informatics of Royal Philips, a position he held since April 2023. 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 in the healthcare, life sciences and genomics industry. He brings deep healthcare and informatics experience to Philips, which will be highly relevant as Philips accelerates the transition to becoming a solutions leader, leveraging deep clinical insights and big data analytics. Shez leads the company's global Innovation & Strategy organization and the Enterprise Informatics Business. Innovation & Strategy, in collaboration with the operating businesses and the markets, is responsible for directing the company strategy to delight our customers and advance our growth and profitability ambitions. 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.