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Shahram Hejazi is President of the Molecular Imaging Systems (MIS) business for Carestream Health, Inc., the standalone company that resulted from the sale of Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group to Onex Corporation, Toronto, Canada, in May 2007. (MIS was part of the Health Group.)
Hejazi is responsible for global R&D, manufacturing, operations, marketing, sales and service for the entire MIS unit, which comprises a film business, system business and imaging agent business.
Among his achievements, Hejazi led the system business to double-digit growth and directed the launch of the newly established imaging agent business. These achievements have helped position MIS as one of the top two optical molecular imaging businesses worldwide, providing life-science customers with complete in vitro and in vivo imaging solutions.
Before joining MIS, Hejazi was President and Chief Executive Officer of Zargis Medical Corp., an early-stage medical system company spun off from Siemens, which he successfully led from concept to revenue-generation.
Prior to Zargis, Hejazi led Siemen's Strategic Business Development group, with responsibility for identifying early-stage growth/investment opportunities and new business development in the medical and healthcare information technology (IT) market. In this role, he initiated several new and successful business programs in the areas of diagnostic decision-support systems, biotechnology, molecular imaging and healthcare IT. He also was instrumental in establishing a number of corporate venture programs at Siemens.
Earlier in his career, Hejazi held management positions with Kodak's former Health Group; worked in research and development at IBM Corporation; and spent several years launching new products at two startup companies.
Hejazi holds six patents and has authored more than 10 professional publications. He has executive business training at Stanford Business School and at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Hezaji holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in biophysics from State University of New York at Buffalo. | 