Sam Zebarjadi
Healthcare & AI Operator | 3x Founder + CEO | ex-Amazon & Moderna
Co-Founder at Merit.ai · Atlanta, Georgia
Open to advisory
Customer acquisition · Product · Leadership & Strategy
I’ve been on both sides of the table, both as a founder and healthcare executive. Happy to help digital health, pharma, biotech & AI founders with product, GTM, enterprise sales, partnerships and scaling.
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About Sam
Co-Founder of Merit.ai, Co-Founder & CEO of Medicast (acquired by Providence St. Joseph Health), Mentor at 500 Startups, Techstars Alumni+Mentor, advisor to several startups, angel investor.
Current focus is on consumer/digital healthcare and innovations disrupting the $1 trillion patient care space.
Mobile and social technology junkie, strategist, and interested in services that bring people closer together.
Been featured and interviewed as a subject matter expert in mobile technology and healthcare reform in numerous media outlets including CNN Headline News, NPR, USA Today, and the Glenn Beck Radio Network.
Past experience: Chief Architect at Nokia, Vodafone, Sprint-Nextel, JPMorgan Chase, various startups.
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Mentor
Medicast (Acquired by Providence)
Co-Founder & CEO Scaled one of the first on-demand healthcare platforms from concept through acquisition by Providence (where I subsequently led as Head of Business Development for all digital platforms and products). Led product, GTM, technology, operations, fundraising, and partnerships while expanding across four U.S. markets.
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Co-Founder
Amazon
Digital Health & Business Development Leader Early member of Amazon’s healthcare team, helping shape product, market, and partnership strategy for new healthcare businesses including Amazon Care and Amazon Clinic. Worked across product, technology, commercial, and healthcare partners to take new concepts from strategy toward market.
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Mentor & Alum
Moderna
VP, Head of Commercial Product & Innovation Led Moderna’s global commercial digital product organization and 30+ product portfolio across AI, eCommerce, HCP engagement, CRM, and data platforms supporting $2B+ in commercial operations across 25+ countries. Built teams, launched new products, and scaled digital platforms through rapid growth and transformation.
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Co-Founder & CEO
Endeavor Health
VP, Digital Health, Innovation & Strategy Served as the health system’s first digital health and transformation executive, building the function from the ground up. Led digital strategy, product innovation and strategic partnerships, working directly with executive leadership and the Board to scale new models of care and digital health capabilities.
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Chief Architect
Techstars
Mentor to founders across multiple Techstars accelerator programs for 10+ years, primarily in healthcare, digital health, and technology. Advise founders on product strategy, GTM, enterprise sales, partnerships, fundraising, and navigating the transition from idea to scalable business.
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Chief Architect
Merit.ai
Co-Founder & CEO Co-founded an AI healthcare startup that built an early conversational AI platform for medical practices, integrating voice, text and chat with EMR workflows. Led product, GTM, partnerships and company strategy, with deployments reducing clinic call volumes by 40%.
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Digital Health & Business Development Leader
Amazon
Shaped digital health product and GTM strategy for stealth initiatives, contributing to the launch of Amazon Care and Amazon Clinic.
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Vice President of Digital Health, Innovation, and Strategy
NorthShore University HealthSystem
Built the digital function from scratch across 9 hospitals, scaling telehealth coverage to 99% across specialties during COVID.
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Vice President, Head of Commercial Product & Innovation
Moderna
Led a 30+ product portfolio across AI, eCommerce, and HCP engagement supporting $2B in global commercial operations across 25+ countries.
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Vice President, Health System Partnerships
IKS Health
Leads business development, partnerships, and AI-enabled workflow solutions with health systems and academic medical centers.
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Co-Founder & CEO
Medicast (acquired by Providence Health)
Co-founded and scaled an on-demand healthcare platform across four US cities through its acquisition by Providence Health in 2016.