Advisory Board Member
Shahriyar Rahmati serves as an Advisor and Board Member at Avicenna Cardiology, where he brings his background in healthcare operations, investing and strategy to support the growth and operational excellence of our team. He has an extensive background in multi-location healthcare, digital commerce, and global operations. In addition, he has executed transactions in excess of $3billion in an principal capacity.
His past healthcare operations experiences include:
Board Membership, and Interim CFO and COO at IMC Health, now CareMax, where he was a Managing Director of the Private Equity firm that purchased, grew, and sold the business through a public market transaction. IMC Health operated a group of twenty FL-based primary care locations that ultimately grew to over fifty through organic growth and acquisition prior to its public offering. Supported the onboarding of an excellent CEO who came to the business who enabled its ultimate success.
Led Non-Clinical Operations for Bright Now Dental, a DSO that provides services to approximately 700 dental offices across the United States. During his time at Bright Now, he created a centralized operation that drove revenue cycle, patient scheduling, and overall capacity utilization improvements. He also built the company’s first analytical data store, enabling analysis previously unavailable to the business which drove care, operational and financial benefits at scale. Worked with a visionary CEO who brought a new standard of leadership to the industry.
Advisor to D&S Community Services, a TX-based behavioral health group focused on residential facility-based care, migrating individuals from institutional care facilities to those where outcomes were greatly improved. These centers focused on IDD behavioral health populations. Supported a teamwork-oriented management team that went through multiple transitions prior to our exit of the investment.
In addition to the above, Shahriyar has expertise in the following areas:
- Board Member of Neovia, a global Logistics business with over 10,000 employees
- Board Member of Reconext, a global Electronics business with over 3,500 employees
- COO and CFO of a publicly traded e-commerce business with clients across a variety of industries
- COO of a home-décor e-commerce business that he ran and was sold to a large private equity firm for an amount in excess of $900m.
- Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Operations for a $9 billion (Assets under Management) Private Equity firm (Comvest Partners)
- Held senior roles at Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies, operating and investing within the US and Europe over the course of his career
- Private Equity: TPG Capital, Graham Partners, Gores Group, Comvest Partners
- Selected Portfolio Companies: Unify, Hovis Ltd., Elo Touch Solutions, etc.
Academic Background:
MBA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BA: New York University
