Joseph Kiani

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Dr. Joseph Kiani is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Director at Like Minded Media Ventures. He is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Masimo. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and President at Cercacor Laboratories. He also served as Board Member at Bioniz Therapeutics and Medical Device Manufacturers Association. He also previously served as Product Engineer at Unisys Corporation, a computer manufacturer. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Saba Software, a publicly-traded software company focused on human capital development and management solutions and chairman of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA). He holds a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from San Diego State University. He has ultimate oversight of the company's marketing, product development, staffing and other key functions. He founded Masimo in 1989 to improve the reliability of noninvasive patient monitoring. His vision first led Cercacor to bring the same technology it licenses to Masimo for use in hospitals worldwide to consumers via Ember - the world's first non-invasive hemoglobin tracker for athletes. At his core, he is an inventor of world-changing, noninvasive patient-monitoring devices and a trusted voice for patient safety and care. Under his leadership, Masimo has grown from a "garage start-up" into a successful, publicly-traded company (NASDAQ: MASI) employing more than 3,500 people worldwide. Masimo provides its market-leading Masimo SET Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry technology to leading patient-monitoring manufacturers throughout the world. Today, Masimo delivers key, noninvasive medical breakthroughs, including Rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry - the first blood constituent monitoring platform to noninvasively measure multiple blood constituents. Rainbow Pulse CO-Oximetry™ incorporates Cercacor technologies to noninvasively measure carbon monoxide, methemoglobin and hemoglobin. In 2012, he founded the nonprofit Patient Safety Movement Foundation to help eliminate the 200,000-400,000 annual, preventable patient deaths in U.S. hospitals. The Foundation's yearly Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit brings together many of the world's leading clinicians, hospital CEOs, patient advocates and government leaders to identify challenges and provide tested solutions called Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS). The Foundation publicly committed to the goal of zero preventable patient deaths by 2020 at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2013. The Foundation requested that attendees also make a formal and public patient safety commitment and report on it annually. To date, 1,200 hospitals have made a commitment. he also serves on the board of directors of Children's Hospital Orange County (CHOC).