Simon J. Samaha, MD, is a physician executive and entrepreneur who has led on both the provider and advisory sides of healthcare. He is CEO of HEAPS.ai (since 2021) and co-founder of Kentan Staffing Solutions (since 2018).

Dr. Samaha joined The Cooper Health System in 1993 as an internal medicine intern and worked as a hospitalist, launching one of the first commercial hospitalist models. Over the next fifteen years he became Cooper’s Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Acting Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President of Clinical Operations and, from 2006 to 2008, Chief Medical Officer. From 2008 to 2012 he was President and CEO of Summit Medical Group, one of New Jersey’s largest multispecialty groups, with 225 physicians and more than $200 million in revenue. He then spent more than four years as a Principal in PwC’s U.S. strategy practice and later served as CEO of tricenna.

He holds an MD from Saint Joseph University in Beirut, an MS in Information Science from Drexel University and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.