Meet The Team
Ozman Mohiuddin
Founder and CEO
Oz is a technology leader and a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in fortune 500 companies in software and healthcare diagnostics industries. He has held several leadership positions in product management and business development at Microsoft before starting his journey as a serial entrepreneur. He started two technology startups with successful exits before taking over SDI Labs.
Alexandra Sabbag
CMO
Alexandra comes to SDI Labs from AM Consultants Group, a communications consultancy she founded in 2010. She brings 15 years of marketing and communications experience to SDI Labs, leveraging thoughtful marketing strategies and the art of storytelling to strengthen both an organization’s mission and its bottom line.
Ron Calhoun
Chief Business Development Strategist
Ron Calhoun is a healthcare risk consulting leader who has centered his expertise on developing ways to provide unique data-driven analytics, advisory, and related services to help providers, payers, and employers transform current payment and recovery methodologies while preparing for value-based payment models.
David Haase, MD
Chief Medical Strategist
David Haase, MD, is a Vanderbilt and Mayo Clinic trained, double board-certified physician who founded the MaxWell Clinic in Nashville, TN, in 2003. There he practices personalized systems medicine to investigate and address the underlying causes of chronic disease. He is faculty for The Institute for Functional Medicine, leading the mitochondrial function curriculum, and is a regular lecturer for the Stanford Graduate School of Bioengineering.
Dr. Brian T. Sutch
VP of Technology Product Management
Dr. Sutch received his Ph. D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Southern California and BS in Biotechnology from Cal Poly Pomona. He has expertise in biopharmaceutics, in-silico drug design, cheminformatics, bioinformatics and software application development. Dr. Sutch is particularly interested in the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence toward the development of new diagnostics and therapeutics, and leveraging data to deliver improved healthcare outcomes.
Shanna Waer
General Manager
Shanna has over 15 years of experience in human resources, payroll, staffing and compliance. She loves to know how everything works at an organization and always seeks opportunities to increase production by evaluating current practices to find new ways a process can be made simpler. She wants her staff to work smarter, not harder to achieve the ultimate goal of being successful.
Lab Science Team
Mo Ali
VP of Lab Operations
Technology enthusiast with hands-on experience, Mohammad has a strong record of success in creating robust IT architectures and infrastructures. He has a proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing costs and risks. Mohammad provides strategic direction to executive management on technology, and brings to SDI Labs a dynamic management career with strong leadership, problem-solving, planning, team building, and project management skills. He has extensive experience in recruiting, developing, motivating and retaining diverse staff, structuring them in teams that deliver results.
Dr. Sajo Bejaj
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Bejaj is a board certified in molecular pathology and genetics bio analyst. Dr. Bejaj is also an academic who taught at various institutions and published textbooks and journals on varied clinical topics. Dr. Bejaj, served as an initial management team and technical director for several well-known US laboratories including PathGroup, DCL Medical Laboratories, and Pathology, Inc, He is currently serving as an off-side CLIA laboratory director for BioCorp Clinical Laboratory and Specialty Diagnostics Inc, Garden Grove, CA.
Dr. Michael Murphy
Senior Lab Scientist
Dr. Michael Murphy brings more than 35 years of laboratory experience to SDI Labs. He has extensive experience in the management and direction of technical, scientific and operational elements within clinical diagnostic, commercial reference, CRO, global central and research laboratories. His areas of expertise include biomarker validation and standardization, quality assurance, laboratory operations, informatics and laboratory automation. Dr. Murphy received his B.S. from Xavier University and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (DABCC).
Dr. Stephenson Chea
Senior Lab Scientist
Stephenson has years of experience in the management and technical development of clinical diagnostic laboratories. In addition, because of his background in developmental genetics and years of academic research, he has made significant contributions to the study of the cellular and transcriptomic origins of congenital heart defects, the leading cause of birth defects associated with infant death in the United States. In his free time, he enjoys reading philosophical literature, particularly in the field of epistemology (how do we know what we know) as applied to naturalism and empiricism.
Dr. M. Ashmaig, Ph. D.
Senior Lab Scientist
Dr. Ashmaig has decades of deep experience in laboratory sciences in management roles. Dr. Ashmaig is a patent (9857385. 11) owner of discovery and clinical use of Ultra-small apoB-containing particles. His patents covers an isolated particle comprising very high density ultra-small, lipid depleted apo B containing particles, and may also contain cytokeratin 8. Dr. Ashmaig also has extensive experience in starting laboratories and establishing process, teams and training curriculum.