Mark Adams
Lead Founder & Chair
Four decades across payors, providers and integrated care in the Gulf and UK.
Consolidate. Optimise. Outperform.
Efficiency, emerging.Powered by AI.
The operating layer for diagnostics and pharmacy across the GCC.
What we do
A unified, tech-enabled healthcare ecosystem.
Iona Health builds and operates laboratory, pharmacy and innovation services across the Gulf. We partner with hospitals to turn support functions into strong, well-run assets, and we run them ourselves.
01
Diagnostics & precision medicine
Hospital laboratory partnerships alongside a centralised reference network.
02
Pharmacy & pharmaceutical services
Hospital pharmacy partnerships, centralised distribution and a direct digital channel.
03
AI & innovation
A dedicated hub bringing proven platforms and new clinical pathways into the network.
How we work
We don't advise. We invest, operate and share the upside.
Value sits inside hospitals that cannot release it alone. We take that work on, run it against agreed measures, and grow with the partner rather than around them.
Operator, not allocator
A team that has built, run and exited healthcare networks across the Gulf, the UK and the US.
No rip-and-replace
Our AI platform works inside the systems each hospital already runs, on existing infrastructure.
Proven before it scales
Innovation is validated against regulatory requirements and piloted in one setting before it moves across the network.
Team
Founder-led, with operators who have done it before.
Healthcare operations, consolidation, innovation and capital deployment across the GCC, UK and US.
Founders
Robert Paterson
Co-Founder · CEO
Healthcare, logistics and consumer platforms, with a record of commercial scaling.
Dr. Zafar Mohammed
Co-Founder · Diagnostics
Twenty-six years building and scaling laboratory networks across the region.
Mohammed Magoury
Co-Founder · Pharmacy
Pharmacy operations, procurement and clinical technology at national scale.
Ola Al Bakri
Co-Founder · Strategic Finance
Finance leadership across hospital groups, with a focus on performance and modelling.
Senior advisors
Shaun Davies
Senior Advisor · Pharmacy
Three decades in retail and pharmacy operations across the UK and the Gulf.
Prasad Raghojiwar
Senior Advisor · Innovation
Venture builder scaling technology companies across healthcare and enterprise platforms.
Get in touch
Hospitals, operators and investors.
Tell us briefly who you are and what you are looking for. We reply to every serious enquiry.
- Enquiries
- enquiries@iona.healthcare
- Partnerships and investment
- Robert Paterson, CEO
r.paterson@iona.healthcare - Office
- Iona Health FZ-LLC
Meydan Freezone, Dubai
United Arab Emirates