Dr. Syed Shaheen Ali Shihab
Founding Director
The people behind Zamara
Leaders Who Have Built, Scaled and Delivered.
Zamara is not the beginning of the leadership team's healthcare journey. It is the next chapter.
Before embarking on Zamara, the leadership team had already built and successfully scaled four hospitals, bringing practical experience in healthcare operations, institutional growth and hospital management. Led by Dr. Shahul Hameed CP, a healthcare veteran with two decades of experience, the team combines deep industry knowledge with the ambition to build a new-generation tertiary care institution for Malabar.
With leaders bringing years of experience in running and scaling hospitals, Zamara is founded on more than a vision.
Experience that precedes ambition
Knowing What It Takes to Build a Hospital.
Building a hospital requires more than capital and infrastructure. It demands clinical understanding, operational discipline, the ability to build teams, and the experience to scale services while maintaining patient trust. Zamara's leadership brings these capabilities from direct experience in the healthcare sector.
- 4 Hospitals
A proven track record of scaling healthcare institutions
Before Zamara, the leadership team had already successfully scaled four hospitals, bringing practical insight into the challenges of growing healthcare operations.
- 20 Years
Veteran healthcare leadership
Dr. Shahul Hameed CP brings two decades of healthcare experience, providing institutional knowledge and leadership to Zamara's development.
- 5+ Years
Hands-on hospital management experience
The wider leadership team brings over five years of experience running and scaling hospitals, combining operational knowledge with an ambition for further growth.
Founding directors
Doctor-led from day one
Dr. Shahul Hameed CP
Founding Director
Dr. Muhammed Rafi PM
Founding Director
Dr. Ajmal P
Founding Director
Directors
Clinical ownership · local accountability
Dr. Mueenudheen CP
Director
Dr. Muhammed Faisel
Director
Dr. Muhammed Shafi C
Director
Advisory team
Anil S. Nair
Healthcare Consultant
Biomedical Engineer, MBA
Twenty-one years standardising clinical infrastructure across 17 hospitals, including Narayana Hrudayalaya and Columbia Asia. Project delivery, operations consulting, equipment commissioning and workflow design across the Malabar hospital belt.
Muhammed Hashir
Management Consultant
MBA, IIM Nagpur
Strategy and transformation across healthcare, pharma, real estate and financial services. At Ernst & Young, Axtria and HLB Hamt, led IT strategy and operational excellence engagements across $20M+ portfolios.