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Founded in 1905, PACCAR is a global technology company in the design, manufacture and customer support of high-quality light, medium and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF nameplates. It also provides financial services and information technology and distributes truck parts related to its principal business. PACCAR shares are traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Experienced President and CEO who, for many years led the nation’s largest provider of post acute car. A company with revenue of over 3B and greater than 45,000 employees across 43 states. Prior to that, a long and successful history in the pharmaceutical industry where he served in Senior Executive positions for large, multinational companies. Also a highly successful entrepreneur having started a successful CRO and was one of the original Board members for the highly successful eclinical company, Medidata l, where he served on the aboard for 20years until its sale in 2019. Has served on multiple Boards of both private and public companies. Currently is the Executive Chairman of Vineti, a healthcare IT company and a Senior Advisor to Guggenheim Securities. An accomplished executive with a demonstrated history of working in the pharmaceutical, as well as the post acute care & health care IT verticals. Has sat on the Boards of 12 different healthcare related companies Skilled in Healthcare Consulting, having consulted to over 50 different companies Experienced in Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), Revenue Cycle, and Healthcare Management. Strong business development professional with a Doctor of Medicine - MD from Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Zafar Chaudry has been Senior Vice President (Chief Digital & Information Officer) of Seattle Children's since November 06, 2017. Through his role, he provides vision and leadership for the development of technology initiatives and enterprise-wide information systems and services for Seattle Children’s. His goal is to enable clinicians with the best technology to deliver safe and excellent care to our patients. Dr. Chaudry has been nominated as a finalist for the Seattle CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards the last two years (2020 and 2021). He is also a new member of the global elite list Constellation’s Business Transformation 150 (BT150) 2020; that recognizes the top global executives leading business transformation efforts in their organizations. Dr. Chaudry was named to the Becker’s Hospital Review’s 100 Hospital CIOs to Know (2019), CIO magazine’s list of U.K. CIO’s to follow on Twitter (2019) and Becker's Hospital Review (USA) 105 Hospital and Health System CIOs to Know (2018). He was also named to the CIO.CO.UK’s Top 100 list of the most transformative CIOs in the U.K. (2017) and Government Computing’s top 100 influential technology leaders in the U.K. public sector (2010). Dr. Chaudry, who began his career as a physician, has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of information technology. His background includes work in both healthcare and corporate settings in the U.S., Australia, Western Europe and the U.K., in enterprise infrastructure development; business intelligence; unified telecommunications; and implementation of health care information and electronic medical record systems. He previously served as Chief Information Officer at Cambridge University Hospitals in the United Kingdom. Prior to Cambridge University Hospitals, he served as Global Research Director at Gartner. He also served as Chief Information Officer at the Liverpool Women's and Alder Hey Children's Hospitals in the U.K.; Consulting Editor for Hospital Information Technology Europe Magazine; Information Technology Strategist for the Vision4Children Pediatric Charity in the U.K. and Teaching Faculty at the City Colleges of Chicago. Dr. Chaudry earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Ross University. He subsequently earned his Master of Science degree in health care policy and management from the University of Birmingham. He also holds a Master of Science degree in information systems management from the University of Salford and his Master of Business Administration from Aston University, all in the U.K.