Laguna welcomes Hani Zeini as New Chair of Board

It is with great pleasure that Laguna welcomes Hani Zeini as the new Chair of Laguna Blanca’s Board of Trustees. Hani has been an active participant in the Laguna community, serving on its board since 2013, where he is valued for his strategic thinking and leadership on developing Laguna’s future science center.

 

Hani brings an entrepreneurial vision and energy to Laguna and hopes to accelerate and broaden the board’s support of the school’s academics, athletics, and arts programs, especially its already advanced courses in the humanities, project-based learning, robotics and engineering, entrepreneurship, and the new two-year Science Research Program.

One of the key roles of the Board of Trustees is to ensure the school is accomplishing its mission and upholding its core values of scholarship, character, balance, and community. Additionally, the board works collaboratively with the head of school to provide guidance and to ensure that Laguna has adequate financial resources to meet these objectives.

Hani is a successful business leader with nearly 30 years of experience in the healthcare and medical device industries. He started his career at the Dupont Pharmaceuticals Company, later moving on to Pharmasmarket.com, an internet healthcare marketplace; Acurian, a venture-capital-backed clinical trials company; and Inamed Aesthetics, now Allergan Medical. In 2006, Hani founded Sientra, a medical device company focused on the aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery markets, which he successfully took public on the NASDAQ in 2014. Hani served as its president, chief executive officer, and board director until the end of 2015. In 2017, he established a strategic advisory and investment company advising Fortune 100 companies (the 100 largest public and privately held companies in the United States) and investor-backed startups in the medical aesthetics area.

Holding a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami, Hani also completed the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. In addition to his role as Board Chair at Laguna, he serves as the Industry Advisor on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and is on the advisory board at Image Reborn Foundation in Park City, Utah, which is focused on helping women reclaim their sense of personal power following a breast cancer diagnosis.

Hani and his wife, Amal—who is also deeply committed to the school, taking on leadership roles for the Parents’ Auxiliary and chairing the annual spring benefit in 2014—have two children currently attending Laguna Blanca, Rhami (Class of 2020) and Lana (Class of 2025).