Gopal Gantayat

About Gopal Gantayat

I am a program and governance leader with 25+ years across regulated industries, the last 8 focused on pharma and life sciences. My work centers on driving cross-functional programs, portfolio governance, and AI-enabled business transformation across commercial operations, medical, market access, supply chain, clinical, and enterprise platforms.I help organizations turn strategy into execution in complex, highly regulated environments. The work typically involves aligning business, IT, data, compliance, vendors, and global markets around large initiatives, while maintaining strong governance, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.Representative areas of recent work:• Leading AI/ML Next Best Action programs on ZS ZAIDYN integrated with Veeva CRM, with governance and validation guardrails for compliant AI use in the field• Delivering a global tender management platform rollout across 90+ countries in multiple waves, completed ahead of plan• Driving digital asset and content operations transformation through Veeva PromoMats and MedComms, with meaningful content reuse gains and faster approval cycles• Leading portfolio governance across a large multi-hundred-initiative IT and digital portfolio spanning product development, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and cell therapy• Launching patient-facing mobile capabilities across multiple European markets• Building KPI dashboards, governance rhythms, and operating models that improve visibility, execution discipline, and value realizationWhat I bring:• AI-native builder experience, including agentic workflow systems, a pharma knowledge platform built on PostgreSQL and pgvector, and a portfolio of AI-assisted applications, backed by CPMAI v7 certification• Enterprise portfolio and program leadership across large, matrixed pharma environments• The ability to align cross-functional teams around governance, adoption, execution, and measurable value• Strong business and financial acumen, including an MBA from NYU SternAlways interested in connecting with leaders working on pharma transformation, portfolio governance, data strategy, and AI enablement.

Experience

1. Group Program Manager

   CSL

   Sep 2022 — Present

Education

• Xavier Institute of Management(XIM Bhubaneswar)

  PGDM, Information Technology, Finance

• National Institute of Technology Surat

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics

• NYU Stern School of Business

  MBA, Management, Finance, and Accounting

Skills

• Lead Generation
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• SEO
• Facebook Marketing
• Web Development
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Equity Valuation
• Equities
• Equity Research
• Industry Analysis
• Valuation
• Investment Banking
• Portfolio Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Sdlc
• Vendor Management
• Investments
• Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Hedge Funds
• New Business Development
• Capital Markets
• Fixed Income
• Management
• Social Media
• Business Development
• Digital Marketing
• Google Adwords
• Linkedin Marketing
• Marketing
• Leadership
• Consulting
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)