Sudhir Shandilya

About Sudhir Shandilya

I combine a self-learning mindset with deep business acumen and technical depth to deliver transformation that holds.My expertise spans product portfolios, platform strategy, and digital transformation across healthcare, life sciences, and complex regulated environments. I design operating models built for sustained value — from first principles through production deployment.I\'ve built teams from the ground up, scaled organizations, led M&A integrations, and embedded innovation frameworks that stick. I define AI strategy and build the systems that execute it — in environments where getting it wrong isn\'t an option.What makes my perspective different: over twenty years operating across every major enterprise domain in life sciences — from R&D and Commercial to HR, Legal, and Business Operations. I know where technology creates value and where it creates chaos — because I\'ve led transformation across all of them, not just advised from the outside.This extends to governed AI for regulated industries — GxP, HIPAA, FDA, and the emerging compliance frontier of veterinary care and animal welfare. Compliance is not a final approval gate. It is a design input.I hold a patent-pending platform for governed agentic AI — purpose-built for high-stakes environments where autonomous execution demands more than a checkbox for \"human-in-the-loop.\"I mentor C-suite and senior leaders on AI strategy, governance, and implementation at Johns Hopkins (AI in Healthcare & Agentic AI) and UT Austin McCombs (AI for Leaders) via Great Learning.Technical foundation: end-to-end AI/ML and agentic AI systems — from data pipelines through production deployment.

Experience

1. Director (Sdsm) - Digital Strategy, Transformation, and Operations

   Sanofi

   Sep 2023 — Present · Framingham, MA, US

   AI Product Manager and AI Strategy Lead within Digital Delivery & Operations (DD & O), driving the AI product strategy for the DD & O organization. Architecting and delivering agentic AI workflows for Financial Reporting Internal Controls — a high-stakes program at the intersection of SOX 404 compliance, external audit scrutiny, and enterprise risk. Manage a portfolio of projects spanning M&A, Partnering & Alliance, Omnichannel, Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Affairs. Accountable for digital portfolio prioritization, executive alignment on AI priorities with senior leadership, and cross-functional partnership across M&A, Legal, Compliance, Partnering & Alliance Management.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Cybersecurity: Technology, Application and Policy

• Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business

  MBA, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Product Management

• Harvard Business School

  Digital Health

• Zakir Husain College Of Engineering & Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science & Engineering

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML): Business Applications