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Snehal Srikrishna

Snehal Srikrishna

Arlington,MA

Summary

Catalyst for disruptive growth of enterprise SaaS and AI businesses in regulated industries with an extensive network of executive customer relationships and strategic GSI partners across global Top 50 biopharma, medical devices, generics, and CDMO/CROs.

Spearheaded cross-functional, company-wide, and global initiatives with teams across the US, EU, and Asia to accelerate growth for larger enterprise ($100M+) business by 3x over 5 years, and scaled four startups from $0 to $50M+ ARR over 3 years.

Shop floor supervisor to boardroom advisor on Digital and AI, spanning R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Regulatory. Evangelist, thought leader, and member of core leadership team for launch of Veeva AI in 2025/26 –- agentic AI for life sciences across 50+ cloud applications.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Director, Strategy

VEEVA SYSTEMS
Boston, USA
07.2019 - Current
  • Report to President of Global Quality Cloud business (T-1): $460M+ ACV and ~$120M+ Services revenue
  • "GM leader" responsible for growth strategy across key vertical markets, industry thought leadership, customer engagement, and GTM motion across major life sciences segments totaling $1.1Bn+ TAM
  • One of 15 "core GM leaders" across Veeva for managing strategic executive relationships with Top 25 global Pharma customers including hosting Annual Veeva Executive Forum and Veeva Summits globally
  • Ownership of business planning processes for defining 5-year Growth Plans, setting annual Hill to Climb objectives, and leading annual Field Kick Off enablement sessions for Sales and Strategy
  • Lead GTM execution with field facing leaders across Sales, Strategy, Marketing, Solution Consulting, Services through weekly cross team meetings to review key deals, key hires, and key projects
  • Plan and execute "Innovation Days" with 3-5 strategic customers annually to jointly define a vision and build a longer range roadmap
  • Manage 12 member “virtual CEO” team owning Veeva’s cloud solutions for R&D & Quality across Top 50 Global Pharma, CMOs & Generics, Asia, and India segments
  • Developed strategy and competitive positioning on application of advanced automation / AI in life sciences; navigated hype vs reality on high value use cases for GenAI and established AI partner program
  • Developed ecosystem of strategic partners including management consulting firms to enable customer success during implementations and post-implementation of Veeva’s applications
  • Recognition through "deal of the year" team awards at Amgen, Pfizer, and Teva

Start-up Experience: In addition to above, built and scaled four “start-up” businesses from Zero to One for new product launch and new vertical markets including:

  • Data/AI (Oct 2024 - present): Launched Veeva AI across 600+ customers in US and Europe
  • Enterprise 32 (Feb 2023 – Sep 2024): Hired 10+ sales team and strategy leads to accelerate growth to 30%+ yoy
  • India (Feb 2021 – Sep 2024): Hired GM, Sales leader, and Services leader to scale business to $10M+ ARR and 25+ team
  • Generics & CDMO (Sep 2019 – Jan 2021): Hired Sales leader and built 20+ Sales team; acquired 30 customers in US and Europe and scaled business to $50M+ ARR

Director, PLS Operations Transformation Practice

STRATEGY& (PwC Network)
Boston, USA
01.2010 - 06.2019
  • Practice Leader: Managed 20+ consulting team serving US life sciences clients' strategic priorities in R&D, Technical Operations, and GxP Quality. Exceeded $6M/yr revenue managed target in 2017-19.
  • Business Development: Prospected and acquired new business as member of Operations TransformationLT.Exceeded$8M/yr sales target for 2016-19.
  • Thought leadership: Established Top 25 Pharma Heads of R&D Quality and Heads of QMS Roundtables (2017-19)
  • India: Established PRTM's consulting business (acquired by PwC); built and scaled a 50+ member India Analytics team. Transferred as Multi-national Executive (EB1-A visa) to build the US West Coast life sciences market
  • R&D: Slashed development costs and accelerated clinical development programs by 50% at Roivant by implementing PlanisWare
  • R&D: Reduced cycle times for submissions and HA approval of registrations by 35% at Amgen by implementing Veeva Vault RIM
  • R&D: Technology Transfer and remediation of 70+ molecules for Hospira (Pfizer) from US to India R&D site to achieve target volume and velocity of development projects and ANDA filings
  • Technical Operations: Streamlined CMC processes for drug substance and drug product mfg.by 25% for therapeutics portfolio at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Technical Operations: End-to-end operations program management (Man in Plant) for build-out, operational readiness, and tech transfer of 13 molecules to Hospira's largest sterile injectables mfg. site in India
  • Quality: Unlocked synergies from GxP integration and harmonization as part of merger of Shire & Baxalta; implemented Vault QualityDocs
  • Quality: Unlocked synergies from GxP harmonization as part of merger of BMS and Celgene; implemented Vault QualityDocs
  • India Quality: Quality systems remediation & organization redesign for Ranbaxy (Sun Pharma) to overcome Injunction/Consent Decree and Import Alert at 3 sites
  • Supply Chain: Realized 12% reduction in COGS via tax-efficient principal in Singapore to source materials at CR Bard (SAP)
  • Commercial: Improved compliance and efficiency of CMLR processes globally by implementing Vault PromoMats
  • Promoted 4 times: Senior Associate (2011), Manager (2012), Senior Manager (2014), and Director (2016)
  • Admitted as a Junior Partner to PwC’s Partnership Candidate Leadership Development program (2018)

Chief Catalyst Officer

KRISH & KING
Bangalore, India
11.2008 - 12.2009
  • Undertook interim-management of the family business providing CFO-on-hire and other advanced financial services for small and medium companies in South India
  • Executed strategic sale and transfer of business ownership in Dec 2009

Staff Consultant, Supply Chain Practice

CAPGEMINI CONSULTING
Chicago, USA
03.2006 - 10.2008
  • Streamlined end-to-end Supply Chain processes for multi-year enterprise technology deployments at Astellas, Takeda, and EMD Serono
  • Program managed deployments of Ariba (Procure to Pay), Siemens PLM (Design to Make), and i2 (Plan to Deliver)
  • Co-authored 2008 Global Innovation Study based on 500+ executive survey across 30+ countries

Research Scholar, Center for NDE

Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
Chennai, India
12.2003 - 08.2004
  • Secured USAF Grant for predictive aircraft maintenance using Ultrasonic NDE
  • Developed neural network algorithms for 3D visualization of fractures

Education

Master of Science - Robotics, Engineering Mgmt.

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, USA
12.2005

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Manufacturing Control Systems

R.V College of Engineering
Bangalore, India
07.2003

Skills

  • Business strategy and planning
  • Customer engagement and executive relationships
  • Go-to-market execution
  • Leadership development
  • Cultural transformation
  • Digital and AI transformation in life sciences
  • Strategic partnerships and negotiation

Hobbies and Interests

  • F1 Racing Enthusiast
  • Travel
  • Tennis

Personal Information

Nationality: Naturalized American (USA), Overseas Citizen of India

Certification

MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Certificate in Strategy

Accomplishments

2021 Deal of the Year - Pfizer

Timeline

Senior Director, Strategy

VEEVA SYSTEMS
07.2019 - Current

Director, PLS Operations Transformation Practice

STRATEGY& (PwC Network)
01.2010 - 06.2019

Chief Catalyst Officer

KRISH & KING
11.2008 - 12.2009

Staff Consultant, Supply Chain Practice

CAPGEMINI CONSULTING
03.2006 - 10.2008

Research Scholar, Center for NDE

Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
12.2003 - 08.2004

Master of Science - Robotics, Engineering Mgmt.

University of Michigan

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Manufacturing Control Systems

R.V College of Engineering
Snehal Srikrishna