Sajeev Cherian
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Kirstin C. Phelps, Ph.D
I had the opportunity to work with Sajeev for two years after he helped hire me to AbbVie. During that time, I saw Sajeev lead with compassion and authenticity, and he became a key mentor to me within the organization. One of the things I admire most about Sajeev is his communication and collaboration skills. He is as effective in leading a broad global team as he is presenting to upper level leadership or connecting with a student intern. Interactions with him are genuine and authentic. His ability to break down complex challenges and communicate them clearly to others is a key skill. In the time I spent with Sajeev, he served as a role model for how to ask questions in ways that encouraged participation and discussion. His feedback was always timely, appropriate, and insightful - whether discussing personal development or organizational priorities. He was generous with his support and was always willing to make time for me or connect me with others across the organization to build my network. One of the strengths I see in Sajeev is his ability to engage individuals around organizational priorities while fostering a positive group culture. I have seen him courageously enter into difficult conversations respectfully with colleagues to positive effect. He is skilled in identifying and anticipating challenges while also helping guide others through tense moments in ways that acknowledges the difficulties while also orienting those impacted towards possibility. Sajeev is a wonderful mentor and colleague. He is a strong leader and would be an asset to any organization.
Lars Greiffenberg
I had the pleasure of working closely with Sajeev for about four years when he was in charge of managing the Scientific Library and Academic Partnerships in my organization as director. Sajeev is a very hands-on leader, adept at leveraging his consulting background to define and execute winning strategies. He loves challenges and excels at responding to difficult situations. Sajeev has a strong interest in talent development, demonstrating excellent abilities in identifying and cultivating new talent. I can confidently say that he has brought in some of the best young talent into our organization in recent years. Through this special ability, he quickly recognizes the potential in people and helps them to succeed. In this way, he has made a significant contribution to the development of high-performing teams. As a further strong point, I would like to mention that Sajeev actively lives and supports the necessary and important values for inclusion and diversity. For me Sajeev was a very valuable partner and advisor in the leadership of the department. In particular I value his courage in challenging conventional thinking and providing constructive feedback with the goal of finding the best solution.
Kirstin C. Phelps, Ph.D
I had the opportunity to work with Sajeev for two years after he helped hire me to AbbVie. During that time, I saw Sajeev lead with compassion and authenticity, and he became a key mentor to me within the organization. One of the things I admire most about Sajeev is his communication and collaboration skills. He is as effective in leading a broad global team as he is presenting to upper level leadership or connecting with a student intern. Interactions with him are genuine and authentic. His ability to break down complex challenges and communicate them clearly to others is a key skill. In the time I spent with Sajeev, he served as a role model for how to ask questions in ways that encouraged participation and discussion. His feedback was always timely, appropriate, and insightful - whether discussing personal development or organizational priorities. He was generous with his support and was always willing to make time for me or connect me with others across the organization to build my network. One of the strengths I see in Sajeev is his ability to engage individuals around organizational priorities while fostering a positive group culture. I have seen him courageously enter into difficult conversations respectfully with colleagues to positive effect. He is skilled in identifying and anticipating challenges while also helping guide others through tense moments in ways that acknowledges the difficulties while also orienting those impacted towards possibility. Sajeev is a wonderful mentor and colleague. He is a strong leader and would be an asset to any organization.
Lars Greiffenberg
I had the pleasure of working closely with Sajeev for about four years when he was in charge of managing the Scientific Library and Academic Partnerships in my organization as director. Sajeev is a very hands-on leader, adept at leveraging his consulting background to define and execute winning strategies. He loves challenges and excels at responding to difficult situations. Sajeev has a strong interest in talent development, demonstrating excellent abilities in identifying and cultivating new talent. I can confidently say that he has brought in some of the best young talent into our organization in recent years. Through this special ability, he quickly recognizes the potential in people and helps them to succeed. In this way, he has made a significant contribution to the development of high-performing teams. As a further strong point, I would like to mention that Sajeev actively lives and supports the necessary and important values for inclusion and diversity. For me Sajeev was a very valuable partner and advisor in the leadership of the department. In particular I value his courage in challenging conventional thinking and providing constructive feedback with the goal of finding the best solution.
Kirstin C. Phelps, Ph.D
I had the opportunity to work with Sajeev for two years after he helped hire me to AbbVie. During that time, I saw Sajeev lead with compassion and authenticity, and he became a key mentor to me within the organization. One of the things I admire most about Sajeev is his communication and collaboration skills. He is as effective in leading a broad global team as he is presenting to upper level leadership or connecting with a student intern. Interactions with him are genuine and authentic. His ability to break down complex challenges and communicate them clearly to others is a key skill. In the time I spent with Sajeev, he served as a role model for how to ask questions in ways that encouraged participation and discussion. His feedback was always timely, appropriate, and insightful - whether discussing personal development or organizational priorities. He was generous with his support and was always willing to make time for me or connect me with others across the organization to build my network. One of the strengths I see in Sajeev is his ability to engage individuals around organizational priorities while fostering a positive group culture. I have seen him courageously enter into difficult conversations respectfully with colleagues to positive effect. He is skilled in identifying and anticipating challenges while also helping guide others through tense moments in ways that acknowledges the difficulties while also orienting those impacted towards possibility. Sajeev is a wonderful mentor and colleague. He is a strong leader and would be an asset to any organization.
Lars Greiffenberg
I had the pleasure of working closely with Sajeev for about four years when he was in charge of managing the Scientific Library and Academic Partnerships in my organization as director. Sajeev is a very hands-on leader, adept at leveraging his consulting background to define and execute winning strategies. He loves challenges and excels at responding to difficult situations. Sajeev has a strong interest in talent development, demonstrating excellent abilities in identifying and cultivating new talent. I can confidently say that he has brought in some of the best young talent into our organization in recent years. Through this special ability, he quickly recognizes the potential in people and helps them to succeed. In this way, he has made a significant contribution to the development of high-performing teams. As a further strong point, I would like to mention that Sajeev actively lives and supports the necessary and important values for inclusion and diversity. For me Sajeev was a very valuable partner and advisor in the leadership of the department. In particular I value his courage in challenging conventional thinking and providing constructive feedback with the goal of finding the best solution.
Kirstin C. Phelps, Ph.D
I had the opportunity to work with Sajeev for two years after he helped hire me to AbbVie. During that time, I saw Sajeev lead with compassion and authenticity, and he became a key mentor to me within the organization. One of the things I admire most about Sajeev is his communication and collaboration skills. He is as effective in leading a broad global team as he is presenting to upper level leadership or connecting with a student intern. Interactions with him are genuine and authentic. His ability to break down complex challenges and communicate them clearly to others is a key skill. In the time I spent with Sajeev, he served as a role model for how to ask questions in ways that encouraged participation and discussion. His feedback was always timely, appropriate, and insightful - whether discussing personal development or organizational priorities. He was generous with his support and was always willing to make time for me or connect me with others across the organization to build my network. One of the strengths I see in Sajeev is his ability to engage individuals around organizational priorities while fostering a positive group culture. I have seen him courageously enter into difficult conversations respectfully with colleagues to positive effect. He is skilled in identifying and anticipating challenges while also helping guide others through tense moments in ways that acknowledges the difficulties while also orienting those impacted towards possibility. Sajeev is a wonderful mentor and colleague. He is a strong leader and would be an asset to any organization.
Lars Greiffenberg
I had the pleasure of working closely with Sajeev for about four years when he was in charge of managing the Scientific Library and Academic Partnerships in my organization as director. Sajeev is a very hands-on leader, adept at leveraging his consulting background to define and execute winning strategies. He loves challenges and excels at responding to difficult situations. Sajeev has a strong interest in talent development, demonstrating excellent abilities in identifying and cultivating new talent. I can confidently say that he has brought in some of the best young talent into our organization in recent years. Through this special ability, he quickly recognizes the potential in people and helps them to succeed. In this way, he has made a significant contribution to the development of high-performing teams. As a further strong point, I would like to mention that Sajeev actively lives and supports the necessary and important values for inclusion and diversity. For me Sajeev was a very valuable partner and advisor in the leadership of the department. In particular I value his courage in challenging conventional thinking and providing constructive feedback with the goal of finding the best solution.
Experience
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Cherian & Company
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Managing Director
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May 2022 - Present
A digital and design focused firm that builds winning digital, tech and applied AI / data science strategies and products for leading clients. Examples of recent work include: o For a global healthcare conglomerate defined the go forward technology strategy based on enterprise architecture principles. Worked with stakeholders across the organization to understand business unit and function specific needs and reflect those in the go forward strategy. o For a leading healthcare company worked with IT stakeholders to understand and properly leverage in-flight programs. Built alignment around a future state vision and operational roadmap. o Performed rapid business and technical due diligence to advise senior leadership at a global life sciences company on M&A opportunities with a leading startup in their industry o Advised an AI startup on product development and commercial strategy related to its leading AI offering for pharmaceutical companies o For a tech startup served as fractional Chief Operating Officer (COO) in charge of all aspects of commercial business operations including marketing strategy development and execution, product development
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AbbVie
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Director, Data & Information Science
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Feb 2018 - Apr 2022
In this role I helped AbbVie achieve two key strategic objectives:1) establish an industry-leading knowledge science capability that provides AbbVie scientists with access to high-quality, relevant content and2) establish mutually beneficial partnerships with academic institutions that will enable AbbVie to fulfill its mission of delivering life-saving therapies to patients worldwideI led a very talented, globally distributed team of 30+ information scientists and technologists whose success was critically dependent on robust collaboration with key partners both within and outside of AbbVie.
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IT Director, Business Technology Solutions
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Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP: Led a team of 20+ business technology professionals who provided strategy, architecture and delivery expertise to AbbVie's R&D business unit. Our mission was to leverage our expertise to enable AbbVie R&D to unlock the information that makes cures possible. I led a very talented, globally distributed team of 30+ information scientists and technologists whose success was critically dependent on robust collaboration with key partners both within and outside of AbbVie. Managed departmental budgets of $25MM+ and additionally was accountable for large implementation projects routinely engaging external partners to scale.AUTOMATION: Spearheaded exploration of automation technologies (machine learning, cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, ... ) and their applicability to R&D. Led detailed process analysis, strategic options analysis and multi million dollar business case for automationDATA SCIENCE: Led efforts to establish data science capability within the R&D organization. Elucidated key Real World Data / Data Lake needs and collaborated with colleagues from other business units to establish an enterprise data science capability.
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The Boston Consulting Group
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India
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal
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Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
As a Principal I advised executive leadership of Fortune 500 clients on strategic opportunities including mergers and acquisitions, cost reduction, strategic market expansion and digital business ventures. As a Principal I advised executive leadership of Fortune 500 clients on strategic opportunities including mergers and acquisitions, cost reduction, strategic market expansion and digital business ventures.
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PwC
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Professional Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Director, IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture
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Nov 2010 - Nov 2014
As a Director in PwC's Advisory practice, I worked with pharmaceutical, life sciences, payer and provider clients around the globe on their most pressing strategic business issues, structuring the analysis of complex problems and leading teams in the design of business, operational and technology strategies. Highlights of my engagements include: - developing an IT strategy for clinical supply chain management at one of the world's premier pharmaceutical companies. This work involved performing a comprehensive current state assessment of my client's technical architecture, leveraging the strategic business architecture framework to identify core business capabilities, and leveraging the solution architecture framework to develop the conceptual and logical IT architectures needed to enable business capabilities. - developing a business and operating plan for a genomic research institute based at one of the nation’s premier pediatric research hospitals. On this project I defined the operating model and organizational structure needed to launch the institute and provided strategic advice on value propositions & services and revenue & cost projections. Additionally, I facilitated the creation of a business case used to obtain support from hospital board members and venture capitalists to seed $100MM in start-up funding for the institute. - defining the strategic operating model and multi-year roadmap for a marketing solution center at a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company. In this capacity I worked with client executive stakeholders to identify the critical marketing capabilities needed by client business units and formulated the technology strategy needed to support those needs.
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Diamond Management & Technology Consultants
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Associate
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Aug 2010 - Nov 2010
I learned Diamond's approach to Enterprise Architecture, including Strategic Business Architecture, Operational Business Architecture, Solution Architecture and Reference Architecture) and leveraged strategic frameworks to generate value for my clients. Since Diamond's acquisition by PwC I have worked to develop an Enterprise Strategy group that does work similar in approach to Diamond's. Highlights of my client work at Diamond included: - For a $50+ Billion global healthcare company, I leveraged Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks to identify ways to improve the efficiency of the company’s $2B IT spend. I specifically evaluated operational processes, information flows and technologies used to support the client's Research & Development, Quality & Compliance and Legal business functions. The outcomes of this project generated more than $1.5B in benefits / cost-savings for the company over the following five years.
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Manhattan Prep, Powered by Kaplan
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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GMAT Instructor
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Apr 2009 - Oct 2010
- taught GMAT content & strategies (online & in-person) to applicants to elite MBA programs. - customized ManhattanGMAT’s proprietary curriculum to work with my inductive teaching style. - completed over 100 hours of pedagogical teacher training and evaluation before teaching my first class. - successfully completed a rigorous 3 month interview/evaluation prior to hire (20% acceptance rate among instructor applicants already possessing a 99th percentile GMAT score) - taught GMAT content & strategies (online & in-person) to applicants to elite MBA programs. - customized ManhattanGMAT’s proprietary curriculum to work with my inductive teaching style. - completed over 100 hours of pedagogical teacher training and evaluation before teaching my first class. - successfully completed a rigorous 3 month interview/evaluation prior to hire (20% acceptance rate among instructor applicants already possessing a 99th percentile GMAT score)
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University of Michigan Ross School of Business
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Researcher
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Sep 2005 - Jul 2010
- examined firm-performance implications of IT investments by studying how IT investments affect innovation in firms. Preliminary research results presented at 2009 Americas Conference for Information Systems. - taught fundamentals of Business Information Systems (required BBA core class) to third year undergraduate business students achieving an instructor rating of 4.7 out of 5.0. - examined firm-performance implications of IT investments by studying how IT investments affect innovation in firms. Preliminary research results presented at 2009 Americas Conference for Information Systems. - taught fundamentals of Business Information Systems (required BBA core class) to third year undergraduate business students achieving an instructor rating of 4.7 out of 5.0.
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Project Manager
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2000 - 2005
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Abbott Laboratories
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Colombia
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Personal Care Product Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Cell & Molecular Biologist
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Nov 1995 - Mar 2000
I worked with a team of over 40 biologists and chemists to develop anti-cancer agents for drug development. My role included designing and performing biological assays to evaluate the efficacy of candidate drug compounds created by our chemists. I am one of 6 named inventors on a patent filed as a result of our work. I worked with a team of over 40 biologists and chemists to develop anti-cancer agents for drug development. My role included designing and performing biological assays to evaluate the efficacy of candidate drug compounds created by our chemists. I am one of 6 named inventors on a patent filed as a result of our work.
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Education
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University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
PhD, Business Information Technology -
University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Biology -
Springfield High School
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DePaul University
Master’s Degree, Management Information Systems
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