Shweta is a proven commercial executive, and leader, who brings extensive operating experience spanning Digital Health & Technology, Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and large Hospital Systems. She has led deals with Fortune 100 companies and has architected the commercial strategy for Google Cloud in Healthcare. She is passionate about keeping current with trends in medical devices, data, wearables, loT, EH, and machine learning.
At Google, Shweta Leads the rapidly growing business within the most strategic, transformational Healthcare accounts globally. She leads the vision, strategy, and execution of the industry product strategy and go-to-market (GTM) model. Shweta drives Healthcare business transformation innovation with emerging products, “beyond the pill/device,” value addition initiatives and first-of-kind deals by parsing industry trends to recommend, plan for and address core market opportunities with new solutions. She leverages broad Google solutions and cross Alphabet relationships with industry-specific products to deepen engagements. Shweta has put Life Sciences on the map for Google Cloud with leading opportunities such as a first of a kind lighthouse partnership with Sanofi as well as negotiating Google Cloud largest deal with Accenture by moving Accenture’s Life Sciences platform exclusively to Google Cloud.
Earlier in her career, Shweta spent several years in Northeast Ohio at the Cleveland Clinic primarily in a research capacity and at the Austen Biolnnovation Institute in Akron where she brought together 3 community hospitals and 2 universities for tech transfer, primarily focused on medical devices and minimally invasive therapeutics. There she contributed to establishing medical device technologies for pediatric scoliosis as well as driving the licensing of several devices to GE Health, Medtronic and Styrker. Subsequently, she led the commercialization of one of the more prolific hospital systems, Summa Health System and took the role as the Director for the Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics. There she led MIS efforts around research, education and innovation. She later moved to San Francisco to join Genentech/Roche, leading market growth strategies relevant to technology accelerators for therapies and diagnostics. She brings an eye for detail, winning contract negotiations, and financial insight to support her commercial partnership strategy expertise. Shweta and her teams have been recipients of several awards including: 5 awards for digital innovations which have led to several M&A activities at Roche. In addition, Shweta has been the recipient of the Most Valuable Person award.
Shweta has an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of California, San Diego where she attended on an academic scholarship. She’s actively engaged in female and youth mentoring and has served as advisors to several startups including Cohero Health which was recently acquired. Shweta lives in the Bay Area with her two children, Taavish and Shaan, and husband, Tejas.
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Shweta is a frequent speaker at industry events such as Bio-IT, HIMSS, RockHealth, Precision World Medical Conference as well as is a strategic partner of the California Life Sciences Association. Recent speaking topics include delivering on the digital transformation, retail transparency in life sciences, patient experience, leveraging technology to bridge healthcare inequities, women in tech, and meeting compliance and security requirements through use of cloud technology. Shweta currently serves on the board of directors for Seaspine (NASDAQ: SPNE), a global spinal technology company.
Prior to 2020, she was a regular international traveler with a goal to try local foods wherever she goes. She is an avid almond farmer.
