(US and Canada) We are pleased to welcome Arvind Balasundaram to CDO Magazine’s Global Editorial Board. Balasundaram is the Executive Director of Commercial Insights & Analytics at Regeneron, a biotechnology company that invents life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. He oversees innovation and forward-thinking initiatives across diverse areas, including AI, data management, trade/field enablement, and insights, analytics, and data science capabilities.

Prior to Regeneron, Balasundaram worked at Sanofi, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Pfizer. During his tenure at these companies, he actively contributed to several industry-leading pharma brand launches, spanning diverse therapeutic areas. 

Balasundaram’s interests include exploring new capabilities to enrich the understanding of customer behavior, engagement, and experience in omnichannel business ecosystems, as well as staying actively engaged in the evolution and application of machine intelligence and AI in augmenting data-driven decision-making. He is a recipient of the 2024 Axtria Ignite Leadership Award and the 2023 AI100 Award in the Early AI Adopter category in recognition of his achievements in advancing the field of Analytics & AI in organizations.

With an MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, Balasundaram also recently attained Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI specializations (awarded online by Stanford Online, deeplearning.ai, and IBM respectively). He also received the Award of Achievement in Digital Analytics degree from the University of British Columbia (in association with the Digital Analytics Association) as well as a Certification in Data Science from the University of California, Irvine (in association with Predictive Analytics World). He is a former Associate in the Applied Analytics Capstone program at Columbia University and a member of the Design Thinking Advisory Board at Rutgers University.

Balasundaram is a past President of the Pharmaceutical Management Science Association (PMSA) and sits on the Advisory Board of the Pharmaceutical Market Research Conference (PMRC). He is also a member of the Regeneron Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee and has been a featured speaker at key meetings such as the AI Summit, CDO Vision, The MachineCon, the Digital Marketing World Forum, Informa TMRE, the ARF Attribution and Analytics Accelerator Conference and several other forums.

Alongside these achievements, Balasundaram has also been featured in several interviews and podcasts on the topic of healthcare, customer insights, analytics, and AI, and has served as an instructor in a GenAI  Masterclass (organized by the Association of Data Science Professionals). He is a member of the Futurense Leadership Council (Futurense provides a disruptive platform to help democratize access and opportunities in the field of Data & Analytics in India) and also serves on the AI-focused Advisory Board at Norstella (parent company to services like Citeline & Evaluate), the CDAO Executive Council at ANA (Association of National Advertisers), the Industry Ad Board for prelaunch.com, and the Client Product Advisory Board for Apollo Intelligence/In Crowd.

As global thought leaders, CDO Magazine’s Editorial Board of top executives share their expert opinions and innovations in data and analytics. The board ensures that we champion the best companies, leaders, and insights that accelerate our community’s success. Members may serve as editorial writers, reviewers, content developers, and conference speakers.

The CDO Magazine community welcomes Arvind Balasundaram to our growing Global Editorial Board membership.