Dhara Patel

- Redesigned the technology operating and organization model for a top 5 pharma client’s IT division, covering 450 employees and a $600M product portfolio, to build a more seamless working model between tech and business and enable a digital-first approach - Ideated the first company-wide tech strategy for a top 5 payor by focusing on strategic and disruptive levers to build an AI-enabled enterprise with agentic workforce integration, cyber resilient foundations, and optimized tech productivity - Refreshed McKinsey’s 5-year digital & analytics internal strategy by analyzing competitive trends and 10K+ client engagements - Built a comprehensive strategy, directly presented to a top 5 pharmaco’s CEO / CFO, to maximize 3 cardiology and immunology pipeline assets’ sales (est. peak revenues $5-10B each) with an overview of market size, key spend levers, and competitors

- Transformed a top 10 pharma company's Development arm to streamline operations, reduce costs, and create more cohesion between the Research and Development functions

- Launched a new mRNA therapeutics division for a leading biotech in collaboration with the new SVP and COO; implemented new agile, analytics, and digital capabilities to accelerate client’s clinical trial timelines by up to 3 years and save $30M+ per trial - Designed a 5-year product strategy for a startup client’s first decentralized (virtually-run) clinical trial platform to get additional PE funding; rapidly assessed growth vectors to identify 35 key product features and 6 core capabilities to add to the product - Restructured a State Dept. of Health’s tech operating model and refined COVID patient data collection processes - Boosted platform revenue potential to $600M+ for a mental health tech startup and provided directional clarity through patient, customer, and expert interviews to identify 38 critical value drivers and 3 key product configurations - Turned around the declining Patient Recruitment group (-10% CAGR) of a clinical research org. by conducting market analysis and surveying ~80 customers & experts to better identify client value proposition - Identified 3 key options for a stem cell client to expand to new cell therapy applications and outlined 4 proposals to streamline manufacturing operations by analyzing ~20 yrs. of clinical trial data and industry manufacturing practices - Co-created a firm-wide Tech Operating Model product that assesses and benchmarks clients’ digital maturity against 22 key tech enablers; independently ran 3 client studies and utilized product with 25+ clients globally in 5 languages - McKinsey HealthTech Network Leadership Team member and Scrum Master: Managed global team operations and drove reach & relevance efforts for 200+ clients, e.g., by organizing a 600-person D&I in Digital Health Conference

- Conducted due diligence and sourcing for 20+ health tech startups and co-authored the term sheet for a new portco investment - Created presentation for the Annual Investor Meeting, incl. portfolio performance overview and market look at AI in health tech

DigitalDx Ventures focuses on early-stage digital diagnostics companies that utilize cutting edge technologies to enable more precise or earlier patient diagnoses. DigitalDx is majority woman-owned and focuses on investing in startups that have diverse teams and boards. - Performed due diligences on over 30 early stage startups across different indications, focusing on factors such as technical merit of the innovation, founding team background and cohesion, and potential market growth

Clementine is an interactive, user-friendly, convenient, and affordable AI-based digital health app. Clementine enables healthy behavior change with the goal of helping users who are at risk of or in the early stages of chronic diseases prevent, manage, and reverse their conditions. -Semifinalist in Booth’s New Venture Challenge (NVC)

- Streamline operations and explore market landscape to solve process blocks for a $50M new product - Create a go-to-market plan and develop the UI/UX for a groundbreaking cross-industry “super app” - Performed due diligence for the potential acquisition of a market leading Wellness software vendor, worth $90M+ in annual incremental revenue, to recommend a go-forward strategy - Determined the impact of subscriptions on spend patterns and conducted research to recommend three go-forward options to play in the subscription market, which impacts 200K+ JPMC consumers - Analyzed market data to size the threat posed by Point of Sale lending products used by 300K+ customers

- Created content to convey key project metrics to over 20 senior level executives, enabling continued buy-in and ensuring execution of planned timelines for a Leadership Talent Transformation project involving over 600+ IBM Partners - Conducted extensive research to determine client opportunities within the sports fan engagement market and developed financial models for the projected growth rates, culminating in a polished client narrative to sell IBM work valued at approximately $15M - Drove LatAm construction client to digitally reinvent itself by sourcing unique IoT implementation opportunities within construction

- Developed a ceiling mounted robot arm with voice command capabilities that extends/retracts a portable x-ray machine for surgeon use - Saved over $50,000 per x-ray machine installation in each operating room - Quantified and conceptualized current market deficiencies with UX principles and model a working prototype - Fabricated and manufactured the design: concept drawings, drafting, paper and 3D model, built prototype - Work on the regulatory side to clear the device for FDA approvals

- Awarded the prestigious President’s Undergraduate Research Award to study cognitive neuroscience twice - Innovate a micro-pipette cleaning method integrable into a robot that automatically patch clamps neurons - Train robot to test and clean a single micro-pipette for ~15 trials, successively without error

- Inaugural Chair and founder of an unprecedented, cross-functional department initiative to restructure the BME engineering curriculum - Major contributor to the department’s 2017 #1 ranking by US-NEWS - Oversee an ongoing $750,000 renovation of the 4th floor of the BME building and instructional support to over 300 students with a resulting 5-point increase in letter grade, amongst other programs - Initiated and expanded a department wide mentorship program by 200% over 2 years

- Lead a section of BMED 2250: Problems in BME I for a team of 8 students - Utilized variety of newer teaching methods such as inquiry learning, problem based learning, and the Socratic method to instill strong leadership/communication skills

Dual Concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Healthcare. Dean's List Honoree and Friedman Scholar (1/2 tuition merit scholarship)

Dean's List graduate and double major in Biomedical Engineering and Spanish. 1 semester Language, Business, and Technology Study Abroad Program in Mexico and Spain. Recipient of National Merit and Zell Miller Scholarship.