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10 Sanofi AI and data science leaders
These ten current and former Sanofi AI and data science leaders have held director-level AI, machine learning or data science roles at Sanofi. A reader can learn how AI and data science leaders work at Sanofi from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
01—10Brandon Rufino
LinkedInExperience: Director of AI Clinical Development · Sanofi
Director of AI Clinical Development at Sanofi since 2026; the profile says Brandon leads delivery of AI solutions for how development programs are designed, planned and executed. At Sanofi, Brandon was also Director of AI for Clinical Trial Design (2025–2026), Computational Science Manager (2024–2025) and Computational Scientist, Lead (2022–2024).
Bruno Gagliardo
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of Data and AI Accelerator and GenAi platform · Sanofi
Global Head of Data and AI Accelerator and GenAi platform at Sanofi since 2024, a role the profile describes as leading the data and AI practice across Sanofi accelerators in commercial, R&D and manufacturing and supply chain. At Sanofi, Bruno was also Global head of AI platform and application management (2022–2024) and Global Head of Data Architecture (2022).
Jordi Escayola, MBA, Ph.D.
LinkedInExperience: Global Head Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science · Sanofi
Global Head Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at Sanofi since 2023, and the profile places Jordi in Barcelona. Jordi was also Director Artificial Intelligence & Data Sciences - Applied Intelligence at Accenture (2022–2023), has been Associate Professor in a Master in Big Data & Data Sciences at La Salle BCN since 2022, and taught machine learning at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2019–2023).
Kaoutar Sghiouer
LinkedInExperience: Global Head Of Data and AI CDAIO Group SVP · Sanofi
Global Head Of Data and AI CDAIO Group SVP at Sanofi since 2023 and former Head Of Data & AI - Accelerator at Sanofi (2022–2023). Kaoutar was also CTO 5G & AI solutions and Group AI Authorative Advisor (2021–2022), Group AI Authorative Advisor & Head of Data&AI (2020–2021) and AI Product Manager and Global chief data scientist (2017–2019) at Bull.
Kartik Pant
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data, AI, Governance Platforms (VP) · Sanofi
Head of Data, AI, Governance Platforms (VP) at Sanofi since 2026, a role the profile describes as leading enterprise-scale platforms for data, AI, GenAI and AI agent implementation across Sanofi. Kartik was also Head of Data & AI, Manufacturing & Supply (VP) at Sanofi (2022–2025) and Principal & Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group (2016–2022).
Khader Shameer
LinkedInExperience: Global Head - Computational Biology & AI Strategy · Sanofi
Global Head - Computational Biology & AI Strategy at Sanofi since 2026. At Sanofi, Khader was also Global Head, Computational Biology - Target, Disease and Systems Biology (2024–2026) and Executive Director - Precision Medicine and Computational Biology (2022–2024), and was Senior Director for AI/ML, data science, digital health and bioinformatics at AstraZeneca (2018–2022).
Norbert Furtmann
LinkedInExperience: Head of Biologics AI & Design - Computational & AI Strategy · Sanofi
Head of Biologics AI & Design - Computational & AI Strategy at Sanofi since 2025; the profile says Norbert leads a global team of about 20 ML and computational scientists across the US and Europe. At Sanofi, Norbert was also Head of AI Innovation - Large Molecules Research (2025) and Group Leader Computational & High-throughput Protein Engineering (2021–2025).
Qi Tang
LinkedInExperience: Director of AI for R&D Project Support · Sanofi
Director of AI for R&D Project Support at Sanofi since 2025; the profile describes work on digital biomarker discovery, omics data analysis and image data interpretation. At Sanofi, Qi was also R&D GenAI Product Owner (2024–2025), Director of Applied AI (2023–2025) and Director of Data Sciences, Bioimaging and Digital Pathology (2021–2023).
Sean Huberman
LinkedInExperience: Head of R&D AI Engineering · Sanofi
Head of R&D AI Engineering at Sanofi since 2025, a role the profile describes as leading the engineering strategy, architecture and delivery of production AI platforms. Sean was also VP Engineering, formerly Chief Architect & Lead Engineer, at Mapsted (2015–2025) and a Doctoral Researcher at McGill University (2008–2015), and the profile places Sean in Toronto.
Yunke Xiang
LinkedInExperience: Head of Data & AI, Manufacturing & Supply (VP) · Sanofi
Head of Data & AI, Manufacturing & Supply (VP) at Sanofi since 2026 and former Global Head of Data Science, Industrial Affairs at Sanofi (2022–2026). Yunke was also Project Leader and Lead Data Scientist at BCG GAMMA, Boston Consulting Group (2014–2022), and the profile describes building and launching AI and GenAI products in a highly regulated domain.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a large drugmaker organize data and AI teams across business units and functions?
- 02What does it take to run a shared GenAI platform that many teams use?
- 03How do AI teams in manufacturing and supply decide which problems to solve first?
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