CHIRAG SHAH, Director of Supply Chain Security, Sanofi

During Chirag V Shah’s career in Supply Chain / Product Security, he has worked in both Pharmaceutical/Biotech and Consumer Goods industry. His career has included work in the supply chain management consulting. For the 19 years to date within Sanofi, Chirag has developed a strong network with in Global Industrial Affairs / Global Supply Chain for Pharma, Pasteur, Genzyme and Consumer Health. He has strong knowledge in supply chain principles, systems, product & supply chain security and anti-counterfeiting technologies. Chirag is also the point of contact for US Customs and Border Protection’s Customs Trade Partners Against Terrorism for both entities of Sanofi’s – Sanofi US Services Inc. and Sanofi Consumer Healthcare. Chirag is a member of Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) and the Waiver and Standards Committees and Certified Trainer for Facilities & Transportation Security Requirements, member of Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Coalition (PCSC) and has graduated from Sanofi’s Emerging Leadership Program. Lastly, he is a Six Sigma Greenbelt from Sanofi.

Chirag for the past 11 years and currently is the Director, Global Product & Supply Chain Security for Sanofi. He is responsible for ensuring the integrity of Sanofi products (biologic’s, pharma, vaccines and consumer health) from manufacturing to patients – an end to end program which includes working on way to prevent counterfeiting, hijacking, diversion and ensuring the supply chain is protected. Product life cycle risk management tools are used to minimize risk to the products throughout the supply chain. Currently, Chirag conducts Supply Chain Security Audits domestically & internationally, especially those that are governed under US Customs & Border Patrol’s Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) which allows expedited entry into the US of imported Raw Materials, API, Bulk and Finished Goods. In addition, Chirag provides training to other Security colleagues around the world in order to expand the Supply Chain Security Audit program. Chirag chairs the North America Sanofi Business Security Committee, bringing a cross-functional team of Regulatory, Legal, Quality and Business Units to discuss Anti-Counterfeit, People Protection, Meeting Security and Information Security concerns. He also monitors along with North American Supply Chain, IT and Government Affairs compliance to the US Drug Safety Quality Act as it relates to Serialization. Chirag is also supporting his Canadian Supply colleagues for their application into Canadian Customs and Transport Canada government programs. Lastly, Chirag is the DEA Coordinator of record for R&D – monitoring ordering practices, inventory control (annually),
Animal Rights Extremist Activity Monitoring and Subject Matter Expert for Sanofi Security Labels for North America.

Prior to his current role, he was in North America Supply Chain & Distribution starting in 2005 till 2013, where he began as a Sr. Manager in Demand Planning and lastly there as Director of New Product Launches. He managed the supply for key products within the Diabetes, Oncology and MS – Lantus, Apidra, SoloStar, Taxotere, Jevtana, Zaltrap, Aubagio, Lemtrada for North America. He has launched many of these products in the US, by managing large cross-functional teams in order to have an expedited launch once FDA approval. He also managed Distribution projects from Distribution Center consolidation between Pharma and Pasteur, optimization projects etc.

Prior to Sanofi, Chirag built his supply chain experience at Mondeleze/Kraft/Nabisco in consumer goods – forecasting, production planning and in Supply Chain Management Consulting at Accenture.