Sudhakar has 12+ years of consulting experience in the pharmaceutical industry, and is an expert on Big Data Analytics. Due to his grasp of the understanding and the application of big data analytics, Sudhakar is becoming well known around the pharmaceutical industry and has been a presenter at several national conferences.  Prior to joining SRI, he spent 5 years as Director of Statistical Services at IMS Health.  He is very well versed with most databases used in pharmaceutical industry and has extensively used them with advanced statistical techniques to address business questions. Sudhakar was instrumental in developing applications of patient-level data for pharma clients.  Prior to IMS Health, he worked at ZS associates. Sudhakar holds a MS in Operations Research from Princeton University and Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from (IIT)-Chennai, India.