Murali Mani

At Sema4, Murali is responsible for governance, risk and compliance, and ensuring trust and transparency with patients, regulators, clients, institutional review boards, and business partners. He drives policies and procedures, and internal and external audits to comply with key regulations, standards, and certifications. Prior to joining Sema4 in September 2020, Murali was the Director of Compliance at IBM Watson Health where he built a quality and compliance program for an extensive portfolio of SaaS and on-premises health products and services in more than 10 countries. He also established data governance frameworks and workflows for health data analytics on datasets with more than 300 million patients. Before joining Watson Health, Murali was the Senior Privacy Officer for Philips Group Innovation, with responsibility for overseeing several hundred human subject studies across approximately a dozen countries. Murali has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and holds Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and Project Management Professional (PMP) credentials from the International Association of Privacy Professionals and Project Management Institute, respectively.