Annual Revenue Leadership
Led operations across a 175+ location healthcare and retail portfolio.
Healthcare Operations • Transformation • Patient ImpactWaltham, Massachusetts
Building Systems
That Perform at Scale.
Healthcare operator, pharmacist, and MIT Sloan Executive MBA with experience leading $1.5B+ businesses, 5,000-person organizations, national transformation initiatives, and patient-centered healthcare programs.
Operating thesis
See the system. Find the constraint. Design the intervention. Develop the people. Scale what works.
Executive scale
Leadership measured across business, people, systems, and public health.
Team Members
Led a multi-layer organization across New England.
Locations Impacted
Designed enterprise operating-model and talent changes deployed nationally.
Care Facilities
Supported national COVID vaccine execution across long-term-care, senior-living, and related facilities.
Selected impact
Evidence of execution.
Complex problems diagnosed, operating systems redesigned, and measurable outcomes scaled.
Enterprise Transformation
9,000+
Enterprise Operating Model Transformation
Redesigned frontline roles and talent architecture to improve execution, clinical capacity, inventory ownership, and leadership readiness.
Strategy & Analytics
#1
Patient Retention Strategy
Used measurable patient behaviors to build a retention model that became the enterprise standard during footprint optimization.
Crisis Operations / Public Health
150K+
National COVID Vaccine Operations
Helped orchestrate national vaccine execution across care settings under extreme regulatory and workforce complexity.
Patient Outcomes / Digital Transformation
51% → 78%
Patient Adherence & Digital Engagement
Redesigned digital engagement workflows to improve text adoption, adherence, prescription pickup, and pharmacy efficiency.
Clinical Operations / Growth
17
Specialty Pharmacy & URAC
Led a six-month transformation that strengthened clinical standards and expanded specialty-pharmacy market access.
Zero-to-One Healthcare Innovation
5 patients and counting
Breakthrough Health
Built a recovery-center-embedded Hepatitis C navigation model connecting education, testing, treatment, adherence support, and cure confirmation. The pilot has produced five patient cures to date—and continues to grow.
Experience
From clinical practice to enterprise leadership.
Saumil began as a pharmacist serving Boston communities and progressed through Pharmacy Manager, Store Manager, District Manager, corporate special assignment, and Director roles at Walgreens from 2007–2026.
Pharmacist→Pharmacy Manager→Store Manager→District Manager→Corporate Special Assignment→Director
View Experience How I lead
Build leaders,
not dependence.
The strongest operating systems make expectations clear, keep leaders close to the frontline, and turn top talent into teachers.
Explore the leadership systemHealth-tech advisory
Translating operating reality into product strategy.
Strategic advisor to two early-stage health-tech companies, bringing pharmacy operations, clinical workflow, patient experience, and enterprise-scaling perspective to product and go-to-market decisions.
Education & credentials
Education and credentials
Executive MBA
MIT Sloan School of Management
Business Analytics • Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Doctor of Pharmacy
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Registered Pharmacist
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Executive skills
Selected certificates
Massachusetts Institute of Technology