Alliance Group Directors

Sandor Schoichet has spent over 20 years helping executive clients respond to changing business demands by defining and achieving operational, product development, and process improvement objectives.  Sandor’s recent consulting work has focused on operations strategy, capital planning, business process redesign, change management, and program leadership.  He is adept at understanding and articulating complex requirements from multiple stakeholder perspectives, developing strategic consensus, and building effective management and technical teams.  

In addition to working directly with clients like Genentech, Novartis, Illumina, and BioMarin, Sandor also produces two invitation-only events for senior biopharma industry executives, the Capital Asset Management Roundtable and the Sustainability Roundtable.  Through the Roundtables, Sandor has developed strong insight into the annual budgeting and capital planning cycle, capital project delivery, and enterprise process governance, as well as sustainability strategy, and operational integration.

Sandor’s recent work has increasingly focused on early-stage C-team advisory services, and on start-up mentoring through the UCSF BioEntrepreneurship Program and the MIT Venture Mentoring Service.  His unusual background in IT, product development, and life sciences lets him add value to clean tech and network software startups in addition to medical device, mobile health, and clinical product companies.  He first got involved with the local start-up community through producing a series of events for the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) on bio-nanotech devices and biofuels.

Before starting Meridian Management Consultants in 2009, Sandor worked for international consulting firms like PRTM (acquired by PwC), small advisory firms like Acumen Sciences, and as an independent consultant.  He has also been a senior operational manager responsible for IT strategy and implementation at several biotech, web service, and systems integration firms, including stints as Director of Information Sciences for Medical Affairs at Genentech and CIO for bioinformatics start-up Gorilla Genomics.  Earlier in his career, Sandor was a systems integration division leader through the IPO of Teknekron Communications Systems, an international software program manager working in telecommunications, finance, and logistics, and a logic systems product engineer.

Sandor earned EE and MS degrees from MIT in Computer Science, where he studied artificial intelligence, distributed computing, and business process reengineering.  He also completed a joint Sloan-Harvard minor program in Management of Innovation.  He has undergraduate degrees in both Information Science and Philosophy from UCSC, where he serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the School of Engineering.  He is an active sailor, racer, and ASA certified keelboat instructor.