Shashi Mandapaty
Advisor
As Chief Procurement Officer at Johnson & Johnson, Shashi leads global Procurement of $30B+ across 35,000 suppliers, delivering innovation, resilience, and value by embedding Procurement into the broader supply chain and business ecosystem. With a career spanning three continents (Asia, Europe, North America), industries (CPG, Pharma, MedTech), and functions (Procurement, Supply Chain, Marketing, Global Operations, IT-enabled Transformation), he brings a unique end-to-end perspective to driving global impact.
World-class Supply Chains and Procurement share two essential qualities: business-centricity and digital acumen. Guided by this mindset, Shashi has built global organizations that align Procurement with supply chain and business operations, creating synergies that drive measurable results. His work at Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble has earned industry recognition and delivered transformative outcomes.
Beyond work, as a beneficiary of advances in cancer research, he is deeply committed to fostering collaborations between leading healthcare institutions. For example, he connected NCI Nagpur (India) with the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and MD Anderson Cancer Center, enabling groundbreaking cancer care and research partnerships.
This vision of creating a better world guides him both professionally and personally.