Shabbir Dahod

Chief Executive Officer TraceLink

Shabbir Dahod is President and Chief Executive Officer of TraceLink and a member of the company’s board of directors. He co-founded the company in 2009 with a vision of building a business that will transform how life science companies manage the manufacturing, packaging, distribution, and dispensing of pharmaceutical products across a network of trading partners in the global life sciences supply chain.

For well over a decade, Dahod has dedicated himself to pharmaceutical supply chain integrity, making it his mission to protect patients around the world. A few years before the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) was passed, Dahod launched TraceLink and introduced the Life Sciences Cloud, a cloud-based software platform hosted by Amazon Web Services that has become the world’s largest track and trace network for the life sciences supply chain. His passion for cutting-edge technology and business model innovation was the driving force behind what is now the de-facto industry standard for meeting time-bound global regulatory compliance requirements and protecting patients across the globe from the threat of counterfeit medicines.

Early in his career, Dahod worked with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at his Seattle-based startup, Asymetrix, where he established the company as a leader in Multimedia Authoring technology in the computer based learning market. With Allen, Dahod researched and incubated a number of emerging web-based products and technologies, including early initiatives in e-commerce, natural language query, online sports, digital media, and Java development tools. He eventually served as a Senior Executive of the Paul Allen group of companies, and later joined Microsoft as a Senior Leader to spearhead collaboration and knowledge management efforts using emerging XML standards and new Internet communication tools.

Dahod holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science from Boston University.