Icertis Appoints Global Procurement Leader Shashi Mandapaty to Strategic Advisory Board
Icertis, the global leader in
AI-powered contract intelligence, today announced that Shashi Mandapaty has
been appointed to its Strategic Advisory Board as the company builds the
agentic future of contracting. Mandapaty was most recently the Chief Procurement
Officer at Johnson & Johnson, where he led global procurement of more than
$30 billion across 35,000 suppliers to drive innovation and value by embedding
procurement into the broader business ecosystem. Procurement Magazine
recognized Mandapaty as the no. 1 CPO in Healthcare and no. 2 overall CPO in
its Top 100 Leaders for 2025.
Icertis is reimagining the way
procurement teams leverage contracts to build more profitable and resilient
supply chains, navigate regulatory compliance, and accelerate cash flow for
their business. As part of the Icertis Strategic Advisory Board, Mandapaty will
advise the company as it leads procurement to maximize the value of business
relationships and drive strategic decision-making with GenAI-powered agentic
workflows. Mandapaty’s expertise will reinforce the company’s position as the
contract intelligence platform of choice for enterprises as they look to drive
profitability, materially impact business outcomes, and pursue innovation in an
agentic future through enhanced contract performance.
“The true mark of a mature
procurement function is not just savings or scale, but how well it establishes
and nurtures supplier relationships that quietly power some of the most
unexpected innovation and outsized growth. At the heart of those relationships
lies the contract—not as a static document, but as a dynamic, living system of
trust, accountability, and collaboration,” said Mandapaty. “With its deep
integrations across core enterprise systems and agentic workflows built to handle
real-world complexity, Icertis is uniquely positioned to turn contracts into
strategic assets. I look forward to pushing the boundaries of what contract
intelligence can do for modern enterprises.”
“90 percent of procurement leaders have considered or are
already using AI agents to optimize operations in the year ahead. Icertis is
driving this transformation by building agents and agentic workflows into its
enterprise-grade platform to enhance productivity, augment execution, and
increase the ROI from business relationships,” said Samir Bodas, CEO and
Co-founder, Icertis. “Shashi is another powerful strategic advisor for Icertis
as we shape the agentic future of procurement and make autonomous contracting a
reality for the world’s enterprises. He believes in our mission because
contracts sit at the heart of strategic initiatives across every industry. In a
macro environment where change and complexity are all but guaranteed, contract
performance is the cornerstone of long-term business success.”
Mandapaty’s career spans three
continents and multiple industries. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, he
earned industry recognition and delivered measurable results over the course of
more than sixteen years at Procter & Gamble. Beyond his professional life,
Mandapaty is deeply committed to fostering collaborations between leading
healthcare institutions to enable groundbreaking cancer care and research partnerships.
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