AI Strategy / Veeva Services / Regulated Transformation
Hovsep Kirikian
VP of Strategy & Operations
Hovsep Kirikian is a VP-level operator at the intersection of AI strategy, enterprise technology, and regulated transformation in life sciences. He leads USDM’s Veeva services practice and drives the organizational capabilities needed to responsibly adopt AI — from operating model design to GxP-compliant deployment. With over 20 years of experience spanning enterprise SaaS, program governance, validation, manufacturing, laboratory operations, and data strategy, Hovsep helps executive teams turn ambition into execution inside regulated environments.
AI-ready operations
Architects the operating models, governance structures, and enablement programs that let regulated organizations deploy AI with confidence.
Veeva services
Leads USDM’s Veeva services practice across implementation, optimization, AI-readiness, and customer operating model design.
Executive strategy to execution
Translates C-suite priorities into governed programs that move across validation, technology, and delivery teams without losing momentum.
Hovsep Kirikian's Credentials
Hovsep helps turn AI strategy and enterprise transformation into operating models that regulated teams can actually execute.
His work links executive strategy, AI governance, Veeva services, program management, validation expectations, and operational enablement across the life sciences product lifecycle.
Proof points
Over 20 years of life sciences project and program leadership
Leads USDM’s Veeva services practice
BA in Biological Sciences from California State University
MS in Regulatory Sciences from Johns Hopkins, PMP certified, and Veeva White Belt certified
Primary role
AI-ready strategy and operations
Drives cross-division alignment, operating discipline, and enablement across AI strategy, Veeva services, USDM programs, and customer delivery.
Where he helps
Veeva, SaaS, and regulated transformation
Supports enterprise SaaS implementation, optimization, validation alignment, AI-readiness, and business transformation for regulated teams.
How Hovsep helps clients solve it
Hovsep Kirikian's Resources
Resources that prove the expertise.
A focused shelf of content tied to Hovsep's work across AI strategy, enterprise technology, Veeva services, regulated transformation, and operating model leader.
May 16, 2026
USDM Life Sciences Summit 2026
A USDM summit session series covering digital trust, AI, compliant automation, and workforce enablement.
May 19, 2026
Building an AI-Ready Veeva Vault Operating Model
A practical roadmap for reducing validation overhead, minimizing compliance risk, and preparing Vault operations for AI.
October 14, 2024
Veeva Vault Implementation to Maximize GxP Uses
How USDM helped improve Veeva Vault usage, governance, and GxP value through implementation discipline.
May 14, 2026
Is Your Veeva Vault Delivering the Value You Paid For?
A practical look at configuration debt, process friction, and operating-model gaps inside Veeva Vault environments.
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