Maria has helped life sciences companies develop and improve their commercial processes and analytics capabilities.

In her role as a general manager of ZAIDYN® Commercial—an analytics platform that optimizes life sciences commercial planning, execution and data analytics—Maria focuses on ways to enable clients to use a variety of ZS analytical software and solutions.

Maria has over 25 years of experience working with pharmaceutical, medical devices and healthcare companies on a diverse array of analytics and technology implementations and strategy issues. She has also been an analytics adviser for pharma and medical device companies, helping clients to establish and advance their analytics capabilities, build analytics centers of excellence and improve business outcomes through advanced data science.

Before joining ZS, Maria held several leadership positions at Pfizer, including its U.S. commercial data warehouse and BI solutions. Prior to that, she led Pfizer’s incentive compensation tech team, where she oversaw systems, processes and technical infrastructure of field compensation, including territory alignment, quota setting, sales reporting, bonuses and awards.

Maria holds a M.S. in computer science from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.