Leadership

Leadership Built for Regulated Global Life Sciences Communication

Sesen is led by a team with deep experience in life sciences translation, localization operations, quality management, AI-enabled multilingual workflows, and global client support. Our leadership brings together language industry expertise, regulated content discipline, and technology-driven execution to help pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, CRO, and healthcare organizations communicate accurately across markets.

Judgment

High-stakes clinical, regulatory, labeling, medical device, and safety content

Operations

Global project delivery, client-specific workflows, terminology governance, and review coordination

Innovation

SesenGPT, AI-assisted QA, expert human review, and multilingual validation for suitable content

Clinical / Regulatory / Labeling / Medical Devices / AI-Enabled Workflows

Meet Sesen Leadership

Executive Leadership

Sesen's senior leadership brings together global language operations, life sciences domain expertise, quality oversight, data security, clinical strategy, and AI-enabled workflow innovation to support regulated multilingual programs with confidence.

Shunee Yee

Founder & CEO

Shunee Yee provides the entrepreneurial and strategic leadership behind Sesen, bringing more than 25 years of experience in global language technology, multilingual content operations, and AI-enabled communication for enterprise organizations. She was named a Fortune Top Ten Most Powerful Women Entrepreneur, and CNN called her one of the technology industry's 36 most powerful disrupters. She is also a board member of Beth Israel Lahey Health's Joslin Diabetes Center and a Steering Committee member of the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Round Table.

Her leadership gives clients confidence that Sesen combines focused life sciences expertise, global multilingual operating experience, and a forward-looking vision for language technology and regulated communication.

Diego Di Leva

Vice President, Global Operations & Strategic Partnership

Diego leads global operations, project management, and strategic partnership initiatives, bringing deep experience in quality assurance, translation operations, and scalable localization program management. He is certified in ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 quality management standards.

His leadership supports the operational foundation behind Sesen's client programs, including delivery coordination, ISO-aligned quality expectations, resource planning, and scalable support for complex multilingual work.

Paul Canton

Vice President, Data Security & Chief of Staff

Paul brings more than 20 years of experience in the life sciences language services space, including earlier work with ForeignExchange, one of the early translation companies focused on life sciences. He supports Sesen's security, infrastructure, and organizational coordination, helping align technology operations, client service expectations, and enterprise risk management across global multilingual programs.

His leadership combines long-standing life sciences translation industry experience with the systems, coordination, and security-minded practices needed to support confidential content and enterprise client requirements.

Carl Yao

Vice President, Strategic Business Development & AI Innovations

Carl drives strategic business development and translation technology initiatives, combining language industry experience with AI-focused workflow strategy for scalable multilingual content delivery. He works closely with clients to identify practical ways to apply AI-enabled human translation, terminology governance, and quality validation to regulated life sciences content. His work helps connect Sesen's commercial strategy with product innovation, enterprise client needs, and scalable multilingual operating models.

His leadership helps connect client needs with modern translation workflows, including terminology governance, SesenGPT, expert human review, and quality validation for suitable regulated content.

Vladimir (Vlado) Misik

VP, Global Clinical Trial Strategy

Vlado brings more than 30 years of biomedical R&D and clinical trial experience, supporting Sesen's understanding of global study operations, clinical research requirements, and regulated life sciences communication. His background spans clinical development, biopharmaceutical research, regulatory strategy, and the operational realities of conducting studies across countries and patient populations. He helps strengthen Sesen's perspective on the clinical context behind study documents, patient-facing materials, investigator communication, and multilingual trial support.

His leadership brings clinical trial perspective to Sesen's support for sponsors, CROs, and life sciences teams managing multilingual study documentation and global research communication.

Team Sesen

Sesen's leadership team brings together global language operations, life sciences expertise, technology direction, quality management, and client partnership experience to support regulated multilingual programs across markets.

Leadership Across the Organization

Leadership Across Sesen's Multilingual Life Sciences Work

Beyond the executive team, Sesen's leadership model extends across the functions that shape reliable life sciences translation: quality oversight, global operations, technology, clinical and regulatory context, client delivery, and professional linguistic resources.

Quality & Compliance

Translation quality, review discipline, documentation, and ISO-aligned operating practices

Global Operations

Multilingual delivery coordination across markets, teams, timelines, and recurring client programs

Technology & AI

SesenGPT, terminology systems, translation memory, AI-assisted QA, and workflow enablement

Clinical & Regulatory Strategy

Context for clinical trials, submissions, labeling, safety content, medical devices, and healthcare communication

Client Delivery

Program management, communication, reviewer coordination, escalation handling, and relationship continuity

Linguistic Resources

Professional native translators, reviewers, subject-matter resources, and regional language expertise

Leadership Principles

Principles That Guide Sesen's Leadership

Sesen's leadership principles reflect the expectations of regulated life sciences organizations: sound judgment, human expertise, workflow discipline, and global execution.

Regulated Content Comes First

Clinical, regulatory, labeling, medical device, and safety content require accuracy, context, documentation, and careful review.

Human Expertise Guides Technology

SesenGPT and AI-enabled workflows support speed and consistency, while expert human review remains central to regulated translation quality.

Quality Is Built Into the Workflow

Terminology governance, translation memory, QA checks, reviewer coordination, and version control are part of how work is managed.

Global Execution Requires Local Expertise

Professional native translators, regional reviewers, and multilingual project teams help life sciences content work across markets.

Leadership Perspective

A Message From Sesen Leadership

We believe life sciences translation is ultimately a matter of trust.

Every clinical study document, regulatory submission, product label, IFU, patient communication, and medical software interface carries meaning that must be understood clearly across languages and markets. Sesen was built to support that responsibility through specialized life sciences expertise, disciplined multilingual operations, and practical innovation. Our leadership team is committed to combining professional human judgment with terminology governance, translation memory, SesenGPT, AI-assisted QA, and final human review so clients can move faster without losing control of quality. As global life sciences communication becomes more complex, our focus remains simple: help clients communicate accurately, consistently, and confidently wherever their content needs to go.

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