Avi Sharma

Senior Project Manager & Risk Lead at Diligent Corporation

Own end-to-end delivery of multi-stream enterprise SaaS initiatives, managing scope, schedule, cost, quality, and delivery risk across banking, commercial, and public sector portfolios. Lead formal risk management activities aligned with PMI-RMP practices, including risk identification, qualitative assessment, mitigation planning, and escalation. Establish and maintain project and program RAID logs, proactively managing regulatory, licensing, technical, vendor, and resourcing risks. Implement delivery governance frameworks with risk-based reporting, enabling executive visibility into exposure, dependencies, and mitigation effectiveness. Lead cross-functional teams (engineering, product, legal, content) and directly manage six engineers, ensuring accountability for delivery and risk controls. Serve as primary interface with external regulatory bodies and government agencies, managing external dependency and compliance risk. Maintained 100% licensing and regulatory compliance, eliminatin

Program Manager – Governance, Risk & Transformation at AuditBoard

Led enterprise-scale programs focused on governance, risk, audit, and compliance transformation. Managed program-level risk across multiple workstreams, coordinating mitigation strategies with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success. Designed and delivered an Authority Matrix program, strengthening control environments and reducing operational and compliance risk. Established standardized risk escalation paths, change control processes, and executive steering mechanisms. Improved delivery predictability by embedding risk assessment and control points into program execution models. Enabled scalable, repeatable solutions by integrating risk management directly into delivery frameworks.

Project Manager – Agile Delivery & Operational Risk at Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.)

Managed delivery of operational and product initiatives within a high-growth SaaS environment, balancing speed with delivery and operational risk. Implemented Agile delivery practices that improved sprint completion rates by 30% while reducing release and dependency risk. Identified delivery risks related to resourcing, cross-team dependencies, and release timing, implementing mitigation strategies to maintain roadmap integrity. Introduced KPI-driven dashboards (Looker, Salesforce) to monitor delivery health, risk trends, and performance outcomes.

Technical Project Manager – Regulatory & Automation Solutions at Diligent Corporation (formerly Galvanize)

Delivered regulatory content and automation initiatives for U.S. public sector clients with high regulatory and compliance risk profiles. Developed project scopes, schedules, risk registers, and implementation plans aligned with regulatory constraints. Managed vendor and third-party risk across content providers, ensuring quality, licensing compliance, and on-time delivery. Partnered with engineering teams to implement automated compliance workflows, reducing operational risk and manual effort.