Sanjay Dholakia leads SumTotal’s Learning and Talent Management Business Unit, which is focused on advancing the company's market leadership in the learning industry and its integration across the broader talent management space. In directing the business unit, Dholakia is responsible for driving its vision, strategy, and go-to-market activities across channels. Dholakia also maintains responsibility for strategic investing, corporate strategy, and emerging business lines at SumTotal Systems. Previously, as senior vice president for marketing and alliances at SumTotal, Dholakia was responsible for the re-branding of the company and guiding marketing and product management, as well as leading the strategic channels business.

Prior to the formation of SumTotal, Dholakia served as vice president of marketing and business development for Docent, where he was responsible for strategic investing, new partner development, corporate strategy, marketing strategy and emerging business lines. He joined that company as director of corporate and business development in February 2001.

Prior to joining Docent, Dholakia served as director of business development and acting COO for Pulse, a portfolio company within Walker Digital, a business incubation and intellectual property firm. Prior to Walker Digital, Dholakia served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and Andersen Consulting advising Fortune 500 companies from a broad range of industries on core strategic and operational issues, delivering multi-million-dollar operational improvements, leading teams to analyze performance, developing business models, establishing strategic partnerships and implementing findings.

Dholakia holds a Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.