Johanna Erazo

Chief Operating Officer

Johanna joined Sankofa to support the day-to-day administration and business operations. She completed her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Johanna has several years of experience in supply chain management in the automotive industry, where she focused on creating strategies to decrease costs, negotiating new capacity and increasing productivity savings.

She has also worked in project management/business development. She led the national deployment of a patient self-service kiosk for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs with the objective being the adaptation of a new product into the VA hospital system to ease processes and update patient records. Prior to her career in business, Johanna was a biologist who did research in academia and in the biotech industry. She has published her research from Boston University Medical School’s Orthopedics Department and holds a patent from developing a biological assay during her tenure in the biotechnology industry.