Company leader
Daya Shankar
Co-Founder and General Manager
ScribeEMR
Daya Shankar is co-founder and general manager of ScribeEMR, a Woburn, Massachusetts, company that provides remote and AI medical scribing, coding, billing and virtual office staff to medical practices.
Nuance and Focus Infomatics
He earned a bachelor of science in computer science from Bangalore University, in Bangalore, India. He was director of operations at Focus Infomatics, where he led its acquisition by Nuance Communications, and then a senior product manager at Nuance.
Co-Founding ScribeEMR
He co-founded ScribeEMR with chief executive Anirudh Baheti, and has spent nearly 20 years as a startup and large-company executive. In 2026 ScribeEMR and its sister company CodeEMR combined under the name Nivaran.