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Karmic Team
Ms. Nidhi Saxena
Founder, President & CEO
     
Dynamic First Generation Woman Entrepreneur with a passion for Lifesciences and adept at building and scaling new businesses from ground-up.  
Over 15 years of global outsourcing/offshoring experience with 5 years in the Clinical Research industry.  
Founded Karmic in 2005, build a robust clinical operations team and state-of-the-art US FDA compliant infrastructure, drove successful forays into key verticals including Oncology, Neurology, Immunology & Medical Devices.  
Spearheaded clinical/regulatory strategy development and execution for 50+ Phase I-IV trials across multiple therapeutic areas
MBA from SP Jain Mumbai, Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Attended several programs in ICH-GCP, CDM/EDC, PVG, Speaker at several clinical and outsourcing conferences, authored clinical industry whitepapers and guest columns.
Previously with GE, WNS North America, Wipro Technologies & Hexaware Technologies (among India’s leading IT/BPO players)

Dr. Shreekant Sapatnekar        
Medical Director & COO     
     

     
Multi-qualified, double MD with MD in Internal Medicine & MD in Community Medicine, MBBS from BJ Medical College Pune, Diploma in Public Health, Diploma in Industrial Health, Diplomate in Management from Jamnalal Bajaj, Mumbai.  
Medical Director at Karmic, 30+ years of Medical Practice, Clinical Research & Teaching Experience. Robust medical knowledge and oversight of several clinical trials and medical research projects particularly in the areas of HIV/Immunology and Infectious Diseases.  
Previously Director of Haffkine Institute Mumbai, prestigious Research & Testing Institute, Founder Director & Dean of Clinical Research Education and Management Academy (CREMA) Mumbai. Earlier Professor of Preventive & Social Medicine for 11 years, Joint Director Medical Education for 6 years and Medical Administrator of a 700 bedded hospital.Member of National Advisory Committee for Bioethics Education in India constituted by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

Dr. MV Nagendran
President – Global Medical Affairs

     
Physician Cardiologist with 18 years of experience in Internal Medicine & 7 years in the Clinical Research Industry.  
MD & Gold Medalist in Internal Medicine from KMC Manipal, earned his certification in Medical Statistics from the UK. 10+ international presentations in South East Asia and USA and 7 International Journal publications till date.  
Managed 20 Pre-Clinical & Clinical projects in a wide spectrum of areas including Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nutraceuticals work includes trial design, protocol development, trial execution, site monitoring and data analysis.,  
He has also served as Secretary of Ethics Committees.

Mr. Sanjiv Maheshwari
 Chief Financial Officer

     
Over 20 years of experience in Financial Planning, Purchasing & Supply Chain Management  
Has served as Supply Chain Manager, Novartis & Syngenta, India in the past and played a strategic role in the integration of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy during the formation of Novartis, India.  
Has served as Vice President Worldwide Operations & CFO, for Apar Technologies.  
Wide exposure in Accounting, Treasury Operations, Management Information Systems and Offshore back-end functions hand has played key role during the integration of Ness and Apar.  

Mr. Sameer Kanwar
 Business Development Head

     
Over 16 years of Strategy,  IT & Outsourcing Experience  
Primarily responsible for driving business development, marketing, global alliances and business networking for Karmic Lifesciences, and providing strategic advise on business model, scale-up plan and execution of 1-3-5 year roadmap  
Global Director, Sales & Marketing, Powerdesk Technologies, responsible for conceptualising and launching a patented IT Product to reduce Operational Expenses of Enterprises  across Power, Space and IT Security.  
Earlier with Ness Technologies, responsible for Strategy & Business Development for UK, Global Pre-sales & Offshore Evangelist, Head, Apar Consulting Solutions Division – Asia-Pac based in Singapore  
Masters in Management Studies & Bachelor in Engineering (Computers), Bombay University  
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