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Karmic Team |
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Leadership Team |
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Ms. Nidhi Saxena
Founder, President & CEO
The Strategist
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| “Don't just think that you are the one, know that you are the one” – The Matrix |
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Passionate about life sciences and adept at building and scaling new businesses from ground-up, Nidhi founded Karmic Lifesciences in 2005 and envisioned it as a full-service CRO with global delivery capability, a strong Oncologyfocus and a robust technology back-end. |
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Nidhi brings in over 15 years of global outsourcing/offshoring experience with 6 years in the Clinical Research industry. She has driven successful forays into key verticals including Oncology, Neurology and Medical Devices and has spearheaded the clinical/regulatory strategy development and execution for 50+ Phase I-IV trials. She has also conceptualized kClinionTM, kTrialsTM and kMetricsTM, Karmic’s state-of-the-art,proprietary suite of web-based clinical platforms.Nidhi has featured in several leading business publications including Business Today, ET Now, Express Pharma and written and presented industry thought leadership papers at several global and Indian forums including the IBM Knowledge Exchange, Pharma Outsourcing Congress etc. |
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Nidhi holds an MBA from SP Jain, Mumbai and is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. She has previously worked with GE Capital, WNS North America, Wipro Technologies and Hexaware Technologies, among India’s leading IT/BPO players. Nidhi is the Chairperson on the Karmic Board of Directors. |
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Dr. Shreekant Sapatnekar
Medical Director & COO
The Expert |
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| “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it”. – Michelangelo |
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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. |
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Over 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. |
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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. |
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Dr. Chetan Desai
Director – Operations
The Pharmacologist
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| “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness” – Joan Miro |
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A keen pharmacologist and an operations specialist, Dr. Chetan has over 10 years of clinical trial experience with robust expertise of ICH-GCP, Project Management as well as Medical and Regulatory Affairs and an established track record of planning and execution of some of the major global multinational Phase II and III Studies with 60-600 patients across US, Europe and India. |
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Dr. Desai has been associated with some of the most recognized Pharma and CRO organizations including Pfizer, Piramal Healthcare and CliniRx where he held senior positions, managed large teams and spearheaded clinical operations. At Karmic, he is responsible for heading the operations group, providing clinical and medical oversight and managing 50+ resources across US and India. He is further responsible for playing a major role in the selection, training and mentoring of Clinical Project Managers and Monitors as well as developing global sites for Oncology, Neurology and a host of other therapeutic specialities |
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Dr. Desai is an MD in Pharmacology and MBBS from Seth G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai and has a brilliant academic record being a gold medalist throughout. Dr. Desai serves as Director on the Karmic Board. |
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Dr. Amita Birla
Associate Director, Operations
The Executor |
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| “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world ” . – George W Carver |
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MBA in Operations from NIM, MBBS, Diploma in Child Health from Mumbai University. |
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Has been a Medical Monitor for more than 10+ Global Trials involving US FDA, EMEA as well as DCGI Submissions on various occasions. |
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Has been instrumental in spearheading active In House Training for new recruits, disease therapeutics, protocol and safety training during her past engagements. |
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Has been Medical Advisor to RPG Life Sciences and Nectid Pharma supporting Medico marketing, clinical trial and regulatory affair initiatives. Has also been associated with organizations such as SIRO- leading the Project Training, Medical and Safety Monitoring activities. |
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Richard Purcell
President – North America
The Rain Maker |
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| “For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.” – ZigZiglar |
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Rich started his career as a Molecular Biologist and has experience of over 20 years with major pharmaand biotechnology companies in leadership roles. |
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Rich was earlier the President of ClinPro Inc. (US based CRO) where he headed the company’s Business Development, Strategic Planning, Sales & IT Operations. Prior to that, he was the Corporate VP & GM of the Clinical Program Division of SCP Communications, where he designed and managed a number of clinical programs for drugs such a Lipitor, Avandia, Accolate etc. At Karmic, Rich is responsible for driving the US business development and operations effort and providing oversight to key account relationships. He also consults the Karmic Board on US strategy and planning activities. |
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Rich graduated with a degree in Biochemical Sciences from Princeton University and attended the Rutgers Graduate School. |
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SanjivMaheshwari
Chief Financial Officer
The Deal Maker |
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| “To make a million, start with $900,000!” — Morton Shulman |
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Sanjiv brings over 20 years of experience in Financial Planning, Purchasing & Supply Chain Management and has served as Supply Chain Manager in 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. He hasfurther served as Vice President Worldwide Operations & CFO, Apar Technologies. Saniv is further a partner at Basil Growth Corporation, the PE fund that has invested in Karmic. |
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Sanjiv brings wide exposure in Accounting, Treasury Operations, Management Information Systems and Offshore back-end functions and provides oversight to the finance function at Karmic. Sanjiv serves as Director on the Karmic Board. |
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Advisory Team |
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Dr. Mandar Oak
Senior Advisor – Bio-Statistics
The Statistician |
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Dr. Oak is an independent consultant and trainer on Biostatistics, CDM, Data Standards, SAS Programming and Clinical IT implementation. |
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At Karmic, Dr. Oak primarily provides oversight and consults the Bio-Statistics and SAS programming teams on SOPs as well as SAP and SAR reviews. He also supports the CDISC-SDTM training for the data management team and is consulting the team on advanced areas such as Adaptive Designs, ADaM and CDASH initiatives. |
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Has served as Vice President Worldwide Operations & CFO, for Apar Technologies. |
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Dr. Oak is an MD Pharmacology from Seth G.S. Medical College and has previously worked with organizations such as Novartis and SiroClinpharm. He is also visiting faculty and examiner at the Department of Statistics, Mumbai University. |
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