CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL
BACKGROUND LEADING UP TO AND INCLUDING YOUR CURRENT ROLE? My journey with Aragen (formerly,
GVK BIO) started way back in 2007. I joined as the President and then became the Director and CEO in
2009. Over the years, the company has emerged as a leading R&D and manufacturing solutions provider to
the global life sciences industry. During this tenure, Aragen Bio-sciences (based out of CA, USA) was acquired in 2014 to expand service offerings for large molecules. We were probably the first Indian CRO to make an
overseas acquisition as a part of our inorganic growth. In my current role, I am responsible for the overall
growth, providing strategic direction and shaping the culture of the company.
SIGNIFICANT HIGHLIGHTS
Our journey over the last two decades has been a journey demonstrating our consistent growth, our continued
transformation to meet our customer’s ever growing needs. We started as an informatics company in 2001. Ever since then, we have brought in diverse range of capabilities /capacities in chemistry, biology, process development,
manufacturing, formulation development and analytical services to become an end-to-end integrated discovery-development manufacturing solutions partner to our customers. From a single site operation in Hyderabad, we now operate out of seven locations (including one in US). To reach out to our customers, we now have a global BD team situated out of US, EU and Japan.We are now recognized as one of the market
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