HITEN MEHTA

Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

• Establishing R&D and application lab for the future business growth for niche business verticals.
• Providing technical inputs to the business development teams for organic and inorganic growths.
• Motivating synthetic, analytical and formulation team to achieve their individual goals to achieve organisational goals with regular interaction, appreciation and constructive feedback.
• Product stewardship using internal EOHS, EPRP, certifications for products for REACH, EPA, NSF/ANSI, Food chemical codex, FDA compliance, Kosher, Halal, ISO 9001, CIB, BIS registration, Green Pro, Oeko-Tex, Eco mark.
• Identify new segments and markets that require new products and work in collaboration with marketing to develop new products and applications
• Estabilishment of Plasticizer Centre.
• Establishment of Chlorine value added product range.
• Chart out the mandate for the Application Development Centre.
• Prepare and pursue Annual P&B for R & D Centre and seek necessary budget approvals
• Preparation of monthly MIS dashboards and deck presentation in reviews. (Meeting with BH, SBU Head, CMO & CEO)
• Selection of skilled technical resources at R&D Centre
• Understand and analyze the existing market trends, in-house competencies and propose development.
• Ensure field testing of products to map them to the range of applications.
• Work closely with Supply chain in optimizing and standardizing raw materials and testing procedures
• Coordinate with Government agencies to complete the requisites and file necessary applications.
• Identify and collaborate with recognized institutes/ organization to collaborate on the research projects.
• Identification of required certification and ensuring requirement for existing certificates for all the products for DCA
• Supporting the Units for annual audits and ensuring closure of NCs
• Extend support to the manufacturing team for improvement in existing products and processes.
• Set up pilot tests, quality plans, procedures, documentations and report
• Assist marketing in developing product data sheets, brochures, and other supporting documents
• Extend support to the manufacturing team for improvement in existing processes.
• Have clear goals & review mechanism for all the team members.
• Formulate training plans for the Team.
• Provide regular guidance, motivation & clear directions to team members.
• Build knowledge pool at Center by evaluating raw material, products and applications.
• Regular trainings on NPD/ Application/ trends for internal team and dealers / customers
• Closely work with customers to identify issues and accordingly work out solutions
• Organize pilot and plant scale trails at customer site
• Management of customer complaints, Improvement and communication to management
• Attend seminars and exhibitions to make presentations research findings.
• Ensure publication and patenting of research findings
• Ensuring safety practices in the laboratory at all levels including metrological conditions
• Ensure implementation of all the HR processes and policies
• Established Application Development lab as a key technical centre for projects having multistage organic synthesis within BU-ICS and to other Business units as well globally.
• Establishing relations with internal stakeholders, customers, universities and experts from various vertical from various part of the world to enhance organisational brand value.
• Developing the business portfolio for new branch of products within BU for next 5-10 years envisioning the market
• Supporting customer’s for their technical queries by providing suitable solutions with regards to IP compliance, regulatory compliance, quality and formulations
• Exploring opportunities for utilizing resources to attain organizational short term and long term goals.
• Determining the existing molecules for the scope of cost reduction, process improvement for cost reduction and implementing changes under regulatory guidance.
• Discovering the new molecules for long term and short term vision to improve the product portfolio with the help of marketing team.
• Scrutinising the raw material from the vendors for vender qualification and to suggest proper specification for the raw material to avoid surprises.
• Effectively deriving non-infringement strategies along with the IP team for projects for global market for each region
• Ascertaining filing of patent applications for the novel route, reagents used and polymorphs to conserve the advantages with the support of IP team.
• Deciding IP strategies for the projects with IP team and management for the development of the actives with IP clearance of non-infringing / freedom to operate process, polymorphs, intermediates in concordance with European cosmetic act, Halal, US-FDA guidelines.
• Streamlining process parameters for identifying critical factors involved at each stage of process & defining operable range using DOE to ensure QbD which is recommended by Q10 to minimize OOS at scale up level.
• Effectively creating process out line, process package and lab development report for the filling steps as per CMC guidelines.
• Monitoring reactions of various types and sensitive reagents handling from lab to plant level considering the safety parameters.
• Examining the low & high pressure reactions including hydrogenations using various catalyst or high pressure reflux in close system and cryogenic reactions are carried out from lab to plant levels.
• Validating the process and devising the specifications for the intermediates and finish goods having concern with the regulatory group.
• Organising scale-up studies at kilo lab or pilot plant levels for tuning the process for the scalable purpose considering the risk management factors with the technology transfer team.
• Spearheading the exhibit campaign for DMF filing as well as mapping SOPs as per regulatory guidelines for the new set up.

• Research & Development
• Laboratory Set-up & Operations
• Business Development
• Strategize business opportunities
• Customer technical engagement
• Associating with Universities
• Regulatory and legal compliance
• Project Execution with CFT
• Departmental administration
• Technical due diligence
• Cost reduction
• Cross functional co-ordination

• Core focus on managing R&D pipeline for committed timelines and commercials within CAPEX and budget agreed for financial year with efficient work distribution to FTEs to support various business verticals.
• Finding alternate approaches to maintain lean organisational structure.
• Supporting marketing team to identify new products for future portfolio pipeline.
• Developed infrastructure of R&D in the vision of CAPEX and activities planned for the year.
• Developing business with customer interactions and need, creating project proposals, helping management to screen most suitable projects for expanding project portfolio and for sustainable growth
• Played a vital role in selection of the synthetic routes based on the literature / patent applications for a given product and to strategize for non-infringing and cost effective route.
• Functioned as Group Leader in the API Process Development and Specialty Chemical Process Development (For Regulatory and Non-Regulatory Market).
• Successfully worked for: API groups like Proton Pump Inhibitors, Leukotriene Receptor Antagonist, (PDE5 Inhibitor) for Erectile Dysfunction, Antihypertensive Molecules, COMT Inhibitor for the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, Antibiotics, Antiemetic (SPA Inhibitor), Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitor (For Hyperuricemia in Chronic Gout), Molecule used for Treatment of Interstitial Cystitis, Hypnotic Agent, Antipsychotic, etc.
• Para IV projects following strict timelines with proper non infringing strategies.
• Specialty active chemicals used in personal care as vitamins, sun-screens, anti-fungal agent, anti-ageing, skin lightening/ whitening, antiperspirant and water treatment actives etc.
• Instrumental in setting-up lab and the systems for Chemical Research Division.
• Efficiently developed novel polymorphs, polymorph mixtures and amorphous forms using various techniques like spray drying, crystalliser, lyophiliser and TFE.
• Devised HHI projects along with generating documents for CIB licensing as well as CRAM projects within stringent time frame and filed DMF for the customer.
• Key focus is on cross-functional support to achieve organisational goals by associating, delegation and following up.
• Distinction of developing over 100 projects, entailing APIs, Prostaglandins, CRAM Projects, HHI Projects, API Intermediates, Specialty chemicals and their technology transfer at various production sites.
• Stellar at developing API products and few specialty chemical products, which still have the best process in the market in terms of costing and scalability.

• Grasim Chemicals-DCA, Vilayat Bharuch, Bharuch, Gujarat, Assistant Vice President R&D, 10/2021
• Gulbrandsen Technologies India, Bharuch, Gujarat, General Manager R&D, 02/2020, 09/2021
• Clariant Chemicals, Hyderabad, Telangana, Head Application Development, 10/2012, 01/2020
• Unimark Remedies Limited, Bavla, Ahmedabad, Senior Manager, 06/2011, 10/2012
• Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited, Dholka, Ahmedabad, Manager, 06/2010, 05/2011
• Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd., Gurgaon, Haryana, 05/2005, 05/2010

• Synthesis & Applications of Functionalized Macrocyclic Compounds, Project Work
• Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 127(9), 1228-1234 (English) 2006 Elsevier., International Research Publications
• Turk Journal of Chemistry, 34 (2010), 417-426., International Research Publications
• Journal of Macromolecular Science – PAC, 48,148-154, 2011., International Research Publications
• Selective Methods for the Separation of Cr (III) and W (VI) using Chromogenic Aza Crown Ether, Research Presentations / Acceptance in International Conferences
• Synthesis of Chromoionophore, Alizarin linked Aza Crown Ether for the Selective Extraction and Liquid Membrane Transport Studies of Zr (IV), Research Presentations / Acceptance in International Conferences
• Alizarin based Aza Crown Ether-Zr Complex for the Selective Liquid Membrane Transportation of Fluoride Ions, Research Presentations / Acceptance in International Conferences

• UV-Visible Spectroscopy
• FT-IR
• DTA
• TGA
• DSC
• Spectrofluorimeter
• SFC
• GC
• ICP-AES
• HPLC

• US 20120184750
• US 20120184751
• US 20120277426
• US 20100004242
• US 8080656
• EP 3674293A1