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Venkata Shiva

Hyderabad

Summary

Multi-talented, result driven, customer focused, collaborative, techno-marketing professional with over three decades of pharmaceutical business experience.Visionary executive implements plans that meet current and future business needs. Key expertise in industry.

Overview

33
33
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

COO, India

Quest Pharmaceutical Services
Hyderabad
01.2016 - Current

Responsible for all activities in India. Key member of the global strategic team.

Oversee financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting to ensure sustainable growth and profitability. Defined and achieved aggressive revenue targets.

Developed and executed a long-term strategic roadmap for the company's growth, with a focus on scaling revenue and expanding market share.

Manage relationships with investors, partners, and key stakeholders to drive business performance and secure future growth opportunities.

Develop and implement strategies to expand footprint in key global markets.

Lead and manage sales and marketing teams to drive customer acquisition, market expansion, and brand development in the global market. Cross-selling of global services to local companies.

Collaborated with the marketing team for business development, partnerships, and enterprise-level client relationships.

Fostered a culture of innovation, worked closely with product teams and third parties to evolve and expand offerings in line with market demand.

Implemented quality by design, enterprise risk management principles in the product and clinical development.

Collaborated with other C-level executives in developing business strategies.

Executive Director

Bioserve Research
Hyderabad
10.2004 - 01.2016

Co-founder of Bioserve (Employee: 001). Built the organization from ideation. Responsible for Profit and Loss of the organization. Reporting to the board of directors.

Responsible for all activities, including marketing, product development, clinical research, human resources, and finance operations.

Developed and implemented strategic B2B business to expand services. Developed annual marketing calendar.

Participated in several international pharmaceutical business events, including CPHI, GIA, AOAC, and GPhA.

Established B2B relationships to secure product development and clinical research business opportunities with global pharmaceutical, biologics, and medical device manufacturing.

Collaborated with innovator and product development companies to develop their generic products in India.

Developed leachability and extractability testing services for global pharmaceutical companies.

Lead the team in 30+ regulatory inspections (USFDA, WHO, MHRA, EMA, and ISO).

Deputy Manager

Aurobindo Pharma
Hyderabad
03.2001 - 10.2004

Responsible for business transformation from non-regulatory markets to highly regulated markets. Contributed to the development of a strategic business plan for drug products and substances.

Collaborated with senior management to design and establish six (6) modern, green manufacturing products for sterile and non-sterile drug product and substance manufacturing.

Developed internal packaging materials design and manufacturing operations, including ISO 15378 certification.

Collaborated with senior management, research, and marketing to identify future projects for the development of generic drugs for developed markets (US, Europe, Canada, and Australia).

Collaborated with marketing and research teams, and supplier, to discuss packaging specifications for all products, for all markets.

Meeting with the design and marketing teams to discuss packaging specifications and confirm budgets.

Lead the team in 30+ product technology transfer, process validation, and commercialization.

Lead the team in preparation and review of 100+ regulatory dossiers, and handling regulatory queries.

Lead the team in 25+ regulatory inspections, including USFDA, WHO, EMA, MHRA, and ISO.

Assistant Manager

Bakelite Hylam
Hyderabad
01.1998 - 02.2001

Established a robust compliant handling procedure and processes.

Implemented continuous improvement processes, including Business Process Re-engineering, Six Sigma, and total quality management, in the business operations.

Implemented statistical quality control in the operations. Built KPIs and Dashboards using Excel.

Established quality management system in multiple manufacturing and research facilities.

Management representative for all 15+ ISO inspections.

Chemist

Natco Pharma
Hyderabad
08.1994 - 12.1997

Establishment of a quality management system.

Contributed to 20+ product technology transfers, process validations, and commercializations.

Vendor development, qualification, auditing, and evaluation of 200+ vendors (packaging and critical raw materials).

Contributed to 10+ regulatory inspections in drug product and substance manufacturing.

Lead the team in internal quality audits planning, conducting, reporting, and closure.

Contributed to the preparation, submission, and handling of regulatory queries for 30+ marketing dossiers.

Junior Chemist

Dr Reddy's
Hyderabad
09.1991 - 03.1994

Testing of packaging and raw material for drug product manufacturing.

Prepared technical specifications for packaging, raw materials, and finished products.

Prepared and reviewed analytical testing methods for packaging and raw materials.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure packaging solutions meet product, regulatory, and market needs.

Work with suppliers and product development teams to ensure the feasibility of designs.

Conduct research on materials, technologies, and trends in pharmaceutical packaging.

Developed and validated 20+ analytical methods.

Contributed to long-term stability for 20+ products.

Contributed to 8+ regulatory inspections (Russia, EMA, USFDA, and ISO).

Education

MBA - Finance & Operations

Indian Institute of Commerce And Trade
Lucknow, India
09-2011

Master of Science - Medicinal And Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Institute of Indian Chemists
Kolkata, India
11-2003

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry, Mathematics And Physics

Osmania University
Hyderabad, India
06-1991

Skills

Strategic Marketing

Packaging Materials

Sales & Revenue Management

Profit & Loss Management

Revenue Growth

Innovation & Product Development

Global Expansion

Finance Management

Quality by Design

Business Risk Management

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1

Certification

  • Blackbelt in Lean Six Sigma
  • Lead ISO Auditing

Timeline

COO, India

Quest Pharmaceutical Services
01.2016 - Current

Executive Director

Bioserve Research
10.2004 - 01.2016

Deputy Manager

Aurobindo Pharma
03.2001 - 10.2004

Assistant Manager

Bakelite Hylam
01.1998 - 02.2001

Chemist

Natco Pharma
08.1994 - 12.1997

Junior Chemist

Dr Reddy's
09.1991 - 03.1994

MBA - Finance & Operations

Indian Institute of Commerce And Trade

Master of Science - Medicinal And Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Institute of Indian Chemists

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry, Mathematics And Physics

Osmania University
Venkata Shiva