Ram Radhakrishnan

Ram has over 35 years’ experience in Operations, Manufacturing, Strategy and Business Development with Pharmaceutical companies worldwide.
His last assignment was with Strides Arcolab Limited, a US$280 million market cap Indian generic pharmaceutical, contract manufacturing and research company based in Bangalore.
As Executive Director he focused on manufacturing, growth and strategy of the company.
Strides grew 300-fold during his 12 year tenure.
Ram was CEO of Strides Inc, the US subsidiary of Strides Arcolab.
He was fully involved in the negotiations and acquisition of this subsidiary.
Ram provided the leadership and created the team that enabled turning this into a viable entity.
He ensured securing US FDA approval for the plant and raised additional funding for expansion and growth.
Ram is a founder of Stellence Pharmscience, a specialty API company based in Bangalore, India.
Ram started his career in the pharmaceutical division of ICI in India and spent five years there with progressively growing responsibilities.
He was an entrepreneur at age 26 and built a pharmaceutical plant in Goa, India on a green field site and sold it after 7 years.
Thereafter, Ram was keenly involved with a few other Pharmaceutical companies in Germany, India and Hong Kong.
Ram has a Bachelors in Physics and a Masters in Economics.