Key People
Dinesh Jain, BE, MBA - Founder CEO
A prolific entrepreneur and a business leader since 1984 with global operating experience in Life Sciences & Information Technology industries. Before starting Aagami, Dinesh has held positions of CEO, President, Vice President in several companies in US, Japan and India. Dinesh has lived and worked in 8 countries across 4 continents.
Dinesh speaks at global conferences and was panelist at MRUN Conference in Oct 2012, Key speaker at IL Science Tech Park conference in "Doing Life Science Business in India" in Jan 2012, CALAsia2009 conference in San Diego CA in June 2009, at Burrill's Life Sciences Conference 2007 Chaired a Table on Opportunities and Challenges in Partnering with Indian Companies.
Michael S Rosen - Partner Consultant
Global senior executive and entrepreneur working since 1974, experienced in starting, growing, managing and financing for profit/not-for-profit life science and healthcare organizations, and creating life science ecosystems.
At Aagami, Michael focuses on Delivery Technologies, Medical Devices, Formulation Differentiators, M&As and Distribution/market access to the regions/countries of Midwest US, Latin America, Germany, Canada and Israel. Michael is an American who has has lived in 5 Latin American countries, 3 European countries, and Japan. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Godwyn Francis - Vice President
At Aagami, Godwyn leads business development and growth efforts for profitable new and existing business. He also leads and oversees research and consulting assignments for global clients.He has worked each year on multiple term sheets and contributed to signing deals worth tens of millions of dollars.
Godwyn brings 23+ years of experience with companies like Accenture, Prudential, Tata, and other firms in management consulting. His experience is spread across licensing, partnering, research, consulting, project delivery, business management, transaction processing and business process simplification.
His work includes regular engagement with top management of life sciences companies globally, including India.He has had a rich work exposure to different geographic locations such as India and UAE in a structured and automated process environment.
Nancy Chew - Regulatory Advisor
A serial entrepreneur, veteran business leader, biochemist and Pharmacologist by education, Regulatory expert, Several top honors & award winner and Advisor to numerous Life Sciences companies.
Nancy's accomplishments and achievements of over 39 years would take several pages to detail.
Shridhar Andurkar, PhD - Scientific Advisor
Chair of Pharmaceutical sciences and Associate Professor at Midwestern University, Chicago College of Pharmacy, is a Ph D from Auburn University in Medicinal Chemistry, Conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Houston.
Dr. Andurkar has published numerous papers and made several presentations in this field. He holds a US patent in the area of anticonvulsant drugs and 3 more patents are pending.
Dr. Aman Ahuja – Medical
A specialist pain medicine physician and consultant at the North Queensland, Australia. MD Anaesthesia from India, Fellow of Royal College of Anaesthetists, Ireland, Masters in Pain Medicine from UK, Fellow of Tess Cramond Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Australia. Dr. Ahuja has focus on clinical practice, research and advancing rational therapies for a diverse range of conditions.
His current interests include studying the expanding role of radiofrequency in field of Pain Medicine. Dr. Ahuja uses a compassionate and multidisciplinary approach in his well known practice as a Pain Specialist and Anaesthetist.