Ravi Kaushik is the VP, Global Head of Device and Digital Development and Product Strategy where he is responsible for driving innovation for Plasma Derived Therapies and leads a team of engineers, digital and product management organization. Ravi joined Takeda in 2021 as the VP, Global Program Leader, PDT Integrated Care Solutions where he has formed a Global Program team (GPT) to cross-functionally drive patient and donor centered integrated care solutions with devices/digital innovations to help drive better patient outcomes while growing the PDT business

Earlier, Mr Kaushik was the CEO for TransAsia Biomedical Ltd. (a large IVD company) where he led & drove the Strategy, Product Development & Launch Execution, Leadership Team Management, Business development & growth with P&L Responsibility (~ $120MM) and 1200 employees globally.

Earlier, Mr Kaushik was with Medtronic as the Group Marketing Director, APAC & Country Director, India for the Diabetes business (insulin pump & CGM). He drove strategic growth for the ~$100 MM business and led innovative patient centric business models to improve solutions and services for Diabetes patients (value-based healthcare) across the APAC region.

Prior to that, Mr. Kaushik was at Baxter International (Baxalta-Shire) as Director for Strategy & Healthcare Innovation function for the Emerging Asia/India markets. He provided strategic leadership, identifying, and executing key market and patient centric innovation programs while aligning these initiatives with the global company strategic plan. He also led the commercial (P&L) of the $70MM Baxalta India with a 100+ member team when it was spun off from Baxter in 2015.

Earlier, Mr. Kaushik was at GE Healthcare as the Director of Global Upstream Marketing (Maternal Infant Care), Emerging Markets leading multiple teams of product managers for disruptive medical device product innovation, driving market creation with organic growth across Asia & Africa. Prior to that Mr. Kaushik was with GE LED Lighting as a Global Product Marketing Manager, in Cleveland, USA leading several new product innovations in LED lighting for retail display.

Overall, Ravi has 25+ years of global leadership experience in P&L Management & strategic innovation in various roles/industries ranging from Healthcare (MedTech & Pharma), LED Lighting, & Industrial companies globally. Ravi has proven himself as a disruptive innovator, strategic thinker, inclusive and execution driven leader in business analytics, strategic planning, global marketing, new product & business model innovation. Over the past decade, Ravi has been recognized globally as India’s Top 20 Healthcare CEOs (Transasia) in 2020, Global transformative leader award (Medtronic) in 2018, Emerging Market Growth Leader award (Medtronic) in 2018, Healthcare Innovation speaker at World Federation of Hemophilia Congress (2016), Global CEO Award for “Imagining the possibilities” Business Model Innovation at Baxalta (Shire) (2015), CEO Award for Patient Centricity (GE Healthcare, India) in 2012 Mr. Kaushik holds an MBA from the prestigious Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) in Chicago.

Mr Kaushik also has graduate degrees of Master’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Wyoming and Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from MS University, Baroda, India.

Dr. Matthew Hancock is a Principal at Veryst Engineering, a technical consulting firm in the Boston area. Dr. Hancock has extensive experience in fluid mechanics related to product design and performance, with core areas including microfluidics, surface tension and wetting, heat transfer, species transport, and mixing. He consults in microfluidic and fluidic devices in biopharma, biotechnology, medical devices, combination products, process technologies, and consumer products. For combination products, he and his team consult on a range of topics including autoinjector performance, syringe stopper lubrication and motion, vial fogging, lyophilization, dense suspension jamming, drug product drying, water ingress, and leakage.

Dr. Hancock has worked in academic, medical, and industrial settings, both as project lead and as a model-based engineering consultant. He earned his PhD in environmental fluid mechanics from MIT. Prior to joining Veryst, he worked with the Broad Institute, the Wyss Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Applied Mathematics at MIT. Dr. Hancock has coauthored dozens of peer-reviewed research articles in journals such as Nature Materials, PNAS, Lab on a Chip, Small, and Biomaterials.