The people behind the foundation
Our Trustees
IBioM is guided by trustees drawn from across India's biotech ecosystem — founders, scientists and industry leaders who built the community from an informal group into a foundation representing biotechnology MSMEs and startups.
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Founder & CEO of Genotypic Technology — India's first genomics company — and of QTLomics Technologies, applying genomics and bioinformatics to agri-biotech and healthcare.
LinkedIn profileDr Raja Mugasimangalam
Chairman
Former Director of the Monsanto Research Centre, Bengaluru, after research roles at CSIRO Melbourne and AstraZeneca — a PhD in microbial genetics with three decades across academia and industry in five countries.
LinkedIn profileDr Jagadish Mittur
President
CEO of BioAgile Therapeutics, Bengaluru — one of the venues hosting IBioM's monthly meets. MSc, MBA and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.
LinkedIn profileMs Divya Chandradhara
Treasurer
Founder & CEO of Quantumzyme, engineering enzymes computationally for industrial biocatalysis; previously a Director at Philips Research.
LinkedIn profileMr Naveen Kulkarni
Secretary
CEO & co-founder of BioTecNika, the biotech careers and news platform that has mentored over a hundred thousand life-science students.
LinkedIn profileMr Shekhar Suman
Trustee
Legal Advisor
Mr. Kirit S. Javali
- Partner — Jafa & Javali
- Barrister, Advocate
- Litigation, Arbitration, IP & Corporate Law
- Supreme Court of India, New Delhi
Reach the foundation at info@ibiom.in or connect on LinkedIn.