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February 17, 2005
 

Avestha appoints new business heads

 

Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt. Ltd., India’s leading Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Company today announced that it has strengthened its senior management team by putting in place its key executives to oversee its three strategic business units, Avesthagen Research-RPOTM, Nutraceuticals-Avgen Inc., and Agbiotech-AQUASTM.

Mr. J. Rajagopalan has recently been appointed Chief Finance Officer and General Manager, Administration for the whole company. He has over 25 years of management experience in several senior roles covering Finance, Legal and Administration, at Britannia Industries Ltd.

Also Dr. Gilles Amsallem has been appointed the Chief Operating Officer, with responsibilities of driving all operations within the company. Dr. Amsallem has more than 20 years of leadership experience in the development of international Biotechnology companies. He has also founded and headed a successful Biotech company, MIXIS Genetics, as well as lending his vast experience of the industry for corporate and business development, to a number of major companies and emerging players such as DUPONT, Fisher Scientific International Inc, SORIN BIOMEDICA, EUROBIO Laboratories.

Avesthagen’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Villoo Morawala Patell said, “Our new appointees for COO and CFO come to us from successful entrepreneurial and established companies, and I look forward to working with them in leading our three business units into their next phase of development and commercialization.”

Avesthagen’s team leaders for R&D and Business Development in each of the business units consists of experienced personnel with vast experience and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Mr. Koen Wentink, Head Legal Affairs & Logistics
Research-RPO:
Dr. K.R. Rajyashri, Director of Research Process Outsourcing-RPO
Dr.Rajesh Ullanat, Vice President, Biotherapeutics
Mr.Vinay Konaje, Vice President, Business Development
Mr.Pierre Socha, Vice President, International Business Development and European Representative based in the UK
Nutraceuticals-Avesthagen Inc:
Dr. Victor Moreno, Head Nutraceuticals based in San Diego, California
Mr. Intekhab, Vice President, Business Development
Mr.Dhruv Dayal, Sr. Business Development
Dr. Ashok Mundrigi, Head-Cell Assay Group

Avestha Gengraine Technologies is India’s leading fully integrated biotechnology and Bioinformatics Company, focusing on the convergence between food, pharma and clinical genomics leading to preventive personalised medicine. Avesthagen provides innovative solutions for global challenges in agriculture and health problems in the areas of degenerative conditions, metabolic disorders and infectious diseases. The company’s unique and internationally recognized business model is built on the synergetic links between R&D provided and on going initiatives for novel product development.