Mr. Sarabjot Singh
Director - Sterimed Surgical India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Mr. Singh is an entrepreneur and Founding Member of Sterimed Group of Industries. He has done Diploma in Polymer Technology from Indian Plastic Institute (IPI).

He has over 30 years of experience in the field of manufacturing of Disposable Medical Products and 17 years of experience in the field of manufacturing of Industrial and Medical Adhesive Tapes.

Mr. Sarabjot Singh is also experienced in the field of manufacturing of Hotmelt Adhesives and manufacturing of Nonwoven bags.

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Ms. Elena Draganoiu
Global Technology Manager
Lubrizol LifeSciences, Mumbai

Ms. Elena Draganoiu, Ph.D. is global technology manager in Lubrizol LifeSciences, where she is responsible for leading technical programs in the area of pharmaceutical ingredients. She holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of Cincinnati and has extensive experience in pharmaceutical formulation. Her work at Lubrizol has been focused on acrylic acid and thermoplastic polyurethane technology platforms for pharmaceutical and medical solutions.

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Mr. Sanjay Chotalia
Manager – Technical Sales & Marketing And Medical
Segment Expert - Covestro (India) Private Limited,
Mumbai

Mr. Sanjay Chotalia is working with Covestro for more than 4 years as Manager – Technical Sales & Marketing for west India region for Polycarbonate resin & Medical
segment expert.

He has completed MBA in Marketing, Bachelors in Polymer Engineering from Pune university and Diploma in Plastics Engineering from Mumbai university.

He has 9 years of experience in Technical Sales and Application Developments of Engineering Plastics like Polycarbonate, Nylon6, PBT, Polyacetal.

He also has rich experience in Handling Electrical & Electronics, Medical, Consumer and Industrial segments with very good exposure to west India region and customer base.

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Mr. Partha Mohapatra
Lead- Healthcare, (India) & Technical Support
INEOS Styrolution India Limited, New Delhi

Mr. Partha Mohapatra is working as Lead Healthcare (India) & Technical Support with INEOS Styrolution India Limited.

In his present role, he is actively involved in Application & Product Development along with Technical support, with key focus on new business opportunities for styrene in medical device industry.

Mr. Mohapatra is Post graduate in Plastic technology from CIPET, Hyderabad and has an M.B.A (Marketing) from I.G.N.O.U ( Delhi ) with 19 years’ experience in plastics processing & raw material industry . He has expertise in processing of engineering plastic & is actively engaged in business development/ marketing of styrene’s products for healthcare industry. He is involved in new projects developments with pharmaceutical packaging & medical disposable device industry. He provides technical/development support to customer from initial stage to project commercialization stage. He possesses diverse technical sales marketing experience in the field of medical grade styrenic polymers.

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Mr. Umang Shah
National Sales Manager
Clariant Chemicals (India) Ltd., Mumbai

Mr. Umang Shah is working with CLARIANT Chemicals India Ltd. CLARIANT is one of the world’s leading Specialty chemical companies. He is a National Sales Manager – Masterbatches & Compounds for Medical & Pharma Segment since Dec, 2015 and based at head quarter in Navi Mumbai.

Earlier, he has worked with SABIC Innovative Plastics & GE Plastics India for more than 22 years. He has rich & multi-functional experience and handled various key responsibilities as a Key Accounts Manager – Sales & Marketing, Application Development Specialist, Technical Services Manager at Mumbai. Engineering Plastics Compounding at Vadodara Plant, Application Development Centre at Gurgaon and GE’s Global R&D center at Bangalore.

Mr. Ganesh Sabat
(CEO,
Sahajanand Medical Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Surat)

Mr. Sabat has got more than 15 years of global experience of working in USA and India. He has got more than 5 years of experience in medical device industry. Currently Mr. Sabat is working as the CEO of SMT Pvt. Ltd. He has successfully expanded SMT presence in India as well as in 40 countries across the world. Under his leadership, SMT is developing as a global leader in cardiovascular market.

Mr. Sabat has completed his MBA from Washington University in Saint Louis. He also holds a degree from ICSI, India and has completed his graduation in science with Physics (Hons). As a young and dynamic professional, he wants to strongly position Indian medical device industry in the global field.

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Dr. Atul Sardana
Director - Alfa Corpuscles Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Dr. Atul Sardana (MBBS, MS, FIAGES) is a minimal access surgeon with a knack for applying technology to conventional surgical principals which benefits patients. Dr. Atul Sardana has been working in the health care sector since 1990 starting as a social worker in one of Delhi’s large government hospital. He has over 30 national and  international clinical publication and presentations and is a honorary member of the World Association of laparoscopic Surgeons, and a member of the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and the BIS Technical Committee on Surgical Instruments.

He was awarded the fellowship of Indian Association of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons in 2007. He was actively involved in training of surgeons in the field of Advanced Solid Organ Laparoscopic Surgery, Endo stapling Principles and Techniques, and Laparoscopic Hernia Surgery at Ethicon Institute of Surgical Education, New Delhi and is a faculty for the conduct of the fellowship of Indian Association of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons. He is also an active member of AIMED (All India Medical Device Manufactures Association). He is a certified internal auditor of quality management systems for medical device manufacturing as per ISO 13485:2003 from TUV SUD.

He served as the head of Technical operations at Biosurge Technologies, Mumbai and later was the founder chairman at Alfa Corpuscles Private Limited where he currently serves as the Head for R & D and Product Development. Alfa Corpuscles has been supported by the Technology Development Board, DBT, ICMR and GSBTM.

He has three national patents for his invention of the “Laparoscopic Access Trocar”, “Safety Syringe” and “Oral Vaccine Reconstitution & Delivery Device” and one PCT filed for his invention of the “Safety Syringe”. His efforts on the safety syringe have been acknowledged by the “Wellcome Trust, UK” and the invention has been awarded the Silver Prize at the Seoul International Invention Fair 2012. He also has the distinction of being honoured twice by display of his innovative technologies during the exhibition on “Innovations in Medical Science and Biotechnology at the Rashtrarapati Bhawan.

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Mr. Naimuddin R. Saiyed
Sr. Drug Inspector, FDCA, Gujarat

Mr. Naimuddin R. Saiyed is Sr.Drugs Inspector, FDCA, Gujarat. He has done B. PHARM – LMCP, LL.B from Guj Uni., and Diploma in Management from IGNOU.

He has 8 years of mfg. experience (tablet,svp) and very good regulatory experience. He has worked for 8 years as Drugs Inspector in Sales Segment Regulation. As
Sr.Drugs Inspector, since last 6 years, he has been looking after regulating Blood Bank, Blood Storage and mfg. of Medical Devices.

He has attended various workshops on Medical Device Regulations at PERD, Ahmedabad; at Gandhinagar Head Office and GFSU by CDSCO.

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Mr. Sanjay Shah
Managing Director-Unikal Consultants, Ahmedabad

Mr. Sanjay Shah is founder promoter of Unikal Consultants.

He is an experienced Quality Management System Consultant, knowledgeable in ISO 9001 & ISO 3485 system. He has experience in training related to QMS; c-GMP & WHO GMP.

He has done MS by research from University Department of Chemical Technology, Bombay University and BS (Chemistry & Physics) from Bombay University.

He has presented papers and talks on various aspects of Coronary Stents including Drug Eluting Stents and on Regulatory Aspects of Medical Devices.