Naveen Kulkarni

Biography:

Naveen is a scientist, entrepreneur and hands-on executive officer with more than 25 years of scientific and entrepreneurial experience in pharma, biotech and healthcare industries. Prior to founding Quantumzyme, Naveen has been mentoring and advising start-ups on Business Plan, Business Models and support in funding. Naveen served as the CEO of Biotech start-ups, and prior to that as Director at Philips Research, where he was associated with a portfolio of opportunities for new business creation in healthcare and energy sector. He worked as a principal consultant for SysArris Inc, USA, where he integrated the Bioinformatics services for the company that positioned the company a leading technology provider in the health sector. Naveen has contributed to many scientific publications featured in journals like Nature, ACS Biocatalysis to name a few. Naveen also served as a member of the advisory board of reputed institutions including JSS University, SDM Institutions, RVCE and Welingkar. Naveen has studied Masters in Life Science at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane and did his Research at CRC for Diagnostic Technologies, Brisbane Australia. Naveen strongly believes that the future of protein engineering will be dominated by computational research, and Quantumzyme will be on top to maximise the potential of Biocatalysis.