Entrepreneur, Advisor, Board Director, CEO.
On a mission to bring new technologies and products to address unmet medical needs, improving health and wellbeing around the globe. Helping others benefit from my learnings and network.
Advisor, Angel Investor
Current engagements:
Entrepreneur in Residence, Columbia Tech Ventures (Columbia University) and Rensselaer Severino Center for Entrepreneurship
Member, Apex Advisory Council to Government of India, Department of Biotechnology, BIRAC.
Mentor at Stanford University Venture Studios and member of StartX incubator (Stanford)
Mentor, Indie-Bio NY
Advisor and Mentor BullPen Peer Group.
Successful entrepreneur, CEO, business development
Taken technologies from invention stage and brought them through proof of concept, design for manufacturing, scale-up, and opened new markets for truly breakthrough ideas.
Raised millions for new drug currently in clinical development for PAH as co-founder of Pulmokine Inc. For the first time these PAH patients have hope as recent phase II data shows signs of disease modifying (reversal) activity.
Global Business Dev for Cytopia’s JAK kinase inhibitors for cancer and immunology
Paper Battery Company (now PRC Tech LLC)- founded company from RPI invention, raised tens millions of funding for pilot production, corporate partnership with Fortune100 company, now in production and commercial sales of 2nd gen hybrid supercapacitors.
Market explorations for X-ray Optical Systems (now part of Danaher)
Publications
Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer
BOOK: Commercializing Successful Biomedical Technologies, 2nd ed, Cambridge Univ Press, 2023.
Paths to Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences in Nature Biotechnology, 2004
Emerging Role of Academia in Commercializing Innovation in Nature Biotechnology, 2004
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and the Bayh-Dole Act in Journal of BioLaw and Business, 2004
Management, Strategy, and Policy
Scientific Publications
Mehta S. PhD Thesis: Analysis of mechanical properties of bone material using nondestructive ultrasound reflectometry. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. 1995.