Promoters

The company is promoted by a group of technocrat investors. The investors are ex-executive management members of large global multinational organisations turned entrepreneurs. They have led major global expansion strategies and successful ventures in their careers. They possess a wealth of global exposure in terms of managing multi-cultural business environment with a strong focus on nurturing innovative and creative work cultures. They are a believer in strong business ethics and creation of value for all the stakeholders.

The promoters support the management team through their strategic involvement to build value.

Management Team

Dr. Prabuddha K Kundu, Executive Director
Dr. Prabuddha K Kundu has over 12 years experience in the field of scale up, production and protein purification. He completed his M.Tech and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from IIT-Bombay. His expertise includes pre-project feasibility, technology due-diligence of bio-manufacturing facilities, scale up studies, downstream processing and project management of bacterial, yeast and mammalian cell culture systems. He has been associated with scaling up pilot projects in bio-manufacturing in India and South-East Asia. Apart from his process engineering skills, he has in depth knowledge of fluorescence based technology studies and has played a major role in establishing national imaging facilities that included multi-photon microscopy and FCS imaging. Prior to joining PREMAS Biotech, he managed production, marketing and research in internationally reputed companies such as Bio-Rad Laboratories & Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, India.

Mr. Praveen Gupta, Executive Director
Mr. Praveen Gupta has over 18 years of marketing experience in life science and molecular diagnostic arena handling solutions for cell biology, proteomics, high-throughput screening and genomics. Praveen completed his Master’s degree in Genetics from Pune University and earned his management degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has played major roles in defining marketing strategy, new product planning and development of nascent markets. Praveen had served in various capacities at Bio-Rad Laboratories, Life Technologies, Ranbaxy Laboratories and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories. Prior to joining PREMAS Biotech, he was heading the Sales Operations (South East Asia) where he led the marketing, sales and management of brands like Genomic Solutions, DAKO and Abbott Molecular Diagnostics.