Mandar S Ghatnekar
Chief Technology Officer, Biocon
Mandar Ghatnekar is the Chief Technology Officer at Biocon, where he leads Technology Solutions including Information, Digital and Automation Technology.
Mandar has more than two decades of advisory and consulting experience across the life sciences industry. He has led several enterprise transformation programs, driving innovative use of digital and automation technologies in R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial operations at global biopharma companies, CROs, and regulatory agencies.
Prior to Biocon, Mandar was Managing Director at Accenture’s Advanced Technology Center in India. He has also worked at Johnson & Johnson, Infosys Technologies, Mascon Global and Biotechnology Resource Centre designing and deploying technology solutions for the Life Sciences industry.
He has more than 20 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals and he has presented at several international conferences like the Bio-IT World Conference and DIA.
Mandar holds a Ph.D. and Masters from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (formerly UDCT), and a Bachelors in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Pune.

