Deepak Hegde, Ph.D., M.F.M, is an industrial pharmacist by training. He has a been involved in development and commercialization of both innovative and generic drugs from a very early phase of development to technical transfers for commercial manufacturing sites, for the past 27 years. During his career, he has worked at Rhone Poulenc, Novartis (Sandoz), USV Ltd., WuXi AppTec, GSK & EOC Pharma. and Shenzhen Pharmacin Co. Ltd. He is currently working with as Cipla (Jiangsu) Pharmaceutical Company Ltd as General Manager & China Site Head.