Avantor
Jai Murthy.Avantor Performance Materials has appointed Jai Murthy, Ph.D., as Vice President and Business Manager, Global Pharmaceuticals. He will work in Avantor’s pharmaceutical chemicals business unit, where he will focus on developing and executing global sales programmes, new business initiatives and expansion of the company’s presence in existing and new markets.
With its high-purity J.T.Baker and Macron Fine Chemicals brands of performance chemistries, Avantor is a preferred supplier for biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industry leaders. The company provides a wide variety of product grades in areas such as biological buffers, processing chemicals, inorganic and co-processed excipients and chromatography media.
Murthy has an extensive background and expertise in the healthcare and life science industries, including various roles in R&D, product and sales management and strategic marketing. His work included multiple R&D roles with early-stage molecular genetics companies as well as market development at Beckman Coulter, where he helped launch a novel IVD platform.
He then joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in a global product management role and later became responsible for leading the company’s supplier strategy in Asia Pacific. While at Thermo Fisher, Murthy also served as Global Director for a worldwide chemicals business.
Murthy earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Texas and a doctorate in molecular and cellular biology from Harvard University. After his doctoral work, Murthy served as a visiting scientist at the MIT Center for Cancer Research. He has also co-authored publications in the areas of molecular genetics, population genetics and human and animal genomics.
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