Saurabh Awasthi
With twenty years of experience at the intersection of life sciences and technology, Saurabh’s work is guided by a single mission: improving biopharma R&D productivity. He leverages his expertise in strategy, data & analytics, and AI to solve the complex challenges facing today’s biopharma organizations. For biopharma companies, he cuts through the AI hype to implement technologies that deliver tangible results. For deep tech startups, he translates breakthrough science into go-to-market strategies that solve real-world R&D problems.
Saurabh previously led strategy, operations, and analytics at Takeda, Pfizer, and PwC. This background gives him fluency in both the language of science and the logic of algorithms. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, an MS in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and dual degrees in Biotechnology from IIT Delhi. Saurabh lives in Brookline, MA, with his wife and two children.