‘Global Ambassador of World Packaging Organisation’ and member on the Executive Board.
Honorary Adviser for Pharmexcil, Govt of India.
President of INBA H, an Indo Netherlands business Association.
CEO, Managing Director of Ecobliss India, a global leader in innovative packaging solutions.

Winner of Worldstar awards (the highest in packaging excellence) for five years in a row with 100% success, a World Record!Also the lone winner of Ameristar award for pharmaceutical packaging innovation from India.More than three decades of experience in paper, printing and packaging fields.

Instrumental in developing various pharmaceutical compliance packs for US and regulatory markets! Published articles in various magazines and participated in live programmes of public interest in TV shows. Toured extensively worldwide, during the past two and half decades! Spoke on various international platforms in more than 20 countries. Delivered lectures, KNAs, chaired various sessions on various topics and mentored different programmes in FICCI,CII, IIP, CPHI, APF, WPO, Iphex, Elite Plus, FAPPCCI, GPF, PEF,INNOPACK, PPL ,WPC, RISI, UNEDO and so many other platforms.

awards & accolades :
• UBM recognition award for contribution to Indian Pharma industry.
• PHARMEXCIL (pharmaceutical export promotion council of india) recognition & felicitation
• Padma Mohana award for Industry leaders.
• Packaging Leadership Award from World Quality Congress
• Chairperson for PPL an Express Pharma Initiative
• TV 5 business leaders finalist.
• Chief Jury / Jury for various National & International awards.

At GS1 India, Bijoy is responsible for the adoption and implementation of global supply chain standards across Retail, FMCG, Healthcare, Agriculture and Technical Industries since 2013.
Bijoy has over 15 years of experience across IT, Manufacturing & Distribution, Government and Defence with core expertise in developing and implementing national registries, product master data management service, traceability service and consulting on barcoding and RFID implementations across industry verticals.

Prabir K Das, currently appointed as the Head of Packaging Technical Services, OSD Division Mylan Laboratories Ltd, India. Prabir is basically a Chemistry (Honors) graduate from Calcutta University. He is one of the 1st batch PG students from Indian Institute of Packaging, Mumbai (1985 - 1987). He is now associated with Pharmaceutical Packaging for almost 27 years with 4 years prior engagement with Packaging materials and conversion industry prior to joining in erstwhile Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, the pioneer of India based global pharmaceutical company.

Currently he is associated with Mylan Laboratories Ltd, an US based multinational with strong presence in India. Prabir is actively involved in large scale Indian pharmaceutical business for both regulated and semi-regulated countries. Mass scale production with quality and compliance is the need of the hour and he is contributing significantly to propel the growth of the business. He is well known in Indian Packaging Industry and well aware of systems and procedures associated with the subject. We hope his knowledge and experience sharing will definitely help the audience.

Mr. Pradeep Dhargalkar is heading Packaging Development of Unichem Laboratories Ltd. for the last 18 years. He has more than 35 years rich Industrial experience. He started his career from US Vitamin in 1983. His basic qualification is post graudate in Microbiology from Mumbai university. He switched over to ONGC in 1984, he is our country’s first microbiologist to work on offshore platforms of Bombay High. He later switched over to 2 big MNC’s viz – Procter & Gamble & Johnson & Johnson where he contributed more on Quality Assurance and Packaging. Before joining Unichem, he also worked with Kopran’s USFDA facility at Khopoli.

Mr. Pradeep has presented his paper in many National & International seminars. His extensive research work on the effect of sulfate reducing bacteria on corrosion of oil well pipelines was recognized with an ‘Outstanding performance award’ by Govt. of India. He was the solitary Asian to speak in 6th Annual Pharma Packaging & Labelling Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was a member in a delegation team of PACE – 2008 in, Vienna Austria. In November 2008, he spoke on the similar subject at (IBC) International Business Center – Singapore. He is actively involved in projects of - CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) and International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE).

Total experience in pharma industry :30 years of experience in the Pharma industry
• a. 14 Years with Lupin Ltd: Started my career with this organisation and worked in QA , packaging QC, Packaging development
• b. Worked with Raptakoss Brett ( 6M)
• c. 4.5 years with Indoco Remedies: Was heading the Packaging development and worked on Regulated market projects with the technical team.
• d. Glenmark ( 6M): was heading the packaging development
• e.last 11 years with FDC Ltd: Head Regulatory Affairs and Packaging development

a) Describe in brief about your contribution to innovation in the course of your career:
• Developed child resistant foil for an Indian vendor as per EU requirements and commercialized the same
• Developed suitable dropper tips for ophthalmic bottles made with BFS technology achieving various drops sizes
• Developed cost effective 2D barcode system(hardware and Software) for DGFT
• Developed cost effective hardware for DSCSA/FMD compliance with help of Indian vendors
• Developed various vendors for compliance to current Regulatory and quality requirements
• Brought about various cost effective changes maintaining quality standards
• Introduced various controls to minimize packaging errors be it in packaging development( artwork management with use of software), QC and production packaging.
• Being proactive to the changing regulatory requirements across regions and India.

Mr. Ajay Bapat is working with Emcure Pharmaceuticals, as Head – Packaging Development.
Emcure Pharmaceuticals is amongst the top Indian pharmaceutical companies having multiple manufacturing locations globally.
Mr. Bapat has previously worked in companies like Lupin, SOL ,Wockhardt and has vast experience of Pharma packaging.

Education :
• Graduation in Science, Certification from Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), Mumbai.

Designation :
• Associate Vice President

Total experience :
• Total experience 28 years (Pharmaceutical Packaging development :17 Years.)
• Worked with M.J Biopharm, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Famy Care Ltd .
• Project execution from concept to commercialization. Development of packaging for pharmaceutical formulations considering product stability, cost effectiveness, Operational feasibility, Regulatory compliance and Market acceptance.
• Presently working with Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.
• Spear heading the Packaging development function at R & D. Global role in Packaging development of various dosage forms for Regulated Markets and Semi – Regulated Market. Playing a major role from Research development till approval of product & contribution in New product launches. Support to operation in identifying packaging machines and defining the scope. Device development for sterile products.

A packaging expert currently working as Head–Packaging Development, Mankind Research Centre. based out of Gurgoan, India. He has more than 17 years of industrial experience at leadership level with extensive experience in Research, Development and Commercialization of Pharmaceutical products with formulate robust Packaging Strategies with strong focus on Execution Excellence, Safety and Patient compliance and has worked in Flexible packaging converter(FMCG) and various Pharmaceutical companies across India Like Paharpur Industries Ltd, Aurobindo pharmaceutical , Jubilant Generic , Zydus Cadila , Dr Reddys Lab.

He is a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemistry and Post-Graduate in Packaging Technology from Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), Mumbai. His area of expertise is ‘Pharma Packaging Innovations, Pharmaceutical Packaging Development,(Various doses form) Packaging Optimization’ and ‘Packaging Material Studies & Controls’. Currently he is responsible for including Packaging Material/Design Innovations & Packaging Development of new products including in different doses form for semi regulated /advanced regulated market for Mankind Research Centre( A unit of Mankind Pharmaceutical Ltd).

Has more than 20 years of work experience with 11 years in Procter & Gamble (India) and 2 years in Godrej Hershey Limited (JV between Hershey USA and Godrej Industries Ltd). After working for 4 years with Mondelez International(formerly known as Cadbury India Limited) as IS Project Manager and Service Delivery Lead for Manufacturing Processes and non-SAP applications, he is currently working with Cipla Limited. During last 5 years he has handled multiple roles from Project Manager for SAP implementation to business partnering HR, Legal and quality to implement technologies to leading the Master data Management and strategically working on outsourcing it. Also has lead Global role out of Serialization project

Has a proven experience in program management, development, deployment and operation of IT Solutions.

-Actively managed traditional IT Operations involving ERP, data warehouse and GTM Solutions.

- Experience in governing mid-sized outsourced IT contracts through integrated processes and automated solutions.

- Has led implementation initiatives of implementing comprehensive ERP applications across business groups in India.

-Has played a key role in international projects for the development and deployment of applications across core business processes.

R. Chandi Prasad is currently heading Packaging Development, Commercial Team at Aurobindo Pharma Limited, Hyderabad. Aurobindo Pharma Limited is a generic pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturing organization and features among the top 2 companies in India in terms of consolidated revenues with exports to over 150 countries across the globe. He is having result driven, growth-oriented career of multi-faceted experience over three decades in packaging development, quality control and quality assurance in reputed pharmaceutical organizations manufacturing formulations. As a Packaging Technologist with ability to define vision, focus on short-term and long-term goals of organization, accepting pivotal assignments, sets high expectations and produced results.

Had worked with Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Actavis Pharmaceutical Mfg. Limited and Natco Pharma Limited. In the long professional career, accomplished projects of selection of packages for product stability, quality, safety, compliance to regulatory and statutory requirements, technology transfer of packaging, packaging automation projects, vendor development and audit, driving and implementation of cost saving projects in packaging materials and productivity resulting in huge savings. Established modern quality systems for 100% compliance in packaging development and artwork management system in driving the team and achieving intended results in the organizations he is associated with. He believes in sharing knowledge is gaining knowledge and spoken in reputed seminars and conclaves on packaging technology. Awarded for Outstanding Achievement in pharmaceutical packaging by Express Pharma.

He is a co-author in more than three dozen Papers published in peer reviewed International Journals, co-inventor in more than 100 patent applications filed, has presented scientific papers and keynotes in many International Conferences in addition to delivering invited talks at various Institutions / Conferences on R&D Management, Idea Management, Innovations, Philosophy of New Drug Discovery & Life and many more such topics.

Sanjay Dave specializes in packaging development and business development, and has more than 20+ years experience in related field. His specialties includes development of packaging for all type of Pharma formulation and OTC health care products. He currently holds the position of CCO at Anfarnd Consultancy Services. Prior to this he worked as GM - New product Development, QA at Shriji Polymers (I) Ltd, Primary packaging manufacturing company, primarily HDPE bottles & PP closures. Also he worked as Head - R&D Packaging Development at Cipla Ltd., an Indian multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company.His responsibilities includes heading the primary packaging development team, which takes care of development of primary packaging of more than 40 dosage forms, include Consumer healthcare, Meter Dose Inhalers (Aerosols), Dry Powder Inhalers, Solid dosage, tropical, ophthalmic, injectable and NDDS. Other previous positions also includes Head - Business Development (Aclar - PCTFE films) and Technical Support at ACG Pharmapack P Ltd. (ACG Worldwide). Manager - Packaging Development at Lupin Research Park and Manager - Packaging Development at Plethico Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Also worked for FDC Ltd. & Indoco Remedies Ltd.

Dr. Udaykumar Rakibe has completed his M. Pharmacy & MBA from Pune University and is a PhD in Pharmacy from Dr. BAMU, Aurangabad. Dr. Rakibe was mandated and given the task to execute and spearhead the proactive remediation in 2006 by Ranbaxy Lab. Ltd. And in late 2011 he was recruited by Intas Pharma to create a self-sustaining quality management system and enhance inspection readiness. Further, in 2013 Dr. Rakibe was hand-picked & recruited by Wockhardt Ltd., as Senior Vice President – Quality, to turn around the Quality Management, lead and manage the remediation of Quality initiatives.

Dr. Rakibe is a quality professional with a dynamic career steering organization through complex Quality & Regulatory challenges, transitions, building an empowered and talented workforce in the cross-cultural environment within highly competitive products and regulatory environment.

He began his career in Quality function in the Executive in-process QA with Glenmark Pharma Ltd. and then moved to different levels and organization spanning 3 decades of hands-on and hard-core experience in the pharmaceutical regulatory environment. He has gained the domain experience in Quality by working 3 decades in Quality operations- half of which i.e. 15 years focusing and leading the Quality & Regulatory remediation. Dr. Rakibe has 7 years’ experience in Corporate Quality functions, overseeing the Developmental, Technology Transfer, & filing of – ANDA and DMF (Clinical, Analytical, Formulation, Devices). He has setup the Global Quality organization for the Contact Manufacturing in regulated and semi-regulated markets. Dr. Udaykumar Rakibe has worked as a senior member of the Quality Team and helped place the organisations in the next level or orbit - with Ranbaxy Labs Ltd., Dabur Pharma Ltd., Gland Pharma Ltd., Intas Pharma Ltd., and Wockhardt Ltd.

Sriram has a career spread over two decades working across multiple industry verticals such as Information Technology, Adhesives, Lubricants and Financial Services. He has promoted strong brands like Fevicol, Mseal, Fevikwik, Gulf Oil, Motul and ManageArtworks. Sriram has a Master's degree from University of Madras, focused on Business scale and general management with Software solutions, Consumer(CPG) and Industrial Products.

For the past few years, Sriram has been working towards facilitating and enhancing the performance Quotients of Organizations involved in Package Labelling Approval processes, through ManageArtworks, thereby paving way for labelling compliance and customer delight.

Mr. Sanjay Chavan is currently heading multi country procurement for packaging & devices, Asia, China & JPac at Sanofi. He is responsible for procurement function catering to all of the Sanofi Group companies in the region for the packaging & devices category & coordination for raw materials in India.

Prior to joining Sanofi, he was working as the Site Director for Bio chemistry (API) Site in Jurong, Singapore for Aventis Pharma Manufacturing PTE Ltd. where he was responsible for all operations & functions at the site & of the legal entity for Aventis.

Mr TJ Saravanan has had a rich and varied experience of 23+ years in pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, FMCG and the food and beverage industry in both packaging development and vendor management.

He is currently the Associate Director – Packaging Development (Quality Assurance) at Biocon Limited.He has formerly worked with FMCG giants like Hindustan Unilever and large pharmaceutical companies like Himalaya Drugs, Ranbaxy and Med Reich.

C N Ashok, Managing Director of Autoprint Machinery Manufacturers Pvt. Ltd., is a first generation entrepreneur who started his business in the year 1992.

After completing his Chartered Accountancy with a gold medal, he ventured into a high tech engineering based business of manufacturing machinery for the printing and packaging industry. Autoprint machines are currently exported to more than 56 countries which include developed countries like USA, UK, France etc.

Recognized as the “Stalwart of the Printing Industry”, Autoprint with over 11,500 installations in the past 27 years is proud indeed of its “make in India” status. Having established itself as the No.1 offset printing machinery manufacturer in India, Autoprint has successfully forayed into the packaging industry with the UV/Aqueous Coating machines, Automatic Die Punching machines and Variable data printing machines. Autoprint has indeed proven to be the Pioneer in indigenously manufacturing and marketing the most appropriate machines for the growth of the Printing Industry.

Autoprint has rare distinction of producing Checkmate – Carton Inspection Machine with 100% indigenous know-how. Since the launch of the product Autoprint holds 80% market share in this segment. Product produced and printed using machines built in developed countries like Germany, Japan are inspected using our Checkmate Machine.

Autoprint has been recognized by the Bureau of Indian Standards, with the Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Awards, for product design and quality. The company currently has a product range of 14 models varying from Rs.1 Lakh to Rs. 1 Crore, catering to various segments of the printing industry.

C N Ashok is the former Vice President of IPAMA (Indian Printing and Allied Machinery Manufacturers Association) and the former Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries, Coimbatore Chapter.

Mr Jigish Chiniwala is CMD Chairman and Managing Director of Condot System Pvt. Ltd. The company established in 1994. Mr Jigish is in the business of Coding and Marking System since 1991 till date. Rather we would like to say nearly 3 decade his contribution is Indian industry for Coding Marking and Variable data printing. He has bought TIJ technology with Co-operation of HP in India in way back in 2004 since then TIJ is majorly used technology of coding in Pharma Industry. His knowledge and leadership of management Condot is the only Indian flagship private limited company who has presence in over 36 countries and over 36000 installations. Mr. Jigish personal technical skill to development and enter in GS1 track and trace solution. His personal experience will guide us today in the direction how and why selection of machine to comply the need to trace and trace in simple way.

I am career-focused, highly motivated and very hard-working, with particular strengths in my team- work, organizational and communication skills. I like to handle challenging tasks, think strategically and use innovative solutions whenever necessary. My strong work ethic combined with my passion and dedication has helped me to reach my goals.

In my current role in Janssen, my responsibility is to manage the Governance of manufacturers in India & South East Asia who manufacture Finished Product and Drug Substance by providing support for Quality assurance, Compliance and Technical matters.

I provide leadership to External Supply Integration Quality ( ESIQ ) team in selecting, developing and managing external manufacturing (EM) sites, providing QA support for technology transfer and contributing to overall development, implementation and execution of quality systems at EM sites in support of manufacturing of Janssen products. To provide the adequate interface to external supply integration team, Janssen Supply Chain internal manufacturing, Product management group and Customer management teams.

I bring with me, extensive industry experience of 25 years in handling quality and regulatory functions for several manufacturing technologies and varied businesses such as API/Pharmaceutical, Consumer healthcare, Animal health care for Asia Pacific and Global markets. I have a rich experience in working with India specific regulations as well as regional and global quality needs and have contributed in several due diligence and acquisition projects throughout my career.

I have worked in reputed multinationals in India and was handling external manufacturing QA in Sanofi- India, before joining Janssen.

-27yrs with Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) in various capacities & Locations.

• UNDP Fellowship in the field of Packaging
• EU-Packaging Expert for Chhattisgarh Herbal Products.
• Associated with OU, JNTU, NIPER, NIRD, ICRISAT, CII, FICCI, FTCCI, APCMBA, NIN, APEDA, Innopack series, Packplus, MANAGE, Govt. Institutions and many organisations.
• Conducted more than 1000 training programmes.
• Packaging Consultant to more than 150 companies.
• Working support to establish one packaging regional Centre of IIP.
• Conducted PACKit programme of ITC for Agri-business sector.
• Compiled India Profile book under the curriculum of ITC Packit programme for fruits and vegetable industry.
• ITC Advisor- Packaging Consultant to Ethiopian Flower Industry.
• Packaging Courses -Short term- Introduced by me.
• International Packaging Consultant to Saudi Arabia for Biscuit & Confectionery Industry.
• Founder of Packaging Club ( Facebook and Linkedin).
• Past President of IIP Alumni Association.
• Written many articles related to the Packaging Science.
• Ex-Visiting Professor and Founder Advisor for M. Tech. ( Packaging ) of IIT Roorkee.
• Going to setup one more Packaging Institute known IOP i.e Institute of Packaging , Patna in association with Bihar Vidyapeeth.

Srinivasa Reddy Gurram, M.Tech in Systems Engineering from NIT Warangal and Specialized in Bioprocess Technology from IITM. Past 22+ years worked on Automation projects in R & D, Manufacturing and Clinical areas for producing Drugs, Biologics and Medical Devices launch in major regulated markets. Active contributor at ISPE and Board member in ISACA Hyderabad. Served for major Pharma and Medical device companies in US, EU and India. Practitioner of Manufacturing IT, Automation, GAMP, CSV, 21 CFR Part 11/Annex 11 including recent trends in Industrial IoT, Blockchain, Cloud, Cybersecurity and Forensics.

Arsh Gujral is a National Sales Head with O4S. O4S is an exciting technology startup focussed on working with the brand owners around downstream supply chain visibility. Arsh has been a part of O4S since the founding days and has helped evangelize the concept and use cases of serialization across industries like Pharmaceuticals and Agri Inputs. He carries more than a decade of experience across Sales, Consulting, Supply Chain and Product Management across companies like Gartner and Tech Mahindra.

Bharat Gujavarti, Senior Vice President at GreatFour Systems has over 24 years of experience in building software products across domains. Started his career as an Entrepreneur, he has wide range of experience in architecting software product platforms and providing innovative and best of the breed solutions for clients. He has worked in US and Europe for about a decade.

He spent his last 9 years at in Pharma first at Goose Technologies and now GreatFour Systems building next generation solutions for life sciences in the areas of packaging & artwork, project portfolio management, quality management, clinical data management, regulatory information management , serialization and analytics.

He is the brain behind Harmony, one of the very few UNIFIED platforms available for life sciences industry today. He & his team has implemented solutions at more than 40 Pharmaceutical companies in India, US and Europe.