Mr Gopalakrishnan Venkatesan | Vice President of Business Development
Wockhardt Llc

Gopalakrishnan Venkatesan is the Vice President of Business Development at Wockhardt USA, the US subsidiary of Wockhardt Limited. Gopal has a graduate degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a MBA from the University of Bombay, India and has worked at Wockhardt since June 1987. Gopal has also attended an Executive Program in Strategy and Negotiation at the Harvard Business School. For most of his career, Gopal has worked in Business Development and Strategic Planning at Wockhardt. He has played a significant role in transformation of Wockhardt from an Indian company till the 1990’s to a global pharmaceutical company with over a billion in worldwide sales, over 75% of which comes from US and Europe. In 2005, Gopal moved to the US, and helped start Wockhardt’s operations in the country. Over the years, he has been responsible for M&A, business development deals and identification, development and launching of over 80 products in the US. He is now also a member of the corporate strategic team, which is responsible for global strategic planning at Wockhardt.