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Role Players 2020


Yugal Sikri

Managing Director
RPG Life Sciences Ltd.

With 39+ years of rich experience across reputed Pharma MNCs, Yugal has successfully led large businesses, building blockbusters, bringing business-turnarounds and developing Industry Leaders.

Yugal has been the Global Head-Marketing (Commercial Functions)and CEO - India Region at Ranbaxy where he led P&L of 26 Businesses, developed/managed diverse portfolios, ~6500 employees across countries successfully. Earlier, as India-Head Pharma (Gen-Med) at Novartis, India-Head Pharma at Pfizer and Marketing-Head at GlaxoSmithKline, his long career spans across all business verticals/functions from R&D-to-Commercialization.

Yugal was invited to join the Board of RPG Life Sciences, part of >$3B RPG Group, as an Independent Director and later requested to take on an operating role as Managing Director and embark on its 180-degree business-turnaround, which he is in the process of accomplishing

Yugal has been closely involved with Industry-affairs: served as Vice-Chair of OPPI Marketing-Committee, contributing to creating Industry's Code. Awards and Initiatives; invited by McKinsey to be in the Steering-Committee of its widely-referred publication/report, "India Pharma:2020"; invited by NitiAayog-DMAI to "Government-Industry-Dialogue" and invited to chair/speak at several Pharma/cross-industry platforms like CPhI, CII, IPC, IDMA, Bio-Pharma, CNBC CEO-Panel, ET LIFE Summit, McKinsey CEO-Forum, Pharma Leaders-Roundtable, CIO-Summits, etc.

He cares deeply about coaching next-gen - passionate about transforming Pharma education by forging a strong academia-industry partnership. He led Pharma Management Education at NMIMS University for ~3 years and continues to teach courses on Leadership, Strategy and Innovation.

Yugal is regarded as a thought-leader on the impact of innovation. He is Mentor to high-impact digital-health-ventures at RPG and at Atal-Incubation-Center, a leading Government-of-India/NMIMS initiative. He has also been an Independent Director on the board of BSE-listed Company GlobalSpace Technologies.

Yugal continues to passionately drive his agenda of creating Value and Making Difference in the lives of people.