Session Chair Profile

Biography
Pavan is a Principal in the Boston office with a focus on Oncology and Precision Medicine. He co-leads ZS Biomarker Center of Excellence and works extensively with clients in the area of Precision Medicine. Over the last 12+ years at ZS, Pavan has focused on supporting Oncology companies across a full spectrum of medical, marketing and sales challenges. With experience working in most tumor types in Oncology, he brings deep therapeutic area expertise in Oncology. He has helped companies assess organization structures, develop commercialization strategy, segmentations, design forward looking local and global commercial models to successfully navigate the rapidly evolving Oncology market dynamics. With expertise in Precision Medicine and Oncology, Pavan has helped clients with market landscape and opportunity assessments, disease area strategy, and brand strategy including positioning. In addition, he has partnered with Oncology diagnostic companies across a range of engagements including portfolio strategy development, sales planning, customer segmentation, and competitive assessment. He holds an M.B.A from Yale School of Management, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Prior to joining ZS, Pavan worked as a Design Engineer at Caterpillar Inc.