Position:
Global Biotech Business Controller at Bayer HealthCare
Work:
Bayer HealthCare
- Berkeley, California since Jun 2012
Global Biotech Business Controller
Bayer Technology Services
- Berkeley, CA Jun 2006 - May 2012
Project Manager / Principal Engineer
Centocor Inc (Johnson & Johnson)
Jun 2005 - Sep 2005
Summer Intern
Education:
University of California, Berkeley Extension 2008 - 2009
Certificate, Business Administration
Carnegie Mellon University 2001 - 2006
PhD, Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 1997 - 2001
BTech (Hons), Chemical Engineering
Skills:
Manufacturing Strategy, Biotechnology, Process Simulation, Technology Transfer, Process Optimization, Process Engineering, Pharmaceutical Industry, Chemical Engineering, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Lifesciences, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence, GMP, Project Portfolio Management
Interests:
Mentor of the Life Sciences Track of UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition (2009 – 2010)
*Advised two biotech start-ups based out of University of California, San Francisco in preparing marketing, operations and financial strategies as part of the business plan competition. Both teams were semi-finalists (2009 & 2010).
Core team member of the Pittsburgh Action Center of Child Rights and You (CRY)
(US-based non-profit supporting the rights of underprivileged children in India)
* Raised $25,000 in funds over a 2-year period through organizing concerts and social events.
Honor & Awards:
Recent presentations:
* “Production planning of batch and semi-continuous bioprocesses across multiple biopharmaceutical facilities”, to be presented at ESCAPE Conference (June 2012)
* “Biotech Facility of the Future”, Invited Talk at the EPSRC Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre in Bioprocessing, University College London (July 2011).
* Ghosh, S et al (2006) - Metabolic Engineering, Volume 8, Issue 5, September 2006, Pages 491-507
* Ghosh, S et al (2006) - Comput. Chem. Engg 29(3), pp. 459-466. – Specially invited publication to an Issue looking at innovative research in Systems Approaches to Biological Problem.
* Zhu, T, Phalakornkule, C, Ghosh, S et al (2003) - Metabolic Engineering, Issue 5 pp. 74-85.
* Ramanathan, SP, Mukherjee, S, Dahule, RK, Ghosh, S, et al (2001) - Chem. Engg. Res. & Des. 79(A3) pp. 310-322.
* Nandi, S, Ghosh, S et al (2001) - AIChE J. 47(1) pp.126-141.