Dnyanesh Talpade

Summary:

An accomplished senior executive with an impressive leadership record in Innovation, global new product development, strategic planning, product/project management, research and advanced technology engineering, Intellectual Property Management and business development.

Solid experience in cardiology,periheral vascular interventions, surgical biopsy/oncology systems and the device needs of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Product experience spans the entire spectrum of High value- low/mid volume products to very high volume-lower price disposables as well as mid to large capital electromechanical products.

Track record includes increasingly responsible leadership roles in Fortune 500 corporations. Results demonstrate a passion for the hands-on building and leading of cross-functional teams that rapidly create and profitably commercialize high tech products. Uniquely qualified for a CTO, Vice President R&D/Global Product Development/Business Development or Marketing position in Medical Device, Pharma or Biotech. Also open to discussing C-level consulting projects.

Selected Accomplishments:

• Completed over twenty three consulting assignments. Regular consultant to Top 5 consulting firms, Corporations, Financial institutions, Private Equity etc on all aspects of medical device and pharmaceutical/biotech strategy as well as due diligence for M&A.
• Responsible for development of over 16 new Class II/III medical devices.
• Managed up to $14MM/yr in project budget, and up to $13MM/yr in functional budgets.
• Supported a $200MM/yr P&L as part of the leadership team.
• Streamlined product development. Increased "milestones met" efficiency from low 40% to over 95% in one year while reducing development time.
• Increased revenue from core business projects from 7% to 13% in 2 years.
• Led the implementation of the phase gate product development process.
• Introduced a concept development organization to rapidly respond to customer needs. Improved response time by over 200%.
• Team launched a new device within 10 months and prototyped two major electromechanical systems with internal team and ext. consultant.