Tobby Simon

Tobby Simon is the Founder and President of Synergia Foundation, a strategic think tank which works closely with leading academia and industry to develop cutting edge practices and solutions through applied research in the domains of geopolitics and geo-security. He is also the President and Founder of the Synergia Group a business advisory and incubation company that works in the area of translational research.

Tobby has over thirty years of multi – disciplinary expertise in healthcare, cyber security, aerospace, energy, supply chain risk management and strategic consulting. His success in the industry won him accolades, including the National Certificate of Merit for Exports from the Government of India in 1992. At a young age of 29, Tobby became the President of a French pharmaceutical conglomerate (CSP), heading its operation in Asia. Over the next eight years, Tobby worked pro - bono for Nobel Prize winner, Medicines Sans Frontier (MSF) and the WHO to build end-to-end supply chains for anti-retroviral, anti tuberculosis and anti malarial drugs from India. This project is currently helping millions of afflicted patients all over the world. He was closely involved with several humanitarian missions in Peru, S.Africa, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka , CIS and India. He has also been an advisor to EU – AEDES, The Croix Rouge, Pharmaciens Sans Frontier and World Congress on Information and Communication Technology. While rendering pro bono work for humanitarian organizations, he advised and helped a number of global companies in telecommunication, power, pharmaceuticals, aerospace etc successfully establish their business in South Asia.

Tobby has been instrumental in building research collaborations with some of the finest academic institutes including Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Cambridge University, The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Tobby is very active on a number of international bodies. He was recently nominated as Commissioner to The Global Commission on Internet Governance headed by the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. Tobby serves on the advisory board of the Centre for New American security (CNAS) , a bi partisan think tank that works closely with key policy makers in the US. He was also a member of the International Council of the Belfer Centre of Science and International Affairs (BCSIA).