Sankar Venkiteswaran

About Sankar Venkiteswaran

Strategy and Operations professional with a background in biochemical engineering, synthetic biology and business development. I started my career in metabolic engineering and molecular biology to develop engineered microbial strains to produce small molecules. I am most passionate working at the intersection of innovative technology and business impact. This led me to pursue business school and strategy consulting. My experience has been unique in the sense that I’ve led work streams in R&D, market analysis, transaction support, and growth strategy. I developed action-oriented business strategy in a structured consulting environment as well as operationalized strategic initiatives in unstructured, fast paced startups. I am analytically proficient, scientifically fluent, and an entrepreneurial operator, who has delivered measurable business outcomes in Biotech and Life Sciences: Built a financial model dashboard and pricing structure that enabled a technology licensing partnership, generating Y5 revenue $200M Supported long-term strategic planning, evaluated \"Where to play\", and articulated \"How to win\" by presenting a roadmap to launch 5 new products with a $5B market opportunity Drove commercial and operational execution that grew EBITDA 10% Y/Y - ascertained an optimal menu of products, assigned sales targets with bottom up analysis and managed the portfolio P&L Strategized expansion into adjacent categories by affirming high growth (15% Y/Y) and adoption, validated core capabilities required, and conducted an asset screen for M&A Co-authored a US patent describing integration of a prototype for Biodiesel production, that improved manufacturing yield by 20%: Market research and analysis (Surveys, Interviews, secondary) Opportunity Assessment Growth initiatives Strategic planning GTM StrategyProduct DevelopmentBusiness Strategy Financial modelingData Analytics Business DevelopmentExecutive, investor, and board communications R & DLab OperationsChemistry, Chemical EngineeringMolecular Biology, Genomics : Biotech | Life Sciences | Chemicals | ​​Agtech : Python, Tableau, SQL, SPSS, Qualtrics, MS Office suite

Experience

1. Strategy & Operations Lead

   Medgenome

   May 2024 — Present · Foster City, CA, US

Education

• University of Kerala

  Bachelor of Technology, Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering

  2005 — 2009

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General

• University at Buffalo

  Master of Science, Chemical & Biological Engineering

  2009 — 2011

• Loyola School

  High School, English, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology

  2002 — 2005

Skills

• Matlab
• Recombinant Protein Expression
• Assay Development
• Biotechnology
• Crispr
• Molecular Biology
• Protein Expression
• High Throughput Screening
• Pcr
• Sonication
• Fermentation
• Sds-Page
• Qpcr
• Molecular Cloning
• Protein Engineering
• Blast
• Bacterial Transformation
• Cell Culture
• Bioinformatics
• Bacterial Culture
• Recombinant Dna Technology
• Mutagenesis
• Microsoft Office
• Synthetic Biology
• R
• Maple
• Microbiology
• Metabolic Engineering
• Biofuels
• In Vitro