Santosh Khandhar
Founder and Managing Partner @Althea Infusion & Specialty Pharmacy
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WORK HISTORY
Founder and Managing Partner @Althea Infusion & Specialty Pharmacy
At Althea, where healing begins, we deliver personalized, concierge-level care for patients with chronic autoimmune conditions. Through tailored therapies, data-driven oversight, and proactive monitoring, we ensure faster access, better outcomes, and fewer adverse events. Partnering closely with physicians, we simplify care pathways while reducing financial and emotional burdens. Guided by compassion and precision, we are dedicated to improving lives — one patient, one therapy, one healing moment at a time.
EDUCATION
UC San Diego
Bachelor of Science (BS), General Biology
UC San Diego
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics
University of Southern California
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
SKILLS
ABOUT SANTOSH KHANDHAR
Santosh is a sales leader, growth strategist, partnership creator, and expert in specialty & rare disease therapies, with diverse experience building, training and leading high-performance teams in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. In various sales management roles, Santosh has for nearly 15 years helped startups and established companies launch innovative products while educating sales rep teams nationwide. His expertise: sales growth strategy, data analytics & new business development, and relationship selling & partnership alliances. A charismatic communicator, Santosh loves the ‘people side’ of sales and thrives in environments in which he can develop teams—and people—with trust at its core. His leadership experience has honed his superpower: creating strategies, teams and relationships that help patients get the therapies they need. Santosh has held multiple sales, training and management leadership roles at Horizon, a fast-growing global biopharmaceutical company developing medicines that address critical needs for those impacted by rare and rheumatic diseases. He is responsible for building and executing a strategy to launch and grow Tepezza (Thyroid Eye Disease prescription medicine) in targeted geographies. A career highlight is when Santosh led the nation as a Horizon top performer in one of the industry’s most successful launches for a rare disease product. Promoted several times, he has consistently achieved the #1 or #2 rank across nationwide performance categories for the past five years, including Sales (Presidents Club), Training (“Go Getter” Award), and Management (Presidents Club), and surpassed revenue projections totaling tens of millions of dollars. Talk leadership with Santosh, and he’ll tell you he’s a teacher at heart and leads with passion, conviction—and a whole lot of grit. An advocate of lifelong learning, and a mentor to new hires, Santosh welcomes the challenge of aligning people’s purpose with their potential. His philosophy: Today, do your best; tomorrow, do better. Santosh holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in General Biology from UCSD, and an MBA from USC. Santosh’s passion for cultivating relationships transcends the workplace into his personal life. Just ask any of his weekend guests who have enjoyed his home cooking; we’re told Santosh makes a mean lasagna.
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