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Dr. Ajit Shetty currently serves as the chairman of Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Zwijnaarde, Belgium, which is among one of the world’s top 10 research institutes. He is a member of the board of directors of Agile Therapeutics, NJ, Actinium Pharmaceuticals, NY, and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium and the board of trustees at Carnegie Mellon University, PA.

Dr. Shetty helped launch the pharmaceutical arm of Janssen USA and turned it into a viable strand alone company. He was the Chairman of Janssen Pharmaceutica and a member of the Operating Committee, Johnson & Johnson for 9 years, where he developed and institutionalized a major transformation of the enterprise supply chain to take it to a new level of quality, flexibility and optimization. This initiative resulted in a benefit of $6 – $7 billion in terms of cost of goods, transportation, distribution, and working capital, among other business benefits.

In his tenure with Janssen Pharmaceutica, Dr. Shetty worked as its managing director and Executive Vice President, Finance, a role in which he spearheaded the expansion and growth of the Janssen Group of Companies via innovative product launches and effective commercialization strategies.

Dr. Shetty has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, India in 2008. The honor of Right Honorable Sir and the title of Baron was conferred upon him in 2005. He was also elected “Manager of the Year 2004” by Trends/Flemish Management Association.

Dr. Shetty holds an MBA degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. (Metallurgy) and BA (Natural Sciences), Trinity College, Cambridge University, U.K.