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The Executive Chair for this year’s Annual Meeting offers advice and shares what attendees can expect at the upcoming conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Joydeep Ganguly
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Senior Vice President – Corporate Operations and Chief Sustainability Officer
Joydeep Ganguly serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Operations at Gilead Sciences. In his current role, he is accountable for several strategic functions, including corporate engineering; capital and infrastructure strategy; corporate real estate; risk management; operations research and global procurement. Serving as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the organization, Joydeep also leads Gilead’s environmental sustainability strategies globally. He serves as the Chair of the Gilead Foundation, and also serves as an executive sponsor of Gilead’s Asian Network Employee resources group. Prior to Gilead, Joydeep spent 10 years at Biogen, in roles of increasing responsibility in the areas of process sciences, manufacturing and supply chain. A past board member of the North Carolina Biosciences Organization (NCBIO) and the North Carolina Museum of Life and Sciences, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bay Area Council, Biocom, and is a trustee at Town School for Boys. He also serves on the Board of Advisors for Culture Biosciences, as well on the Advisory Council for NC State University’s Supply Chain research program. He earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.B.A. from North Carolina State University, and an MHA from Cornell University where he received the Sloan award. Joydeep has been recognized by the National Diversity Council as a Top 50 Diverse Leader in California, awarded the Leadership Excellence Award by the California Diversity Council, and was recently named as one of the Top 3 leaders in Climate Science within the Biotech industry.
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