PRASHANT MIRAJKAR, President, Bio-Analytical Technologies

•   Prashant Mirajkar has 45 years of technical and managerial experience in information technology across a variety of industries.

•   He is currently the CEO and president of Bio-Analytical Technologies. BAT provides niche services and products related to analytical instruments & software, pharma/Clinical Research core operations to clients worldwide.

•   He is the visionary behind the ground-breaking product QoE Ally, which assists pharma/CRO customers in their Industry 4.0 transformation.

•   Early assignments included creating a Micro-Vax interface for India's supercomputer Param, developing an automated testing tool for office productivity tools by Digital Equipment Corp, HK, and launching the first ever training courses in India on topics such as PC Repair/Maintenance, AutoCAD, C/C++, Linux Internals, and so on.

•   He spent many years on Wall Street, leading the architecture & development of large-scale mission-critical systems and products used by major financial institutions.

•   He returned to India and worked for a few years with a bootstrapped startup before joining IBM India.

•   He was recognised for his contribution to IBM's global transformation in Global Delivery and was instrumental in the rapid growth of Application Innovation Services at IBM. He was a global Solutioning Leader for application innovations and complex system integration.

•   His solutions were implemented in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace, and finance.

•   Prior to leaving IBM, he was the India leader for Application Innovation Services, where he was instrumental in the application rollout at India's Big-3 telecoms.