Dr Ajaz Hussain is the President of NIPTE. He is an ex-FDA and has worked in various companies as Workhardt & Philip Morris International.
Dr Ajaz S. Hussain’s mission is to improve the predictability of medicinal product development and regulatory approvals. He has led some of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's major initiatives to develop regulatory policies that already have, and will continue to have, a significant impact on product development and approval in many geographies. His current practice continues this mission, with a focus on helping his clients identify and mitigate risk in their development projects and in non-compliance with regulations.

Utkarsh Palnitkar is a senior management professional with over 30 years of experience across a wide gamut of industries - specializing in Life Sciences, Investment promotion and policy advisory.
Utkarsh was KPMG Life sciences India's head. He was also the Office Managing Partner of E&Y’s Hyderabad practice, where he served at Ernst & Young (E&Y) for 15 years. He was the leader of Advisory as well as the Life sciences practice. Utkarsh is Harvard Business School graduate and he serves on Life Sciences committees of the Government of India.

Srinivas Vangala is the former CIO, Forest labs. He has over 30+ years of experience in leadership roles in Pharmaceuticals including Bristol-Meyers-Squibb, Pfizer, Accenture.
Srinivas has extensive experience in decisive strategic, operational, business technology and financial leadership. His expertise lies in creating a common vision and direction, building high-performance operations and teams, driving new technology investments, and positioning organizations to succeed and grow in competitive and changing business climates. He has assessed & integrated complex M&A related IT infrastructure and architecture, with minimal business impact, while realizing over 95% synergies.

Zoher T. Sihorwala is the head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Wockhardt. He has held leadership positions for the past 20+ years in Global Regulatory at DRL, Glenmark, Zydus.
A Master of Pharmacy in medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry from Jamia Hamdard University, Sihorwala started his career as a junior assistant with Nicholas Piramal (now Piramal healthcare) in 1993. He later worked with Glenmark, Cadila Healthcare and Ranbaxy. He is the part of a team that resolved the regulatory and compliance issues related to the company and resolved many of the regulatory constraints in pharmaceutical industries he has been.

M S Rao is the former head of R&D, Strides Shasun. He has over 30 years of enriching experience in Pharmaceutical Product Development, Packaging Development, Project Management & Facility Creations, Pharmaceutical R&D, Artwork Management.
M S Rao is an eminent veteran with over 30 years of R&D experience in healthcare industry with major global corporations such as Warner Hindustan (Parke-Davis/Pfizer), SOL Pharmaceuticals, DR. Reddy’s Laboratories and Strides Arcolab (Agila Specialities). He holds Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Andhra University and has done his post-graduation diploma in German language from Max Muller Institute India. M S Rao has been a significant contributor to the exponential growth of their business. He had more than 10 patents to his credit.

Professor Jawahar C.V. is Amazon Chair Professor. His research areas include Computer Vision, Machine Language & Multimedia Systems.