Ruchin Kansal

Ruchin Kansal


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  • July 27, 2018

Ruchin Kansal

Vice President

Virtusa

Title: Building the Next Generation Life Sciences Unicorn: A Data-Driven Enterprise

Track: Analytics

Ruchin Kansal is Vice President and Digital Business Strategy leader for the Healthcare, Insurance and Life Science industries at Virtusa Corporation (VRTU), a leading global supplier of digital engineering services for the Information Age.

Mr. Kansal possesses a wealth of strategic consulting experience from previous roles with Deloitte and CapGemini, where he has helped global organizations deal with challenges ranging from developing revenue growth strategies, launching new business units and products, obtaining market access and building reimbursement strategies, performing acquisition due diligence, merger integrations, IP licensing, and global commercial operations.

He is the author of the newly released book – “Redefining Innovation: Embracing The 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry”, which is focused on helping incumbents drive innovation and new growth opportunities. (Publisher: Taylor & Francis/Routledge. June 2018).

Most recently prior to joining Virtusa, Mr. Kansal served as the Country Head for Business Innovation at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc, where he established and led their first Business Innovation division. In this role, he was responsible for setting and managing company-wide growth focused innovation agenda, launching the company’s first Digital Health team, building ecosystem collaborations with customers to co-create health solutions, and driving culture change.

Ruchin has been invited to the White House Office of Science and Technology Partnerships to share ideas on healthcare research. In 2016, Medical Marketing & Media recognized Ruchin with its annual Top 40 Healthcare Transformers Award. He received Boehringer Ingelheim’s President’s Award for initiating the company’s first Patient Engagement Strategy. He has served on the Board of Directors for Stanford Medicine X, whose mission is to solve health care’s most pressing problems

Ruchin received his MBA from NYU-Stern, Bachelors from IIT, Roorkee (India) and leadership training at Duke University and Kunshan University (China).