Mr. Arun Chandavarkar
Chief Financial Officer
Dr. Arun Suresh Chandavarkar, B.Tech., M.S., Ph. D. has been Joint Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Biocon Ltd. since July 25, 2014. Dr. Chandavarkar served as the Chief Operating Officer of Biocon Ltd. from April 2006 to April 24, 2014.
Dr. Chandavarkar served as the President, Operations and Technology of Biocon Ltd. and has been with Bioncon Ltd., since 1990. He joined Biocon as General Manager - Operations in 1990 and subsequently took on the role of President - Operations & Technology.
Under his leadership, Biocon established expertise at large scale in diverse technology platforms spanning microbial fermentation, cell culture, chemical synthesis and purification to address a wide portfolio of products from specialty enzymes to active pharmaceutical ingredients to recombinant therapeutic proteins. He has been an Additional Director of Biocon Ltd. since April 24, 2014.
Dr. Chandavarkar completed his B Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1984, and was awarded a Ph.D. in BioChemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA in 1990.