Award Honors Top Executives Fueling Innovation and Impact in the Life Sciences Industry
Axtria, a global leader in cloud software and data analytics for the life sciences industry, has announced the recipients of its first-ever Ignite Leadership Awards, honoring leaders who have demonstrated excellence in driving innovation, transformation, and value creation in their organizations and the industry. This first cohort of annual honorees was presented at the Axtria Ignite 2024 conference, the premier life sciences commercial leaders’ event held on June 12 and 13 in Princeton, N.J.
“We are thrilled to honor these outstanding leaders with an Ignite Leadership Award, which celebrates their achievements and contributions to the life sciences industry,” said Jassi Chadha, CEO and co-founder of Axtria. “Each individual exemplifies the qualities of vision, innovation, transformation, authority, and championing that we value and admire at Axtria.”
Arvind Balasundaram, Executive Director, Commercial Insights & Analytics, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Abhishek Narayan Singh, Chief Analytics Officer & Head of Digital Solutions, Human Health, Merck
Steve Winawer, Head of Data, Digital, and Technology, US Business Unit, Takeda
Ashish Sharma, Enterprise Data Officer & Vice President, Strategic Data Products, Novartis US
Cary Anne Schockemoehl, Vice President, Global Commercial Capabilities, Practices & Strategic Planning, GSK
Chitra Narasimhachari, Vice President, Global Decision Sciences and Insights, Gilead Sciences
The Axtria Ignite 2024 conference welcomed senior-level clients from more than 60 of the world’s top life sciences organizations who delivered excellent thought leadership and fostered creative thinking across nearly 20 panels and sessions.
Axtria’s Ignite Leadership Awards, honoring leaders who drive innovation, transformation, and value creation in life sciences, include Arvind Balasundaram, Executive Director, Commercial Insights & Analytics, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Abhishek Narayan Singh, Chief Analytics Officer & Head of Digital Solutions, Human Health, Merck; Steve Winawer, Head of Data, Digital, and Technology, US Business Unit, Takeda; Ashish Sharma, Enterprise Data Officer & Vice President, Strategic Data Products, Novartis US; Cary Anne Schockemoehl, Vice President, Global Commercial Capabilities, Practices & Strategic Planning, GSK; and Chitra Narasimhachari, Vice President, Global Decision Sciences and Insights, Gilead Sciences. Axtria CEO and Founder Jassi Chadha presented each.
Axtria is proud to work with 16 of the top 20 life sciences companies, globally. From our roots as a trusted consultant to our status as one of the world’s leading providers of cloud-based pharmaceutical management software, Axtria has been powering the digital transformation of life sciences. Our experts call upon years of domain experience in the industry to guide pharma giants from brand launches to retirement. Our products go even further. Axtria InsightsMAx™ helps everyone from the C-suite to junior associates uncover trends to make better decisions. Axtria SalesIQ™ helps optimize field forces and provider engagements. Axtria CustomerIQ™ leverages AI-enabled next best action omnichannel choices. Axtria MarketingIQ™ turns investment analyses into pinpoint strategies. And Axtria DataMAx™ and DataMAx™ for Emerging Pharma is the data management framework that pulls it all together with best-in-class security and integration.