Senior Vice President – Corporate Operations and Chief Sustainability Officer
Joydeep Ganguly is Senior Vice President, Corporate Operations at Gilead Sciences. In his current role, he is accountable for a number of strategic functions, including corporate engineering and operations; infrastructure and capital planning; sustainability; risk management and resilience; global procurement; and the program management office. Joydeep also oversees Gilead’s footprint strategy and corporate real estate portfolio. Prior to Gilead, Joydeep spent 10 years at Biogen, where he held executive positions of increasing responsibility the technical operations, manufacturing and supply chain functions. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Council, Science from Scientists and North Carolina State University’s Supply Chain Research Consortium. Recognized by ISPE with the Roger Sherwood article of the year, Joydeep has published extensively in areas of bioprocess optimization, supply chain transformation and advanced process control. He was recently recognized by the National Diversity Council as a top 50 diverse leader in California. Joydeep earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, a Master of Business Administration from North Carolina State University and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in healthcare management from Cornell University.
The lack of diversity in the pharmaceutical engineering industry is widely recognized. Less well understood is why change is so hard to achieve. From my years of work in this space, and through observation of ongoing efforts to embrace diversity in all forms, I have developed a hypothesis: Progress is stifled because we as a society wrongly believe diversity and inclusion efforts are...