Vivek Sharma is the CEO of Decision Resources Group (DRG); a Boston based global company helping healthcare businesses achieve commercial excellence through expert consultation, proprietary data and technology solutions.
Prior to DRG, Mr. Sharma served as CEO of Piramal Pharma Solutions (PPS), a global leader in Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing services for the Lifesciences industry. At PPS, Mr. Sharma played a key role in driving rapid growth by spearheading the transformation of the business to a full-service CDMO, focusing on organic growth with synergistic well-timed acquisitions and strategic investments and establishing the business as a ‘Partner of Choice’ among pharma and biotech companies.
He envisioned and moulded a distinctive customer and patient-centric approach at PPS, with a dedicated customer centricity team, which is a first-of-its-kind in the pharmaceutical contract manufacturing sector, enabling PPS to reliably serve patients through its customers.
Mr. Sharma joined the Piramal Group in 2011 and led the Piramal Critical Care (PCC) business division where he was instrumental in improving profitability and establishing it as the third largest and fastest growing Inhalation Anesthetics company, globally.
Previously, Mr. Sharma has served as Managing Director at THL Partners, a Boston-based global private equity fund, and has held senior leadership positions in Finance and Operations at AMD and Motorola.
With over 25 years of global management experience, he was recognized as the Global ‘CEO of the Year’, 2015 at CPhI Worldwide in Madrid and has been listed amongst ‘The Top 100 Finance Professionals in the United States’.
Mr. Sharma is based out of Boston and is a Chartered Accountant from India, a qualified CPA, and holds a Master’s degree in International Business from Thunderbird School of Management.
Executive Director, Piramal Group
Non-Executive Director, Piramal Enterprises Ltd.
Founder, Piramal Realty
Executive Director, Piramal Enterprises Ltd.
Vice Chairman, Piramal Glass
Chairman, Piramal Glass Ceylon Plc.