Sandy Krishnamurthy

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About Sandy Krishnamurthy

Seasoned, senior manager with global experience in strategic and operations planning, implementing new products: medical devices, software, consumables, and services. ability in thinking strategically while implementing tactically from product plan to global product distribution and after sales support. Results oriented with strengths in Matrix management and team building. Long track record of commercially successful products. Professional Experience 2017-Present General Manager NOW Diagnostics Instrument Division Established the Instrument Division in Southern California for the Arkansas based company and hired and managed a team of engineers and consultants to design, build, test, and put into production an electro optical reader. Implemented and managed ISO 13485 certification. 2003-2017 Consultant Supported needs of companies in terms of product, software requirements, project management and clinical evaluations. Successfully managed the development of an immunochemistry system in Italy. Principle Advisor for the NIH Commercialization assistant program. 2001-2003 DAKO Corporation, Carpinteria, CA Project Manager Responsible for new generation staining and image analysis instrument system. 1993-2001 Consultant Consulting services to major diagnostic companies including Boehringer Mannheim Corporation (now Roche) Germany, AVL List GMBH Austria, AVL Medical in Switzerland, AVL Scientific, and Specialty Medical Systems US. 1992-1993 Boehringer Mannheim Corporation, Indianapolis, IN. Senior Product Line Manager Planning, implementing, and marketing of new automated clinical chemistry systems 1983-1992 Beckman Coulter Inc, Brea, CA. Program Manager, Instrument Systems and Consumables Defined and managed fifty new products (instruments, reagent kits, and software) with responsibility for all business functions from R&D, manufacturing, QA, finance, and marketing. Successfully negotiated licenses for new products and technologies both in the US and Europe. Supervised clinical field trials in Europe and Japan. 1979-1983 Beckman Coulter Inc, Brea, CA. Quality Assurance Manager 1977-1979 Beckman Coulter Inc, Brea, CA. Senior Chemist 1975-1977 Central Laboratory, Garden Grove, CA. Medical Technologist Education M.S,(Biochemistry) University of California, San Diego. M.Sc,(Chemistry) University of Madras, India. B.Sc,(Chemistry) University of Madras, India. Certification in Healthcare Management, UCI. American Society of Clinical Pathologist (ASCP) certification.