Ms. Anu Acharya

Biography

 Ms. Anu Acharya is the Founder and director of Ocimum Biosolutions. She had founded Ocimum Biosolutions in 2000 and led the company through strategic international acquisitions, capital raises for equity investments and launch of several innovative products, solutions and services. She currently serves as a governing board member at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the premier R&D Organization in India and also a governing board member at the National Institute for Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG). Ms. Acharya is a past President of the Hyderabad Chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization and currently serves on the board of Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE). She was recently named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum for its class of 2011. In 2008, she was named Biospectrum “Entrepreneur of the Year” and was conferred the Astia Life Science Innovators Award. She was selected by Red Herring Magazine to the list of “25 Tech Titans under 35″ in 2006. Prior to founding Ocimum Biosolutions, Ms. Acharya has had rich experience in the Telecom, IT and entrepreneurship arenas. She worked for a start-up in the telecommunications space called Mantiss Information and a consulting firm called SEI Information where she helped create a social networking site for entrepreneurs. Her experience is backed by education at premier institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India (IIT) and University of Illinois where she has two Post Graduate degrees, in Physics and MIS.

Research Interest

 Biomedical Genomics, Biotechnology, Business Management