Ferzaan N Engineer, Ph.D., was CEO Quintiles Research (India) Private Limited and Chairman of Quintiles Data Processing Centre (India) Private Limited. He was a member of the Asia-Pacific Management Board of Quintiles responsible for managing the Asia-Pacific geographies. Ferzaan has contributed to establishing and growing the Quintiles organisation in India which currently employs over 1300 people at four locations: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. After obtaining his B.Pharm. in 1985 from the LM College of Pharmacy in Ahmedabad, Dr. Engineer completed his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1990, from the College of Pharmacy at the University of South Carolina, USA. He has attended management training programs at the Kenan-Flagler Business School (USA) and IIMA (India).

Dr. Jasmin Patel is an international executive with broad experiences in the areas of strategy, M&A, sales, marketing, R&D and investing in the healthcare and pharma sectors. Since 2005 he is based in Mumbai. Jasmin has been a Managing Director at Fidelity Growth Partners India. In this role, he led growth capital investments in healthcare & lifescience companies as well as other sectors of the Indian economy. Prior to Fidelity, Jasmin held multiple roles with Novartis including COO for their India business and global head of disease area strategy and M&A for their pharma business out of Switzerland. He has also spent several years in the US with McKinsey & Company advising companies across the world on the entire range of activities in the life sciences.

Jasmin has a B.Pharm degree from Bombay University (gold medalist), a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry with honors from Duquesne University, and an M.B.A. from Wharton. He also spent 2 years as a PPG Post-doctoral Fellow at the world renowned Scripps Research Institute in California.

PhD Senior Principal Research Fellow; Director, Diabetes & Obesity Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research; NHMRC Principal Research Fellow; Professor (Adjunct), School of Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of New South Wales

While a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University, in the lab of Paul Pilch, and later with Mike Mueckler in St Louis, USA, James discovered and cloned the GLUT4 transporter that is found on muscle and fat cells and is regulated by insulin - the papers describing these findings are now citation classics. Since then, he has focused his attention on connecting the dots between insulin binding to its receptor at the membrane and increased glucose uptake. In 1999, James won the Glaxo Wellcome Medal recognizing his contribution to his field. In 2006, he received the highest award given by the Australian Diabetes Society: the Kellion Award and in 2007 was made a Fellow of Australia's Academy of Sciences.