EPYGEN GROUP MANAGEMENT
Debayan Ghosh
Co-Founder & President
Debayan’s vision for Epygen is to “emerge as a leading biotech innovator enhancing human life”. Having worked for leading Biotech companies in the United States and India for more than a decade prior to founding Epygen, Debayan realized the potential for biotechnology to shape tomorrow’s world, as in Epygen’s tag line “building future strand by strand”. Through his education and experience, he observed how modification of proteins using the recombinant path revolutionized areas from critical healthcare to chemicals and clean energy. Leading a team of scientists, technologists and business professionals at Epygen’s labs, manufacturing facilities and offices in Dubai, India and USA, innovation for sustainable development had been his key focus. Debayan obtained a Master of Technology degree from the Centre for Biotechnology – India, and has taken International business courses from the IIM. He has authored several scientific publications in international journals and patents.
Ariyarathenam Manickam
Co-Founder
Ariyarathenam. M. is a self made Business man, who has, during his 30 years of experience, founded a multinational group of companies with 7 offices in 4 countries with total staff strength of more than 200. Ariyarathenam’s group companies are involved both in manufacturing and trading of speciality chemicals and also in the travel and tourism sector. Focussing his business mainly on the dynamic South Asian market with sourcing associations from USA, Europe and East Asian countries, Ariyarathenam is a well-travelled and updated businessman who changed the art of simple trading in his industry to best professional standards with full complement of qualified technical staff and laboratory support.
Ineeyan Ariyaratnam
Director & Vice President
Before joining Epygen, Ineeyan worked as a Director of Business development & Finance with Fabpro Specialities, a Multinational specialty chemical corporation, where he restructured international sourcing and fund disbursement, developing new and profitable business verticals. Ineeyan has a BSc Business Management degree from Kings College of London and an MBA in Operations and Finance from SP Jain Institute.
Ravi Kulkarni
Sales Director
Ravi Kulkarni is a Sales Director at Epygen Labs responsible for the company’s sales activities. He graduated in Science from Osmania University followed by a full time MBA, specializing in Marketing & Finance from TAPMI, Manipal. An industry expert with about 25 years of successful experience in industrial B2B selling, Ravi started his career with Biocon, India followed by a long stint with German Food and Flavour houses – Rudolf Wild GmbH and Symrise AG, mainly operating in the ME region as Director of Sales.
He is responsible for Epygen’s sales activities, drawing from his rich experience by way of developing business strategies, incubating new business models, through a systems oriented approach.
