Leadership

Tarun Prashanth

Chief Executive Officer ( CEO )

Tarun Prashanth is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Synapmed. Tarun is an experienced businessman with years of experience in the Life Sciences industry. Tarun is in charge of setting and executing the company’s vision. In collaboration with the operational leaders of the company, Tarun strives hard to ensure that our clients get the highest levels of production quality. Tarun completed his B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.

Nara Murthy

Vice President- Customer Success & Technology Transformation

Nara Murthy is an Enterprise thought leader in the Pharma R&D and Commercialization subject areas of Patient, Product, Clinical Safety & Operations, Regulatory and Laboratory Information Management, Market Access & Oncology Medical Affairs delivering Customer centric technology and business and technology services. Mr. Murthy comes to Synapmed with over 25 years of illustrious experience working at Pharma, Biotechnology, Generics healthcare, Automotive as well as Telecom heavy weight industry verticals.

Nara Murthy holds a BS degree from Bangalore University and an associate degree from ace.edu(NIIT). He plans to pursue his masters at Penn Engineering of University of Pennsylvania. During his downtime, he enjoys playing tennis, cross country bike rides.

Raghavendra Reddy

Vice President – Global Delivery

Dr. Raghavendra Reddy joined Synapmed in India in May 2020. He
comes with more than 15 years of healthcare experience supporting
pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare innovators. At Synapmed,
Dr. Reddy manages operations across all the delivery centers, leading
teams for several large-mid-and small-sized clients. Under his
leadership, the operations are seamlessly delivering on-time with the
desired quality for all our clients.

Before joining Synapmed, Dr. Reddy has helped pharmaceutical
clients meet their needs in their clinical and post-marketing safety
initiatives during his time in Cognizant, Quintiles and iMedGlobal.
His domain expertise and leadership style has led to several
collaborative engagements with our clients. Dr. Reddy holds a medical
degree from Bangalore University, India.

Ravi Sankar

Vice President – Business Operations

Ravi Sankar is an experienced Executive in IT Products and Services Industry for more than 30 years with specialization in Business Operations, Talent Management and in Business Development. He has served in companies like Wipro Ltd and NCR Corporation in leadership and Senior management positions with successful Global and India domestic assignments on Client acquisition, Project execution, Cost management and Talent acquisition. He also had a good stint in Supply Chain and manufacturing of telecommunication products earlier in his career. He was an active member of the CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) for 7 years and served as a Vice Chair of CII in one of their southern Regions in India.

Glenn J. Williams

Legal Counsel

Glenn Williams is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Williams, Graffeo & Stern LLC. Glenn provides comprehensive business law to companies across multiple industry verticals from startup/early stage to established multi-nationals. Glenn brings a general counsel’s unique perspective and keen understanding of business and the law to clients of the firm. He is experienced in growing businesses, including organization, financing, mergers & acquisitions, business development, commercial agreements, human resources, and corporate governance, as well as in various aspects of technology. Glenn obtained his JD from Seton Hall University’s School of Law.

Hernan Barona

Head of Finance- US

Hernan is a highly experienced finance professional helping companies by providing specialized accounting and tax services. He excels at activities such as FP&A, forecasting, budgeting, risk management, cash flow allocation, accounting, and tax planning, to name a few. He received his Masters in Accounting from Colorado State University. During his downtime, he enjoys spending time with his family and being outdoors.

Jaya Vinay

Head of Finance- APAC

Jaya is a highly experienced finance professional heading up finance operations in the APAC region. Her primary responsibilities include ensuring that processes and systems are in place and compliant, as well as the standardization of day-to-day finance operations. She has years of experience working as a finance and accounting professional in the Information Technology space and continues to apply her wealth of knowledge to ensure the compliance of Synapmed’s financial processes.