Mandar is a seasoned life sciences executive with a career spanning 20 years across United States and Asia in various commercial roles in start-ups, multinationals as well as government.As the Chief Business Officer at AWAK Technologies, Mandar Gori leads Commercial, Marketing, Clinical and Business Development departments. Under his leadership, US FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation to AWAK’s wearable dialysis product in 2019 and AI models in 2023, two major milestone for AWAK as it became first in the region to achieve this designation and the first globally in the kidney care industry. In his role as the Head of Clinical, AWAK completed its First-In-Human clinical trial proving for the first time safety of a wearable artificial kidney and then the Pre-Pivotal Trial showing long-term safety in humans. At AWAK, he was instrumental in successfully closing Singapore’s largest MedTech Series A funding round.Prior to AWAK, Mandar was Deputy Director at A*STAR, Singapore's premier R&D and commercialisation agency, where he successfully established programs to train and develop local MedTech talent. As a Commercial Manager at Hill-Rom (acquired by Baxter in 2021), a global $12 Billion medical device manufacturer, Mandar successfully launched several products in the Asian markets. In his role at Hill-Rom he managed sales channels across China, ASEAN, S.Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indian sub-continent. In his early career, Mandar was a Project Manager at a US-based digital health start-up MedMined Inc. where he launched first-of-a-kind AI solutions to provide unmatched clinical intelligence at point-of-care. MedMined was later acquired by Cardinal Health, spun-off into CareFusion and then acquired by Becton Dickinson (BD).Mandar has a keen interest in talent development. He has been a frequent guest speaker at Singapore-Stanford Biodesign, a joint programme of Government of Singapore and Stanford University to train and develop next generation of entrepreneurs. He was a mentor at Junior Achievement in Singapore, one of the world’s largest non-profit organization preparing younger generation to succeed in a global economy. As a teaching volunteer at Akanksha Foundation he mentored underprivileged kids from the streets of Mumbai.Mandar has a MBA from Nanyang Business School (Singapore), MS in Healthcare Informatics from University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) and BE in Information Technology from Mumbai University (India). He holds several patents related to kidney care technologies besides having published several articles in this area.