Nand Kumar Email & Phone Number

Doylestown, Pa

CriticalGaps is a global health promotion and access plaform designed to identify healthcare gaps in resource poor settings around the world, and to help plan and implement innovative and sustainable solutions. By adopting a simple grassroots technique of Teach-Treat-Build-Serve, and by leveraging public-private partnerships, CriticalGaps explores healthcare access opportunities in targeted regions. Concurrently, CriticalGaps engages with an ever-evolving network of like-minded stakeholders – pharma companies, global brand marketing and communications experts, public health organizations at local/regional levels, NGOs and humanitarian groups, and global health research institutions -- to help design and execute healthcare programs of enduring impact and value.CriticalGaps is the culmination of twenty five years of hands-on global marketing and access expertise in the pharmaceutical industry. Expertise includes brand promotion and event management in developed markets, as well as development of a robust global health access platform in poor-income markets with projects ranging from institutional branding in Bangladesh to evidence-based antimicrobial training in far-east Asia to need-based product donation programs in Central/Latin America and Africa.

N. Wales, Pa

Provided strategic and tactical leadership to help optimize franchise/brand presence and visibility at global and US scientific congresses, while also ensuring alignment with franchise/brand marketing goals and objectives.. Winner of numerous Awards for Excellence from multiple brand teams. ◆ Developed and leveraged stakeholder relationships across the board – regional affiliates, medical and scientific societies and congress organizers – and counseled core teams on appropriate exhibit activities to optimize customer engagement. ◆Liaisoned with external vendors and managed operational and circumstantial contingencies promptly and efficiently.

Icddr,B -- Dhaka, Bangladesh

Privileged to be selected as a Richard T. Clark Fellow for the Merck Fellowship for Global Health program. This corporate fellowship is an intense three-month field program wherein select Merck employees serve as pro bono management consultants and provide compelling healthcare supply/delivery as well as marketing/communications ideas and solutions to nonprofit partner organizations around the world My fellowship assignment was with icddr,b, a pre-eminent Dhaka-based international research organization devoted to developing evidence-based solutions to diseases of poverty. In this role, I provided strategic insights and recommendations to icddr,b Executive Director as well as icddr,b Board of Trustees on several issues of institutional leadership and governance. Accomplishments: ◆ Redefined institutional vision / branding to showcase icddr,b’s iconic global health leadership and innovation ◆ Channeled institutional research framework to focus on user relevance and global impact ◆ Incorporated action-specific messaging into global stakeholder outreach and advocacy planning ◆Identified strategic collaboration opportunities with NGOs, global health organizations, and corporate partners ◆ Integrated push-pull communications into knowledge dissemination processes and protocols ◆ Developed strategic impact rationale to support research funding proposals to global foundationsPost-fellowship feed back from icddr,b:“Nand's service was really an important piece of work for helping the institution in its attempt to reach its strategic objectives.” — Graham Judd, Communications Director, icddr,b (2013)

Collegeville, Pa

Engaged proactively with senior management and external stakeholders to put the company on a robust CSR/global health platform. Provided entrepreneurial leadership and vision in a global matrix environment -- helped shift paradigms and change mindsets – to achieve exceptional results in the face of operational and budgetary constraints. Focus on long-term sustainability helped drive innovative philanthropy/CSR and access-to-medicines programs in developing and underserved markets. As the primary corporate public affairs liaison with WHO, provided strategic leadership and direction on a unique new-drug development collaboration for the potential eradication of river blindness in sub-Saharan Africa. Served as corporate spokesperson with multi-disciplinary stakeholder advocacy groups engaged in long-term disease control programs as well as need-based product philanthropy/CSR initiatives.

◆Creative leader in the development – and execution -- of innovative promotional concepts, resulting in optimal product branding and presence at global meetings.

Strategy leader in development and execution of transformational positioning and promotion concepts for global brand performance excellence. Managed $2.5M budget to deliver differentiated brand promotion programs for multiple specialty groups. Comprehensive promotion projects (diverse formats) helped galvanize sales efforts worldwide, resulting in above-plan performance.Spearheaded brand promotion campaign for new treatment paradigm in glaucoma management. Campaign helped position flagship product and invigorate sales worldwide. Winner of WHHM corporate marketing award for Best Plan.

Team leader and top performer in the Chicago region. Drove exceptional sales targets and performance by optimizing prescription sales and customer data . Mentored and on-boarded new sales reps to achieve regional sales targets.

Mba, Marketing & Management

Activities and Societies: .Focus on international markets, including summer session at the university's Rome campus

Ma, Mass Communications

Reviewed books and films for Minnesota Daily, university student newspaper