Ex-Viatris Chief Sandeep Rao joins Solara Active Pharma Sciences as MD, CEO

Solara Active Pharma Sciences Limited has announced the appointment of Sandeep Rao as an Additional Director - Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on the Board of Directors of the Company for a term of 3 (three) years subject to approval of the Shareholders of the Company. The previous CEO, MD of the organisation, Poorvank Purohit resigned due to personal reasons. 

In addition, the Company has appointed Sarat Kumar as a Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) and designated him as Key Managerial Personnel (“KMP”).

Furthermore, Vishal Mathur has also been appointed as the Chief Business Officer (CBO) in the capacity of Senior Managerial Personnel of the Company.  

Sandeep Rao has a rich career experience of 25+ years characterized by strategic growth - oriented thinking, focus on finding value creating opportunities, managing talented and high-performance teams, relentless execution and partnership management. Prior to this, Sandeep worked as CEO of Tenshi Pharma. Before this, Sandeep was Vice President and Head of Business Development for Emerging Markets with Viatris. Prior to Viatris, he was with the Biocon group for 16 years, the last position held being Senior Vice President and Head of the Insulins business.