Team

A certified neurodevelopmental therapist with 16 years of experience in clinical trials and pharmacovigilance, Shyam Ramamurthy has served as a Drug Safety Manager at ICON Clinical Research Organization. At ICON, he led a team of medical and safety professionals, ensuring regulatory compliance for many top pharmaceutical companies. He also acted as a deputy Qualified Person for PharmacoVigilance (QPPV) for some of his life sciences clients.

His illustrious career also includes his role in Accenture as a service lead, Chief Physiotherapist, Sub-Investigator, and study coordinator. He also holds certifications in GCP and ICH.

As a life sciences manager, Brian brings 25 years of experience to JOGO. His career spans prominent roles at Cegedim Dendrite, Sidmak Labs, Odyssey Pharmaceuticals, Pliva Inc., CliniSys, SpringHill Consulting, and RxCess. Brian has also served at the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and brings a high degree of compassion and empathy to his patient-focused work. Brian's experience spans various fields such as:

• Development and management of CRM tools
• Billing applications
• Help desk teams
• Clinical trials applications
• Drug sampling tools
• Patient assistance programs
• Marketing & sales management
• Fleet management
• Medical education programs
• Commercial regulatory review
• Territory development
• Commercial team development & oversight
• Pharmaceutical business development
• Agency management
• P & L management and training.
• Staff recruitment & development

One can reach him at Brian@JogoHealth.com.

Uma Venkatesa is a pelvic floor physiotherapist certified by the American board with over 30 years of experience. She has closely collaborated with gastroenterologists, urogynecologists, and obstetrician-gynaecologists in pelvic floor physiotherapy rehabilitation. From 1992 until 2000, Uma has worked for several hospitals, ACLFs and Women's/ Pelvic Rehab Clinics in Tampa, Florida. She has immense experience in antenatal and postnatal care and handling patients with aches, pains, incontinence, breast cancer and stroke.

Uma has trained several physiotherapists through her workshops on pelvic floor dysfunctions. She has played a big role in creating awareness about pelvic floor health in corporates, educational institutions, and women's forums. Several of Uma's scientific papers have been presented at scientific meetings. Moreover, her two-and-a-half-year study on interferential therapy for incontinence received the Best Physiotherapist Award from the State and National Indian Associations of Physiotherapists Conferences in 1991.

Charles Jesudasan is a pharma sales & marketing professional having 25 years of experience across multiple therapies & specialties. He started his career at Sanofi in1997 as Medical Representative, got promoted on fast track as the youngest Area Manager at the age of 25, and the youngest Regional Manager in June 2005.

As a Regional Manager at Sanofi, Charles grew his regional CAGR at 16% compared to the 12% national CAGR, thanks to his consistent team building, customer engagement and brand building discipline.

In 2012, Charles started his career in marketing as Sr. Product Manager at Sanofi Mumbai and soon got promoted as Marketing Manager & Marketing Head, handling brands worth 170 crores+ across LCM & strategic projects.

In June '18, he joined Abbott India as the Business Unit head for Neurolife (475+ team size) and scripted the BU turnaround winning the Best BU award for 2019 & most profitable BU across Abbott. He moved to Abbott healthcare to turn around the CNS BU in 2020 & was again successful in driving leveraged P&L with strong double digit growth in 2021.

Charles has a B.Pharm, PGCBM -XLRI and MMM from Pondicherry University. He has contributed to the pharma industry by developing many first and second line managers in sales, marketing and training, while maintaining high ethical standards and values.

He was awarded the Best Mentor in 2017, Brand Excellence Awards (3/6 yrs: 2012-2018), Twice nominated the OPPI awards, MD's trophy for Best RBM (2007-2009), OCS Trophy (1997-1999), Best BU in Abbott.