In this episode of Molecule to Market, you’ll go inside the outsourcing space of the global drug development sector with Evren Ozkaya is the Founder & CEO of Supply Chain Wizard and SCW.AI.

Your host, Raman Sehgal, discusses the pharmaceutical and biotechnology supply chain with Evren, covering:

• The job offer that pulled him away from the McKinsey fast track and into the pharma industry
• Getting hands on experience at Sandoz, delivering real impact before spotting the opportunity to found his own business
• The moment that triggered the shift from consulting to technology, and the rapid build out of a software platform
• The decision to spin out the Digital Factory into a standalone company and raise $10m in Series A funding
• The importance of simplicity and creating a single source of truth on the factory floor
• Why the industry must move towards interconnected, systems thinking rather than isolated point to point solutions
• Why strong networks remain a hidden but powerful advantage in the life sciences sector

Evren Ozkaya, Ph.D. is the Founder & CEO of Supply Chain Wizard (a management consulting firm) and SCW.AI (a technology platform company), helping Pharma manufacturers establish and execute cost-effective and scalable digital transformation programs across manufacturing and supply chain domains by leveraging the state-of-the-art technology.

As a former management consultant at McKinsey & Company and a supply chain executive at Sandoz/Novartis, Dr. Ozkaya led various business transformation programs in over 100 companies in industries such as pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, industrial, logistics and private equity.

Evren Ozkaya received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology with his award-winning thesis on Demand Management in Global Supply Chains. Dr. Ozkaya currently serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, besides his other advisory board roles at Rutgers Business School and Seton Hall University.

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