Najur Runganadhan

COPD Commercial Effectiveness Head Novartis

Najur Runganadhan is a Business Partner, supporting the US Pharma Division at Novartis.  He was previously Head of Commercial Effectiveness for the US Pharma COPD Franchise, and joined Novartis as a lead within the Portfolio & Advanced Analytics team, supporting the US Pharma Division.

Prior to Novartis, Najur led the West Coast CES Delivery Team at IMS Health, supporting a broad variety of pharma, bio-tech and oncology focused companies, primarily located on the West Coast.

He also has extensive experience working at the brand and portfolio level across Patient and HCP focused sales, marketing and commercialization efforts in both client-side and consulting roles, for companies such as J&J, Pfizer, Wyeth, AstraZeneca, Lily, and others.

He has led and been part of pre-launch, launch and LOE product teams, working across a variety of therapeutic areas within the CV, Metabolics, Oncology, Immunology, Neuroscience, GI, Infectious Disease and Vaccines categories.