Vivek has been appointed as Abbott’s Vice President, Established Pharmaceuticals, India with effect from January 1, 2026. He previously served as Abbott’s Divisional Vice President, Corporate Global Marketing, where he led creative strategy and marketing efforts for Abbott’s corporate brand and managed brand partnerships and sponsorships including Real Madrid and the Abbott World Marathon Majors.

He joined Abbott in 1992 as part of product development for Abbott Diagnostics in Illinois. He has held diverse leadership roles across US, UK, India, Indonesia, and the Middle East. His experience includes serving as Senior Director – Integrated Health for Established Pharmaceuticals in India; Managing Director for EPD in Abbott India Limited; General Manager for Abbott Indonesia; and regional commercial roles in North Yorkshire, UK and the Saudi/ Gulf region.

Vivek earned his Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Michigan in 1992 and his M.B.A. in International Business and Marketing from the University of Illinois in 1996.

Kartik Rajendran has over 20 years of management and leadership experience. His tenure at Abbott spans more than 8 years, during which he has held several key roles, including General Manager of Abbott’s Specialty Care business, a part of Abbott Healthcare Private Limited. He is currently the Regional Head for the Southeast Asia Cluster for Abbott’s pharmaceuticals business.

Throughout his leadership at Abbott, Kartik has been instrumental in building high-growth businesses while significantly improving profitability. In Southeast Asia, he led a transformation across multiple countries, driving growth above the market average, and enhancing market position.

As General Manager for Abbott's Specialty Care business in India, Kartik accelerated the performance trajectory of the business.

Kartik’s leadership is characterized by a commitment to commercial excellence, strategic thinking, and a passion for improving patient outcomes. He brings diverse experience, having served as Commercial Director for Abbott's Hospital Business, India Head for New Products, and Commercial Excellence Head at Abbott.

Prior to joining Abbott, Kartik had 16 years of experience across two different industries. He spent six years in McKinsey working on strategic improvement projects in India, Southeast Asia and China. He began his career in the shipping industry working in India, Hong Kong and Singapore, leading multicultural teams of different nationalities.

Kartik holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from Delhi University.

Sudarshan is a veteran in the healthcare business. He has rich business experience in strategic management, corporate affairs, brand building and overall business operations in healthcare companies. His experience covers pharmaceutical, OTC, hospital, diagnostic and nutrition businesses.

He has played active role in shaping the healthcare policy and improving access to healthcare in India and has wide industry knowledge and extensive expertise in building market leading brands.

He is a Director on the Board of Sunshine Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka.

He holds Master’s in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and Bachelor of Science in Physics from St. Stephens College, Delhi.

Mr. Neeraj Jain is a rank holder Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary with over 30 years of management experience in finance, supply chain and business across diversified industries at Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Hindustan Unilever (HUL).

Mr. Jain’s key areas of expertise include strategic business partnering, process excellence, controllership, M&A, business reorganization and talent development.

Mr. Jain began his career in management consulting at A F Fergusons. He subsequently spent seventeen years with HUL, holding positions of increasing responsibility, the last being the General Manager, Commercial (Exports). He led and executed several M&A and divestment deals, set up joint venture overseeing finance, IT, procurement and HR. Later he reorganized the exports business where he was also the board member of Ponds Exports Limited.

Mr. Jain later joined J&J, where he served for thirteen years in senior leadership roles, including Vice President Finance/ Chief Financial Officer. He was a member of the India Management Board and served as a director on the board of the orthopaedics business. He introduced the finance business partnering model in India, led process simplification and standardization while driving compliance and cost optimization. He transitioned in acquired companies, transitioned out businesses while optimising results and remodelled the ASEAN countries to a business unit-based structure. He also worked on a global strategic project to refine key business strategies relevant for next twenty-five years for J&J Medical globally.

Post retirement from J&J in 2020, Mr. Jain co-founded Vinners, an angel investment platform comprising approximately 150 CXOs, and serves as founding director of the entity responsible for investment decisions and governance oversight.

Mr. Jain was recognized among the 100 most influential CFOs in India by CIMA in 2016 and by 9.9 Media in 2015.

Shalini is a Transformation Strategist and an Executive Coach. As a Transformation Strategist, she assists organizations through their change and transformation journey to enhance productivity, efficiency, processes, systems and organizational culture. She is a certified and practicing Executive Coach having completed numerous assignments across financial services, logistics, agri, manufacturing and consumer industries.

Her Human Resources career spans close to a decade and half with Group HR Head positions for large corporates. Prior to her roles in HR, Shalini as the Marketing Director at Raytheon India was responsible for Business Development of large multi-million dollar programs in the areas of Defense and Commercial Electronics.

Shalini began her working career in Zambia and Botswana in Southern Africa. Over a decade, she worked with the Governments of both the countries and acquired extensive experience in tripartite partnership projects related to community-oriented income generation programs.

She is a Director on the Board of Bosch Home Comfort India Limited; Expleo Solutions Limited; Healthium Medtech Limited; Ambit Finvest Private Limited; Maple Infra Invit Investment Manager Private Limited and Trrain Foundation.

She holds Master’s in Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School, UK; training from Harvard Business School in change and transformation; alumnus of CSC Global leadership program and a certified Zenger Folkman Leadership4you trainer and facilitator.

Mr. James Wenner is Vice President, Treasurer for Abbott Laboratories, USA. He was appointed to his current role in November 2025.

Mr. Wenner previously served as Vice President, Internal Audit for Abbott Laboratories, USA. He joined Abbott in 1994 as a Senior Auditor and has since held numerous finance leadership roles within the Nutrition and Diagnostics businesses.

Mr. Wenner is active in Abbott’s Finance Development Committee. He also serves as Chairman of the Board for ALEC, the Abbott and AbbVie sponsored employee credit union.

Prior to joining Abbott, Mr. Wenner was a Certified Public Accountant with Deloitte. He holds a degree in Accounting from Michigan State University.

Kaiyomarz holds strong legal acumen and extensive experience in corporate compliance functions, litigation, industrial licensing, foreign collaborations, technology transfer arrangements, distribution arrangements, commercial and IPR matters, among others, in pharmaceutical, healthcare and engineering industries.

He has been associated with Abbott for about 28 years, including over 25 years in their full-time employment. During this period, he held positions of increasing responsibility and built a highly skilled team of legal and corporate secretarial professionals.

He has served on the Board of the Company since 2011.

Kaiyomarz has been a strong business partner and has played a vital role in the acquisition of various brands and businesses and handled cross functional projects such as manufacturing reconfiguration/optimization and corporate restructuring. He played a key role in setting up the formal compliance framework and policies for Abbott in India.

He is a Director on the Board of SNL Bearings Limited.

He is a Law Graduate from Government Law College, Mumbai.

Darshan Gada brings over 21 years of extensive and diverse experience in Finance, spanning Commercial Operations, Taxation, Supply Chain Finance, Merger & Acquisitions and Strategy. Known for his forward-thinking approach, Darshan has led numerous automation, gross margin improvement and cash flow management initiatives and is deeply committed to nurturing high-performing finance talent.

He is currently serving as the Regional Finance Director at Abbott Healthcare Private Limited heading the Financial Planning and Analysis function for Abbott’s Established Pharmaceuticals business in India. Over his tenure at Abbott, he has held several key leadership roles such as - steering finance for a large commercial unit with accelerated growth, leading supply chain finance to drive cost leadership strategies, and shaping long-term business strategy developing and implementing Go to Market strategy for diversified business. His contributions also include business integration, Merger & Acquisitions, and core accounting. Darshan began his career at Deloitte, followed by a pivotal role at Piramal Healthcare in scaling the rural healthcare business.

Darshan is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a Commerce graduate degree from R. A. Podar College, Mumbai.