Sanj Kumar
Sanj Kumar is Sr. Vice President and General Manager, responsible for the European Operation in DiscoveRx. Sanj has a long history of working for life science companies and taking new technologies to market. His career started at Pharmacia Biotech, where he was responsible for the setting up of the telemarketing operation and managing a sales territory simultaneously. In 1994 he moved to Pharmacia Biosensor, which later became Biacore, where he spent seven years, taking optical biosensor technology to market, making his way from UK Sales Manager to European Vice President Sales & Marketing. In 2001, Sanj joined DiscoveRx, and set up the European Operation, growing the business in revenue and personnel. Sanj studied at the Institute of Neurology in London, UK and the department of biomedicine in Nagoya, Japan. He was founding treasurer of the European LRIG organization and has served on Biotechnology and Bioinformatics theme panel of the Biochemical Society.
