Sunitha Lakshminarayanan

Sunitha is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience and brings to Melinta a wealth of CMC experience across small molecules, biologics, biosimilars, vaccines, cell/gene therapy and radiotherapeutic products. She brings a passion for helping patients, building strong teams and developing employees. Over the course of her career, she has contributed to the development, commercialization and lifecycle management of several new products and technologies.

Sunitha joins Melinta from Actinium Pharmaceuticals where she was the Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, and overseeing CDMO operations, Regulatory, Quality and Supply Chain functions. Prior to that, Sunitha was at Bristol-Myers Squibb in their Cell Therapy division, as Executive Director, Global Process Engineering where she was responsible for the global licensure of two autologous cell therapy products. Prior to BMS, Sunitha was at Kashiv BioSciences where she led approvals for biosimilar products. Prior to Kashiv, she held various leadership positions at Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Laureate Pharma and BioReliance.  

Sunitha earned her M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology in India.