Senior Hires Strengthen Global Offer for Konovo

In Watertown, MA, USA, healthcare intelligence company Konovo has appointed two healthcare technology industry veterans, Swathi Kulkarni and Tom Halliday to its executive leadership team, with the respective titles of MD India and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

Konovo was formed nine months ago from the merger of the three healthcare research firms within Apollo Intelligence - InCrowd, SHG and GlocalMind. The group operates across thirteen countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and is a portfolio company of Frazier Healthcare Partners. The company combines a global panel of healthcare professionals and patients with mobile-first quant and qual research capabilities, plus AI-based capabilities to streamline and integrate the gathering and sharing of insights.

Last year the company added clinical research data veteran Gadi Lachman and former Kantar Health exec Jeremy Brody to its Board, and recently it launched a new suite called Survey Studio, allowing clients to rapidly design and script 'therapeutic-specific' healthcare surveys.

Konovo says the two new hires will accelerate the expansion of its AI-native intelligent technology platform to meet the needs of all geographies. Kulkarni (pictured above) brings more than twenty years of experience building pioneering health tech companies and scaling them globally, most recently as CEO and co-founder of Elda Health, a full-stack digital wellness platform; and as Head of Health Management at Aditya Birla Health Insurance. Earlier she held executive leadership roles at Nua, a personal care product manufacturer; Inksedge, an events and communications company; and Komli Media, India's leading digital marketing platform. In her new role she will lead Konovo's India Innovation Hub, including strategy, P&L, growth delivery, talent and culture, and work to maximize the role that India plays in Konovo's success.

Halliday (pictured below) also brings more than two decades of experience to bear on his new role, from life sciences roles on both the client and agency sides. Most recently, he was Strategic Intelligence General Manager at pharmaceutical solutions group Norstella, leading development of and strategy for the Strategic Intelligence business unit. Earlier he was CCO and Head of Real-World Data (RWD) at Clarivate Life Sciences, and held various leadership positions in Strategic Analytics and Competitive Intelligence at pharma and diagnostics giant Roche. In his new CCO role he will work to strengthen Konovo's senior-level partnerships and expand relationships across the global MR ecosystem.

CEO Tal Rosenberg comments: 'Swathi and Tom are proven transformation agents whose deep life science technology expertise and relationships will help us introduce innovations to address longstanding market research industry challenges. With their strategic skills on our leadership team, Konovo can accelerate the expansion of our intelligent platform and help more healthcare and life science organizations worldwide to gain faster, more actionable insights that deliver value throughout their operations.'

The company is on the web at www.konovo.com .

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