Medical Device R&D, Quality & Regulatory Systems

With 10+ years of professional experience in the United States and India, Ms. Akanksha Hande has worked with medical device organizations across product development, quality systems, design controls, and regulatory compliance. Her experience includes supporting complex medical device programs that require technical rigor, regulatory awareness, a patient-safety focus, and high-quality execution.

Having worked in fast-paced, highly regulated medical device environments, she brings practical expertise in transforming innovative concepts into compliant, manufacturable, and market-ready medical technologies. Her background combines hands-on engineering, quality systems development, risk management, and post-market problem solving to support companies across the product lifecycle.

With 9+ years of professional experience in the United States, Mr. Ganesh Vethekar has worked with medical device and engineering driven organizations across product development, manufacturing, and technical operations. His experience includes supporting complex projects that demand precision, scalability, compliance awareness, and high quality execution.

Having worked within the fast paced and quality focused US medical device industry, he brings a practical understanding of how to transform innovative concepts into reliable, manufacturable, and production ready solutions.

CEO & Entrepreneur | HealthTech & Drug-Device Innovation

Rohinton ("Ronnie") Toddywala, PhD, MBA, is a seasoned healthcare executive, entrepreneur, and innovation advisor with more than 35 years of leadership experience across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, inhalation therapeutics, medical devices, and drug-device combination products. He has led the development, regulatory advancement, scale-up, and commercialization of more than 30 healthcare products, including inhaled therapies, biologics, sterile injectables, transdermal and topical systems, women's health technologies, and complex delivery platforms.

Ronnie currently serves as Co-Founder and CEO of Targeron Therapeutics and Co-Founder and CEO of Socrates-GMP, Inc. Previously, he held senior leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson, including Vice President of R&D at GYNECARE and CEO of a J&J internal venture, and later co-founded InspiRx. An inventor on multiple issued patents, he advises companies on medical device development, regulatory strategy, CMC, quality systems, CDMO/CRO oversight, investor diligence, and product development execution.