Peetambar Kushwaha

• Initiate, oversee and manage assigned Commercial Development (CD) projects to deliver long-term objectives and interim milestones.
• Establish excellent relationships with project partners and other third parties to support the delivery of project and strategic objectives.
• Build market knowledge in assigned geography to provide insights and input into current projects, plus CD strategy development and implementation.
• Research, propose and/or evaluate new CD project opportunities and concepts for inclusion in GALVmed’s future portfolio of projects.
• Provide input into product development strategy to ensure target product profiles meet GALVmed’s strategic objectives.
• Represent and support GALVmed’s other departments in Asia as and when required.

January 2013

Nepalese

• Strategic Management course from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kashipur
• MSc in Microbiology & Immunology, Purdue University, US (Fulbright Scholarship)
• Diagnostic Technology, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
• Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry (B.V.Sc&A.H.), TU, Nepal

• Programme Manager, Heifer International Nepal (2008-2012): Using livestock for overall community development; women empowerment through participatory learning; facilitating training on livestock and poultry health and management as well as on social mobilization and overall project management in different parts of Nepal.
• Veterinary officer, Government of Nepal (1996-2005): Worked in national and regional level laboratories as a manager and as a laboratory worker to diagnose diseases in livestock and poultry; investigated livestock and poultry health problems to plan prevention and control as a regional epidemiologist; as a clinician and surgeon in veterinary hospital; and as planner for livestock and poultry development.

Travelling to new places and meeting new people, cricket and music, current political affairs, and working to bring tangible change in the lives of people.