Chairman & CEO |  G.K.Raju, Ph.D. G.K. is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Light Pharma Inc. He is passionate about bringing medicine to people who need it and has made it his personal life's mission to transform the way medicine is made.

G.K. received his MS in Chemical Engineering Practice from the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering in 1989, his M.S. in Business Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1994 and his Ph.D. from the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering in 1998.

G.K. is Executive Director of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Initiative (PHARMI) at MIT. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University and Executive Director of the Consortium for The Advancement of Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals (CAMP).

He is a frequent invited speaker at PhRMA, ISPE, FDA and industry meetings and author of a number of publications and book chapters.