Mr. K. Vijayaraghavan

Vijay is a technology management professional with three decades of engagement in innovation translation to economic impact creation, intellectual assets management and innovation policy advisory. He combines his academic background in life sciences, strategic management, intellectual property and translational research to provide global corporations and public institutions vision and strategic direction to lead in their chosen spheres of engagement.

In his capacity as the Chairman and CEO of Sathguru Management Consultants, he supports private enterprises in staying on the edge of innovation led competitive advantage. With Sathguru’s presence in USA and emerging regions of Asia, Vijay has extensively engaged in long term advisory to innovation hubs, innovation ventures and large corporations in spearheading change through contemporary innovation and market delivery.

Academically Vijay is a faculty with Cornell University, leading innovation and intellectual property management program. Over the last two decades he has spearheaded academic technology transfer to markets and designed academic engagement in business translational hubs. He has been twice honoured with the Betterworld award by Association of University Technology Managers for globally spearheading innovation delivery. Vijay has strategically engaged with the Technology Commercialisation Forum of Singapore, Taiwan’s innovation hub and the Life Sciences innovation platform of Thailand. He has been  on the Advisory Board of six global incubation centres that have graduated over 100 ventures in USA and in Asia.