Priya Nayak

Priyashri (Priya) Nayak is Director of Alliance Management at NJ Bio and Vice-President of Business Development & Alliance Management at NJ Bio’s affiliate, Amar Chemistry Pvt. Ltd in India. Priya is an angel investor with Robin Hood Ventures and has supported investment in family-owned entrepreneurship companies and sports clubs. Priya has 23 years of broad experience in global consumer healthcare companies including Glaxo SmithKline, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, and Prestige Labs, as well as with a start-up company, The Chemistry Research Solution (acquired by Abzena). She has led technical teams that successfully developed and commercialized global products for brands such as Aleve PM®, Bayer® Aspirin®, Aspirin® plus C, Alka-Seltzer®, Benadryl®, Sudafed® Listerine®, Bengay®, Tums®, and Citrucel®, contributing to over a billion dollars in sales. Priya received her Ph.D. in Industrial Pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Sciences, Boston, and a Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University Department of Chemical Technology (now ICT), Mumbai.