Manish Nigam is a prominent business leader and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and nutraceutical industry. He has a strong track record of delivering consistent profitable growth and has built start-ups and turned-around floundering businesses. Nigam is experienced in people leadership, financial management, strategic planning, business alliances, change management, project management, corporate governance, strategic marketing, and branding.

Nigam has managed businesses involved in B2B, B2C, and institutional sales of branded, generic, formulations, ingredients (food and feed additives), and APIs to pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food and beverage, wellness, biotech, FMCG, poultry, aqua, dairy, companion animal, and veterinary companies. He is recognized as an executive with a combination of vision and result orientation and has a strong focus on new opportunities, innovation in business models, partnership opportunities, and continuous improvement in processes and customer satisfaction levels.

Nigam studied at the esteemed Birla Institute of Technology where he received his B. Pharm degree. He also completed a Management Development Programme, Business Administration and Management, General, at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a General Management Program at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Nigam also studied an MBA in Marketing at Indira Gandhi National Open University.

Nigam has worked in several organizations, including Dalmia HealthCare, Scientific Brain Nutraceuticals Pvt Ltd, Zenfold Ventures, Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd, Piramal Enterprises Limited, AstraZeneca, SUN PHARMA, and Eli Lilly Ranbaxy Ltd. In his previous roles, Nigam has held several leadership positions and has been involved in managing sales, marketing, global business development, and heading strategic business units.