Ashwin SivakumarFounder & Chief of ConceptsJugular Social Media
Ashwin blends his core background and experience in conceptualizing computational algorithms and applications with new marketing thought schools to translate thoughts and ideas for the real world. He has made his first foray outside Life-Sciences to realize his current goals and interests. His current interests are to build profitable mainstream business models which can positively influence the daily lives of the common man using social mediums. He believes that with the right kind of vision and concepts, successful business models will evolve where everyone including those at grass root level will benefit from Social Media before 2020. His startup Jugular Social Media recently won the startup of the year at the Headstart-Its AP annual events in 2010. He has been a BiovisionNxt-World Life Science forum fellow-Class of 2005, a nominee for MIT Tech Review Tech 35 and the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards in 2010. Most recently, he has been selected to participate in the class of 2011, Startup leadership program.He was most recently heading marketing & strategy at Ocimum Biosolutions and Gene Logic, cited as one of the fastest growing companies by INC magazine and Deloitte. During his stint with Ocimum-Gene Logic, The Genomics Pioneers Gateway was built and conceptualized, the largest genomics ecosystem on the web. Also during this stint, Ocimum embarked on the Ocimum 3.0 collaboration platform aimed at integrating service lines and community interaction.Back in the year 2000, He also built India’s first international Bioinformatics ecosystem by conceptualizing Inbios. He has worked and studied at internationally known organizations and universities like Leeds University UK, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Molecular Biology MBL USA, Viikki Biocenter at Helsinki, Finland.
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