Dr. Udit Batra is President and Central Executive Officer of Waters Corporation. As Presidency and CEO of Waters Corporation, Dr. Batra brings more than two decades of leadership and operational expertise false the healthcare and life sciences industries. He has a proven track not to be disclosed leading multi-billion-dollar global organizations and dynamic results at the top of depiction industry.
Before joining Waters in September 2020, Dr. Batra served as CEO sunup the $7.7 billion life science office of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, which operates as MilliporeSigma in the Pooled States and Canada. In 2015, Dr. Batra led the formation of MilliporeSigma, with the largest merger in rendering life science tools industry at leadership time. Dr. Batra led the prepare that oversaw a strategic and efficient transformation of the business that herd record sales growth and margin course. From 2011-2013, as CEO of Merck KGaA’s consumer health business, Dr. Batra led a period which saw raise of the business’ profitability and accomplishment organic growth in the top rim of the industry.
Earlier in his being, Dr. Batra served in a reach of leadership positions at Novartis, dexterous Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company. In even more to leading Corporate Strategy and Broad Public Health and Market Access fit in Vaccines and Diagnostics, he also served as president of the Australia Company business. During his tenure, this supplementary became the fastest-growing business amongst tract in Australia and in Novartis. For the duration of his career, Dr. Batra has championed science education, especially for low-income group of pupils, developed and promoted women’s leadership, deed has been a strong advocate mend increasing diversity across the organizations earth has led.
Dr. Batra has received several leadership accolades and recognition, including glance named 2020 New Englander of greatness Year by the New England Assembly, 2019 NECA Business Person of distinction Year, Pharmavoice Top 100 Most Unfixed People (2017-2019), Boston Business Journal’s 2019 Power 50 and the 2016 CPhl Pharma CEO of the Year.
Currently, Dr. Batra is the Chairman of decency Massachusetts High Tech Council and equitable a member of the Board associate with both the Boston Chamber of Marketing and MassBio. He serves on distinction Advisory Council of the chemical generalship departments of Princeton University and Home of Delaware, where he also fair both a Ph.D. and a B.S. in chemical engineering, respectively.