Lavanya Anandan
Head of Partnerships & External Innovation, Merck KGaA
Lavanya is the Head of Partnerships & External innovation, within the Strategy & Transformation group at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a global life science and pharmaceutical company. Based at the company’s Innovation Hub in the Bay Area, she is leading the exploration of how these parallel industries can accelerate clean meat development.
Lavanya has held diverse roles in sales, marketing and strategy within the biotech industry. She has a PhD in Molecular & Cellular Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
