Badal Bharat Shah
President & Founder, Neolytica (a QPharma company)
Bio
Badal Bharat Shah is an award-winning healthcare entrepreneur, data-science strategist, and product architect whose mission is to shorten the distance between scientific discovery and real-world patient impact. After earning an MBS in Drug Discovery & Development from Rutgers University, he spent a decade refining the craft of Key-Opinion-Leader mapping, claims-data mining, and launch analytics for top-20 biopharma brands. In 2020 he founded Neolytica, an AI-driven subsidiary of QPharma, and now serves as its President. Today Neolytica's cloud platforms Ti Expert™ 2.0, NotifyMe™, and Ti Risk profile eight-million global HCPs, stream real-time insights to medical-affairs teams, and power opioid-misuse surveillance used by manufacturers and SOM engines. The technology has supported 145+ drug launches, including a first-in-class COVID-19 therapy, accelerated 11 pivotal clinical trials by 25 percent, and uncovered care gaps across 28 rare-disease cohorts.
Badal has scaled Neolytica from five employees to a 70-person, HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant global workforce generating ≈US $20 million ARR. He also directs an industry forum that convenes 500+ life-science executives each quarter to share AI best practices. Previously, as Managing Director of QPharma's Titanium™ analytics suite, he expanded KOL services to 15 European countries and doubled revenue every two years.
Honored as Top 100 Healthcare Leader, Global Indian of the Year 2024, Global Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 and many more, Badal serves on the Industrial Advisory Board of Rutgers' Master of Business & Science program and advises multiple digital-health start-ups. Fluent in English, Hindi, and Gujarati, he blends cross-cultural insight with deep technical fluency Python, Neo4j graph analytics, AWS SageMaker to deliver scalable, ethics-driven AI solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.
Personal Quote:
“True leadership is building systems that empower others. My mission is to fuse science, ethical AI, and strategy to make breakthrough therapies inevitable, and deliver them a heartbeat sooner. - Badal Bharat Shah”