Headquartered in Chennai, India, Accord Pharma is a fast-growing generic pharmaceutical company with a major focus on development and manufacture of IP led niche finished dosage formulations and Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
Accord Pharma is involved involved in Research & Development, Manufacturing and Supply of pharmaceuticals across different geographies.
Our Vision is to be recognized as a leading specialty pharmaceutical company at the forefront of innovation for patients in current challenging and competitive pharmaceutical environment, our business is driven by a strong commitment to quality & compliance and to operating with the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
We are committed to restoring health and transforming the lives of patients through development of life saving pharmaceutical products.
Our partnership philosophy with our customers has helped deliver incremental value to both our company and partners.
Accord Pharma is part of Accord Group, an unprecedented combination of expertise, is one among the top notch private sector business, in India.
From a cogent Stainless Steel business in 1977, Accord has grown into a well-diversified tree of business branching in the following sectors Healthcare, Hospitality, Information Technology, Realty, Power Generation, Education, Liquor and Brewery, Print and Visual Media, Pharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals. Today, Accord Group is recognized as one of the biggest and most respected business conglomerates of South India.
HOSPITALITY
Accord Groups’ chain of opulent hotels has become tantamount to the Indian hospitality. The hotels are located in country’s most spectacular cities, namely, Chennai, Puducherry and Ooty, under the brand of The Accord Metropolitan. Group has pipelined 8 more hotels in Tier-II cities and resort locations in India.
DISTELLERIES & BREWERIES
Accord Group is one of the well-established Liquor manufacturers in South India. We hold 2 manufacturing units in Goa and Chennai that stand synonym of world-class quality alcoholic beverage. The units have a manufacturing capacity of 1 million cases per month, which are marketed across the Indian States and exported to South East Asia, West Asia, Africa and other countries. We also import Scotch and Cognac to sell across the Indian subcontinent and to export to other countries.)
MEDICAL & HEALTHCARE
The health care units of Accord Group are into acute care, general medical/surgical hospitals
Accord Groups hospitals are one of the premium medical facilities with more than 5000-bed capacity, including 360 beds that are ultra modern multi-specialty units with a state-of-the-art facility, equipment and health care delivery system. The group operates primary health care units in various locations:
• Sri Lakshmi Narayana, Pondicherry
• Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Chennai
• Sree Balaji Dental College, Chennai
• Sri Lakshmi Ammaal College, Chennai
• Rela Institute & Medical center, Chennai
EDUCATION
Accord Group is one among pioneers’ in the education sector, with multi-disciplinary institutions, across the state. Bharath University is well-known for its quality of education, global infrastructure, research, technology, innovation and practice-driven teaching methodologies. Our university has tied up with quite a few American Universities for higher education, transfer of student credits and much more. With more than 30,000 students, two Universities, eight Engineering Colleges, two colleges in the field of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Physiotherapy, a Management Institute & an Arts and Science colleges, respectively, we are one of the most recognized educational institution in Tamil Nadu
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Collectively bringing their experience to managing pharmaceutical operations at Accord Pharma is a dynamic team of professionals with healthcare experience across segments and geographies.
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Manish Choube
is the Global CEO. He has a Master’s Degree in Microbiology and received his MBA from Manipal Institute of Management. He brings over 25 years of pharmaceutical experience with wide international exposure in businesses operating under highly regulated environments like USA, EU, Australia and many other countries.
Prior to Accord Pharma, Manish has held senior global leadership positions in quality & regulatory function and played various techno-commercial roles in organizations including Tenshi, Dr. Reddy’s, Mylan, Strides, Sun Pharma and others.
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Shivaraj Kategeri
is the Chief Scientic Officer (CSO). He is M.Pharm, Ph.D having 23 years’ experience in Pharma Research & Development, scale up, and manufacturing of multiple pharmaceutical dosage forms comprising Liquid aqueous/ non-aqueous Injections, Suspension injections, Lyophilized Injections, PFS and Parenteral formulations in Infusion bags, Tablets, Hard gelatin capsules, Soft gelatin capsules
Shivaraj has also worked on several non-infringing formulations, PIV, Simple and complex Generics and also worked successfully on Oncology and Harmone formulations in addition to General formulations.
Prior to Accord Pharma, Shivaraj has successfully lead R&D & Technology Transfer functions in reputed Pharmaceutical Industries like Sun Pharma, Aurobindo, Strides, Pfizer (Capsugel), Amneal and others.
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Satessh Singh
is a Sr. VP-Marketing & Sales and a hard core front end pharma professional. He’s a Chemistry graduate and MBA in Marketing with 25 years experience and expertise in Domestic Marketing and Sales. He has handled many therapies including Oncology & Nephrology big team size and business volumes in various Indian and MNC pharma companies.
His core competency lies in new business launches, vertical launches, product launches and turning around of the business.
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Umesh Lathra
Umesh Luthra is EVP- Biorech and has more than 22 years of experience in the field Biotechnology. Under his leadership and guidance, several microbial process and number of biotech based therapeutics products and intermediates are developed.
His reserch papers on many primary and secondary metabolites, Immunosuppressants, Antifungal, Antibiotics, Steroids, Vitamin, Nutraceutical have also published in national and international peer reviewed journals.
Prior joining Accord Pharma, Umesh has worked with biotech industries such as Ipca, Gujrat Themis Biosyn, Krebs Biochemical, Kopran Drug Ltd., Max GB etc.