Raja Krishnana

Raja Krishnan is a commercialization manager for the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), where his primary responsibilities include assessment, marketing and licensing of intellectual property focused on the life sciences area covering inventions from UK’s Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine.

His previous commercialization experience includes working as an intellectual property manager at the Illinois Institute of Technology OTC. Prior to that, Raja spent more than 15 years working in roles of increasing responsibility in product development for various pharmaceutical companies and led the development through the launch of multiple commercial products. During his time in the pharma industry, Raja was trained to be a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and gained a Regulatory and Quality Compliance Graduate Certification from Purdue University. In 2013 he achieved the RAPS Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC). Raja has also consulted and advised several startup companies, including coaching teams through business plan competitions. He is a graduate of Steve Blank’s Lean Launchpad Program for Life Sciences and serves as a judge in the UK’s Entrepreneurs Bootcamp. Raja received a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Cornell University, a Master of Science in pharmaceutics from Long Island University, a Master of Science in Law from Northwestern University, and most recently a Master of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.