Somasundaram Gopalakrishnan Senior Consultant, Merck

Somasundaram Gopalakrishnan (Som), is Senior Consultant for Asia Pacific in Merck Life Sciences under the Process Solutions division based in Singapore. He does consultation with customers in areas of Aseptic Processing, Quality Risk Management (QRM) and various other BioPharmaceutical applications area. Previously, Som was heading the Technology Management for Merck for South Asia & Oceania handling a team of Technology Managers who would work with customers in Product Adoption and training customers in best practices.

Som has worked in different functions within Merck and Millipore for the last 20 years in Tech Service, BioReliance Filter Validation Lab, Commercial role and Business Development areas. Outside of Merck, Som worked for QA/QC for Pharmaceutical company & taught students Microbiology

Som has Master’s degree in Food & Industrial Microbiology & Master‘s Degree in Business Management.