viverma09@gmail.com

With over 20 years of experience, Vivek has been associated with science & technology sectors involving life sciences and healthcare for the last 15 years. He has also been involved with the IT and energy sectors. He joined the Indian and Asian edition of BioSpectrum—a business magazine on biotechnology— in its founding year, 2005 as business head.

Concurrently, in 2009 he was part of the team that launched the India version of MIT Technology Review, the magazine on innovation published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has expertise in C-suite client relationship management; media sales (print & online); generating sponsorship, tie-ups and partnership for national and international conferences & events and mapping new markets.

He took an entrepreneurship leap in May 2012 and co-founded a bimonthly magazine LifeScience India, an unbiased voice of Indian life science and healthcare sector in association with the Confederation of Indian Industry. He also worked as media and branding consultant with the Mayar Group’s Keystone Business Park, an SEZ for life sciences, and as marketing consultant with MacMillan Scientific Communications, a division of Nature Publishing Group.

His expertise and experience include identifying new markets and products, developing marketing strategies, creating new business models, facilitating and publishing content, media sales, brand management, preparing impact analysis reports and managed advocacy and thought leadership platforms.

editorvivifymedia@gmail.com

Dipesh worked as a reporter with Press Trust of India in New Delhi in the late 1990s covering the science & technology and health beats. As a freelance science writer, he has contributed to United News of India, Indo-Asian News Service and BBC Hindi Online. He worked with the US Embassy in New Delhi for more than 15 years, first as a Copy Editor with SPAN, the magazine published by the embassy’s Public Affairs Section, and then as a Media Specialist, analyzing South Asian affairs.

biosciencecounsel@gmail.com

With over 25 years of experience in the Life Sciences domain, initially as a researcher & academician and later as a science communicator, Rolly has been closely associated with the progress of the Biosciences sector in general and the biotechnology arena in particular. She has a Masters degree in microbiology from GB Pant University, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. She started her career in life science education as a lecturer in microbiology and biotechnology in Bengaluru, after which she forayed into science communication and has been associated with it for more than two decades.

Tracking the pulse of the fledgling life sciences industry since its nascent years has offered her the unique opportunity to develop a strong network with industry leaders, academicians and policy makers in the bio sciences domain.

She started her writing career by working with a life sciences educational magazine Bioinformatics as its subject specialist. She has worked in various capacities: Consulting Editor at Life Science India, a S&T magazine; Assistant & Content Editor with BioSpectrum, a B2B biotechnology magazine. At Vivify Media she spearheaded two books, Biotech Career Ready Reckoner and Life Science Avenues and Opportunities. Both the books are of specific interest to the life sciences student community and were also endorsed by the Indian government’s Department of Biotechnology.