PARI DATTA
Senior Innovation Consultant, Cambridge Design Partnership
Pari is a senior innovation professional, who specialises in identifying, building and validating new opportunities for major global companies and emerging start-ups. He has 11 years of experience of leading innovation and strategy projects for many of the world’s largest medical device and pharmaceutical companies, with a focus on discovering opportunities through user, market and technology insights. He has worked within consulting and corporate environments, now for 8 of the top 20 medical device companies, with a focus on discovering and reacting to user, market and technology insights.
Pari has additionally led innovation and strategy programmes in multiple other industries, including FMCG, consumer health, drug delivery, surgical and critical care; specialising in life sciences and diagnostics. Through these wide-ranging experiences, he has created and used many different tools for innovation, to capture the lessons learned and to enable the efficient discovery of both innovative and robust new offerings in different markets.
By background, Pari has a BSc in Biochemistry and a PhD in Genetics, in which he concentrated on the commercialization of early-stage technologies.