E166 Dev Bapat, Head of Data Science and Product Management at Johnson & Johnson

Today's guest is  Dev Bapat, Head of Data Science and Product Management at Johnson & Johnson in New Jersey. Johnson & Johnson is the largest and most broadly-based healthcare company in the world who have been producing life-changing breakthroughs every day, and have been for the last 130 years. The combination of new technologies and expertise enables amazing things to happen, including medical devices such as 3-D printing artificial joints personalized for each patient and applying AI in pharmaceuticals to discover lifesaving drugs.

Dev has driven profitable growth by developing and successfully deploying digital solutions leveraging ML/optimization across the enterprise for over 20 years across key areas in digital surgery, health economics and outcomes, pricing and marketing. He built and deployed digital solutions at Johnson & Johnson to achieve top-line growth and improve patient safety in the areas around marketing, segmentation, pricing, market mix optimization, surgical effectiveness, health economics and sales operations.

In the episode, Dev will discuss:

How his role has evolved with Johnson & Johnson,

Leveraging data across different functions within the organization,

Building the data science practice for medical devices,

What’s kept him engaged in the role,

Balancing his duties between data science and product management,

Exciting projects they have worked on recently,

and Skillsets they looking for when growing the team