Gayathri Badrinath
Combining deep clinical and commercial expertise, Gayathri has taken on a pioneering role.
She identifys ways to leverage digital solutions to serve women on a path to better heart health as the Founder & CEO of Devyn.
With experience in the pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics industries, she has a unique understanding of the barriers and opportunities to better health.
Prior to her entrepreneurial ventures, Gayathri spent more than twenty years in roles of increasing responsibility in global healthcare organizations. Most recently, she led marketing for Siemens Healthineers Services focused on developing innovative business models and digital health solutions to compete in a value-based care environment.
Gayathri spent more than eight years at Abbott in leadership roles in global marketing and public affairs focused on the company's innovative cardiac medical devices. Gayathri started her career in the pharmaceutical industry as a strategy consultant for Arthur D. Little followed by six years at CV Therapeutics where she played an integral role in building the company's first commercial organization. She serves on the Board of Directors at WomenHeart, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of women at risk and living with heart disease and as an Advisor to the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter which she founded in 2001.
Gayathri earned her BA in natural science and public health from The Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business. She is a former collegiate volleyball player, she is an avid fan of exercising, eating great food and drinking wine, all easy tasks in the San Francisco Bay Area where she resides with her husband and two sons.