{"id":7808,"date":"2024-02-07T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakuten-med.com\/us\/?post_type=leadership&#038;p=7808"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T02:13:08","slug":"abhijit-bhatia","status":"publish","type":"leadership","link":"https:\/\/rakuten-med.com\/us\/leadership\/abhijit-bhatia","title":{"rendered":"Abhijit Bhatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-7808\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-7808-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div style=\"padding: 25px 25px 25px 25px;\" class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-7808-0\" ><div id=\"pgc-7808-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-7808-0-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><div class=\"leadership-member\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"profile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/rakuten-med.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/02\/ABHIJIT-BHATIA105fx.jpg\" alt=\"Abhijit Bhatia Profile Photo\" \/>\n<h3 class=\"name\">Abhijit Bhatia<\/h3>\n<p class=\"title\"><strong>Chief Operating Officer (COO)<\/strong><br>\nChairman &amp; Managing Director, Medlight SA<br>\nChairman &amp; Managing Director, Rakuten Medical Private Limited<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>\n.leadership-member {\n\tdisplay: grid;\n}\n.leadership-member h3 {\n\tdisplay: inline-block;\n\twidth: calc(100% - 15px);\n\tcolor: #bf0000;\n\tline-height: 1.4em;\n\ttransform: translateX(15px) translateY(-25px);\n\tpadding: 10px 10px 4px;\n\tbackground-color: #fff;\n}\n.leadership-member p.title {\n\twidth: calc(100% - 15px);\n\tpadding: 0 10px 10px;\n\ttransform: translateX(15px) translateY(-25px);\n}\n\n.leadership-member a,\n.leadership-member a:hover {\n\tcolor: #000;\n\ttext-decoration: none;\n}\n<\/style><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-7808-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-7808-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>As COO, Abhijit Bhatia oversees many key functions including Finance, Global Corporate &amp; Business Development, Corporate Strategy, Investor Relations, IT, and New Markets \u2013 all of which contribute to the strategic direction &amp; execution and implementation of the company strategy. As the lead for Global Corporate &amp; Business Development, Abhijit has led partnership deals with large and mid-stage pharma and academia - as well as merger &amp; acquisitions - globally. Additionally, he has played an instrumental role in fund raising of over $600 Million for Rakuten Medical.<\/p>\n<p>Abhijit has over 21 years Bio-Pharma experience and has previously held research, development, and management positions at Celgene (acquired by BMS), Abraxis Biosciences (acquired by Celgene) and Amgen Inc., the Saban Research Institute, Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles, and Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. Abhijit received his MBA from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)-Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, as well as an MS in Chemical Engineering from Cleveland State University\/Cleveland Clinic Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-7808","1":"leadership","2":"type-leadership","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abhijit Bhatia - Rakuten Medical - To conquer cancer.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rakuten-med.com\/us\/leadership\/abhijit-bhatia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abhijit Bhatia - Rakuten Medical - To conquer cancer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As COO, Abhijit Bhatia oversees many key functions including Finance, Global Corporate &amp; Business Development, Corporate Strategy, Investor Relations, IT, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rakuten-med.com\/us\/leadership\/abhijit-bhatia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rakuten Medical - To conquer cancer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-25T02:13:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rakuten-med.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/02\/RakutenMedical_KV.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/leadership\\\/abhijit-bhatia\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/leadership\\\/abhijit-bhatia\\\/\",\"name\":\"Abhijit Bhatia - Rakuten Medical - To conquer cancer.\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-07T23:44:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-25T02:13:08+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/leadership\\\/abhijit-bhatia\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/leadership\\\/abhijit-bhatia\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/leadership\\\/abhijit-bhatia\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Abhijit Bhatia\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rakuten-med.com\\\/us\\\/\",\"name\":\"Rakuten Medical - To conquer cancer.\",\"description\":\"Rakuten Medical, Inc. is a global biotechnology company developing precision, cell-targeting investigational therapies on its Alluminox\u2122TM technology platform. 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