About

Asmita Khanolkar is Senior Director, Pharmaceutical Services, at SMC, where her current responsibilities include a corporate leadership role supporting multiple sites in early technical engagement through commercialisation for medical devices, combination products and pharmaceutical services. Ms Khanolkar has held various engineering and management roles in new product development, manufacturing engineering, advanced quality planning, operations, supply chain and product lifecycle management.

With over two decades of manufacturing experience specialising in the medical device and pharmaceutical industry, she has managed various device projects from concept to commercial launch. Her product portfolio includes single-use, wearable and implantable devices, drug-device, device-biologic combination products for drug delivery, bio-therapeutics and pharmaceutical applications. She has a master’s degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester (MA, US).