Pravin Kulkarni

Head - Global Quality Sustainability & Quality Culture, Sun Pharma

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Bio

Pravin Kulkarni is a senior pharmaceutical quality leader with more than two decades of experience shaping quality governance, microbiology, and compliance across complex sterile, oral solid, and biotech manufacturing networks. He currently leads global quality sustainability, training, and quality culture initiatives at Sun Pharma, following senior leadership roles as Associate Vice President and Head of Quality for sterile and OSD operations. His career reflects deep enterprise responsibility, having held Vice President and global quality leadership positions at Wockhardt, Biocon Biologics, and Emcure Pharmaceuticals, where he steered corporate quality systems, microbiology, and compliance across multi-site operations.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kulkarni built a strong foundation in corporate quality and technical training at Mylan Laboratories, followed by senior QA leadership roles at Micro Labs, before progressing into global and biotech quality leadership. Across these roles, he has led large cross-functional quality organizations, overseen global microbiology and risk management functions, and guided companies through sustained regulatory scrutiny. Known for aligning regulatory rigor with operational discipline, he brings a rare combination of microbiology depth, inspection leadership, and quality culture transformation, positioning quality not as a checkpoint but as a strategic enabler of long-term business resilience.

Education

Master's Degree , Microbiology

Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University (SRTMU), Nanded

Bachelor of Science , Microbiology

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad

Professional Background

Head - Global Quality Sustainability & Quality Culture , Sun Pharma

(April 2023 - Present)

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