Prof. Mukund “Mike” Yelvigi has over 36 years of successful drug development and leadership experience in the pharmaceutical industry and academia. His extensive leadership experience includes pharmaceutical formulation, process development/scale-up, process validation, continuous manufacturing and QbD/PAT. Currently Mike is a Managing Partner at Center for Pharmaceutical Integration LLC, New Jersey which provides strategic consultation service to the industry in the area of IND/NDA filings and Technology Integration & Transfers with the primary focus mergers & acquisitions arena. He previously worked as Senior Director/Head of CMC Portfolio Management at Pfizer/Wyeth Inc. Prior to this, he was the Head of Process Development and clinical supply group at Hoffman-La Roche New Jersey. Mukund has also worked in USA at Parke Davis, G.D Searle, Organon Inc. and is an adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy in University of Mississippi.