Balaji Bondili

Balaji Bondili has over 20+ years advising global life sciences companies on corporate strategy, market entry and digital health. He has led a digital-health-focused corporate venture capital firm for a top 5 pharmaceutical company, and guided investment in 7 series B/series C startups in adjacent markets. At Deloitte, Balaji built and scaled Deloitte Pixel, an open talent and crowdsourcing digital platform. Most recently, Balaji built a gen-AI driven process to identify 20+ new venture opportunities across multiple industries. He is known for building non-traditional, disruptive businesses that help companies keep ahead of market trends. He is a lecturer to executives and MBA students at top business schools, and his venture-building inside corporations has been recognized in a series of Harvard Business School case studies.

Balaji holds an MBA from the University of Hyderabad and is on the national board of Rails to Trails Conservancy to build active
mobility spaces across the world.