"Narendra Kumar is committed in bringing a healthier tomorrow across the world. And, he is transforming discovery into care with his venture, Kemio Solutions."
A famous Football Coach, Vince Lombardi, said, "Winners never quit, and quitters never win." Narendra Kumar, a renowned Pharmaceutical Research and Development Professional, is making this saying a reality.
He has established a reputation beyond his profession by conceptualizing unique ideas and delivering excellent services. He always goes the extra mile to meet the needs of global healthcare.
Narendra is currently the founder and CEO at Kemio Solutions, offering concierge services for drug discovery, development, and manufacturing processes.
As the CEO, Narendra is leading a revolution in the health industry while promoting values that matter.
Narendra always had a dream of bringing the best solutions for the global healthcare industry from Indian talent. Therefore with his venture Kemio Solutions, he is converting his dreams into reality guided by the principles of sustainability and the empowerment of people.
The unique path that led Narendra to initiate Kemio Solutions and the driving force behind the company's success was Narendra's passion to accomplish something more than enough and his out-of-box idea.
He has extensive experience of over 18 years in business development, sales &marketing, business strategy, strategic sourcing, R&D, manufacturing operations across multiple geographies, strategic planning, mergers & acquisitions, lean manufacturing, and research & development.
In academics, Narendra holds a Bachelor's degree from Bangalore University and PGDMS from SDM Institute for Management Development.
Founded on 18 May 2015, Kemio Solutions is an integrated CRAMS (Custom Research and manufacturing Services) provider offering single-point access to discovery services, CPRD (Chemical Process Research and development), drug production development, regulatory support services and also pharmaceutical technologies to global pharma and biotech companies.
Kemio Solutions expedites the advancement of drug development initiatives for its partners and clients through its array of technologies, proficiency, and adeptness in executing pre-clinical programs, managing the chemistry, manufacturing, and control (CMC) aspects of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and drug products. Additionally, the company offers comprehensive registration solutions for New Chemical Entities (NCEs), 505b2, and orphan drugs.
Kemio Solutions' state-of-the-art facility is located in Bangalore, a major pharmaceutical hub in India. Here, the company has also set up a lab. The developmental offerings come to utilize resources, talent, and infrastructure in Bangalore and Hyderabad.
"Prior to starting Kemio, I had spent close to 17 years in the industry, a majority of which was in the Drug Discovery and Development space. I had seen an element of talent pool and capabilities across the East and the West. It was my dream to get this integrated to provide the best outcomes at an affordable cost of innovation, and at a rapid pace to address the challenges that diseases were posing. Kemio is a fructification of the dream"
,Narendra shares.
Kemio enjoys expertise across three different sectors:
Drug Discovery
Drug Development
Regulatory Support
Kemio Solutions is a start-up with a mission to accelerate drug development for Pharma and Biotech companies across the world. Here, there are amazing points that make this company stand out in the market:
Offers partners and client technologies, expertise, and abilities to execute pre-clinical programs.
Accelerates drug discovery, development, and manufacturing processes for global Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to fight against diseases.
Modern lab equipment to allow rapid scale-up of up to 2kg within the facility – ensuring the window between discovery and development is effectively bridged.
"We faced the issues of a regular start-up – funding, people, and the regular barriers of the approval processes at different levels,"
asserts Narendra.
"We made mistakes and learned from them and then moved on. We have a couple of great mentors who have coached and guided us through the process. Their contribution needs to be acknowledged,"
he adds.
Being a young start-up, Kemio Solutions understands the challenges of the industry and accordingly comes up with multiple flexible models. Including a fee-for-service model, a shared cost model, a success-based model, and a milestone-based model among others.
The company's major clients include biotech and pharma in USA/ Western Europe / Japan and a few academic research institutes.
Alert, alive, and active all the time.
Planning and executing the same on time.
Entrepreneurs are in an expedition mode to scale "Mount (Ne)Everest"
An effective and efficient team, both at home and office is the major factor.
The start-up took about six months to conceive and actualize. During his long years of association with the Pharmaceutical and drug Discovery Industry. Narendra came across a significant level of bureaucracy and a high level of redundancy in the process of drug discovery and development.
His interactions with the cream of scientific talent across the world gave him a sense of the challenges they faced in the process.
These conversations made Narendra challenge his thought process and come up with effective and efficient systems to enable the team to deal with the uncertainties associated with the process in a much more enabled manner.
A few of Narendra's senior colleagues in the industry, who are incidentally based both in the US and India, joined him in this endeavour to get Kemio off the ground and progress it further.
"My gurus- HH Swami Chinmayananda, HH Swami Dayanand Saraswati, and HH Swami Brahmananda, and my parents are my inspirations," verifies Narendra.
Exciting and Challenging.
Narendra Kumar sees Kemio as a vibrant Drug Discovery and development Company that has delivered successful outcomes for the well-being of mankind in a wide range of disease areas.
The Kemio mandates to work for a healthier tomorrow – they see themselves delivering this outcome in a significant and remarkable manner.
Besides, the team is focused on making Kemio Solutions a preferred drug development and chemical services provider to global pharmaceutical & Biotech Industries.
Kemio since its inception has delivered a clinical candidate and two preclinical candidates for its customers within 4 years of starting operations. That is a significant achievement for any start-up to have accomplished in the first few years of operations.
"Be focussed! And, don't leave the back door open for any reason."
