Anshul Thakral joined PPD in July 2016 as senior vice president of PPD’s biotech partnership segment with more than 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, as a general manager, management consultant and entrepreneur.  

Before joining PPD, Anshul ran the global life sciences business unit at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he created a customer business model to serve the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Prior to GLG, Anshul worked at McKinsey & Company, where he was an associate principal in the healthcare practice, counseling senior management and CEOs of global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on critical topics including growth, strategy, R&D, business development, go-to-market approach and commercial models.
 
He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Anshul is also a co-founder and board member of the Newark Mentoring Movement.