Roshni Datta

2023 JUDGE’S PROFILE

Senior Director Marketing, Asia Pacific Japan and India

Varian, A Siemens Healthineers Company

Known as having an ‘innovative streak’, Roshni has always been a change agent in creating and delivering innovative products, communication, and commercial strategies in Marketing, Digital and Education. She has consistently and often exceptionally contributed to various organizations by combining her unique skills in having an extraordinary sense of strategy with her keen penchant for detail-oriented execution.

In her career over 20 years, spanning across the Asia Pacific Japan, India subcontinent, USA and other global markets she has worked with partners and collaborators within the healthcare industry to bring in sustainable and market-appropriate healthcare products for emerging markets within China, LATAM, ASEAN and India.

The most significant contributions that she made were in the areas of introducing new business models where none existed thereby helping create further employment and sustainable business models. In as early as 2003, during the introduction of mobile telephony in India, she set up a unique business model for further penetration of mobile telephony in the rural markets, thereby also generating entrepreneurship opportunities for small business owners. Later in 2011, she set up a pilot model by the manufacturing industry in radiology education and created programs to upskill a semi-skilled workforce based on which a new SBU was created by the organization with annual revenues more than US$50 million. With several business model innovation and product launches underway in the following years, Roshni’s latest efforts are directed towards adopting deeper marketing transformation rooted strongly in core strategy and digital technologies.