INTERVIEW: Ex-Advinus CEO’s Bittersweet Journey

Life appears to have come full circle for Advinus Therapeutics' co-founder and former CEO and managing director, Dr. Rashmi Barbhaiya, who recently moved back to the US from India. It has been a bitter-sweet journey with peaks and troughs, although the man himself would rather see any lows as "lessons learned" that come with the territory.

"It is with mixed feelings I have returned to US after relentless pursuit of 14 years. I do want to keep the reins of my destiny in my hand," declares Dr. Rashmi Barbhaiya, who began his industrial pharmaceutical career in 1980 with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in the US and is a co-founder and ex-CEO of India’s Advinus Therapeutics Pvt. Ltd.

In an interview with PharmAsia News’s sister publication Scrip, he also lamented the limited understanding of investors in India of...