Rajit Kamal
Rajit Kamal
MedTech Commercial Executive
Rajit has deep MedTech Commercial leadership experience with a proven track record of leading growth, turning around businesses, driving innovation/digital transformation and creating high performing teams. Rajit is known for his people/leadership skills, strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and collaboration skills. Over his tenure with J&J, he has held roles of increasing responsibilities culminating as WW President of ~$1B Sports and Shoulder Reconstruction business.
In this role, Rajit was the global leader of Johnson & Johnson’s $1B diversified Sports Medicine and Shoulder Reconstruction business, providing end-to-end leadership from strategy development, portfolio management to commercial execution and had full P&L responsibility. He led a cross functional leadership team across Marketing, R&D, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Clinical and Regions (US, EMEA, ASPAC, LATAM) to deliver global platform growth and performance. He was also member of the DePuy Synthes Leadership Team (Management board of the ~$9B Orthopedic business of J&J).
In his previous role as Vice President Asia Pacific, Rajit lead the $1.5 B Orthopedic business (Digital Surgery, Trauma, Spine, Joint Reconstruction, Sports Medicine) in Asia Pacific with focus on China, Japan, and Australia. Before that, Rajit was Vice President and Global Franchise leader for $1.5B knee reconstruction business for J&J and was responsible for global sales, P&L, global strategy, portfolio, and new product development. Prior to that he was the Senior Director for Strategy and Commercial Initiatives for US DPS, where he led the development of US DPS strategic roadmap and execution of US DPS transformation initiatives. Before that, Rajit led the creation of Business Insights center of excellence for DePuy Synthes Companies and also led strategic projects for the Global Orthopedic Franchise. Before moving into this position, Rajit led the commercial strategy and pricing function for the $3B joint reconstruction business. Rajit was also part of the Knee marketing team where he led the commercial aspects of the ATTUNE® launch – including global deployment in 14 markets, Pricing & Sales Training. Prior to this role, Rajit was with Mitek Sports Medicine business in marketing roles for Early Intervention/OrthoVisc and Access & Advanced Energy Platforms.
Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Rajit worked as a Strategy Consultant for the Boston Consulting Group & Innosight (customer insights & innovation consulting firm). In his consulting career, Rajit specialized in health care and advised senior management of Fortune 500 companies on Go to market strategies, cost benchmarking, product & business model innovation and organizational restructuring. Rajit started his career with Procter & Gamble in manufacturing, supply chain and demand planning.
He holds B.S. in Chemical Engineering with distinction from Indian Institute of Technology, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. in technology management from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.