Dr Shirish Belapure is Post graduate degree in Pharmacy alongwith Diploma in Business Management &. Certification in general management from IIM Ahmedabad.

 He has total experience of 42 years in managing pharmaceutical  manufacturing.

Curently, he is supporting the activities of Quality Forum of Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance as Senior Technical Advisor

Earlier, he was Managing Director – Zydus Hospira Oncology P.Ltd., (ZHOPL) - A joint venture company of Zydus & Pfizer for Manufacturing and distributing sterile oncological injectables. This company exports Oncology injectables to 61 countries including USA, Japan & Europe with highest regulatory compliance and quality standards.(August 2016 till December2019

Prior to this job he was responsible for all the global manufacturing functions of Zydus Cadila from February’2001 till July’2016 as President Global Manufacturing. He was also a member of Executive Committee of Zydus.

He had several initiatives in globalizing & harmonizing the manufacturing of Zydus Formulations.

His Achievement includes optimizing the operational costs with Lean ways and structured programme across all units of Zydus under the name of ‘SLIM’ Strategic Lean Integrated Manufacturing.

He was Instrumental in bringing new technologies like MDI’s/DPI’s/Transdermal Patches/Lyophilization.

He was also instrumental in bringing up the new modern plants at Baddi, Sikkim, SEZ and upgrading of the existing plants at Moraiya ,Goa, Nikhho Brazil & Nesher at USA.

He Conceptualized new design of SEZ –additional capacity for unicellular flows for superior material and manpower movement and avoidance of cross contamination.

Led Zydus Manufacturing on the path of automation to reduce human interventions in the processes, EBMR to make Zydus manufacturing fully compliant.

He closely worked with ‘Quality’ to bring international regulatory approvals to Zydus formulation units from USFDA, MHRA, ANVISA, PMDA and others.

His previous experience includes working in reputed companies FDC, Cipla, Cynamid and Sun Pharma in various capacities and departments.

He is currently on the governing board of Parenteral Drug Association (PDA-India) and active member of other professional bodies like ISPE, IPA(Quality forum) as well Indian Pharmaceutical Association.