Sundeep Karnik
Background and experience
Sundeep is a principal and leader in ZS’s medical products industry practice area, where he focuses on marketing and strategy. He has served in senior-level line and function leadership roles.
Sundeep is a principal and leader in ZS’s medical products industry practice area, where he focuses on marketing and strategy. He has served in senior-level line and function leadership roles. He has managed P&L and led global product development and marketing and strategy organizations at Fortune 500 companies. He has also taken startups from angel funding through to exit. Sundeep’s areas of interest include growth strategy, M&A, product and business model innovation, transformation and change management.
Following his medical and postgraduate training, Sundeep began his professional career at McKinsey, where he served clients across pharma, medtech, payers and providers. He joined Medtronic in roles ranging from global strategy and product development to marketing and general management across the company’s cardiovascular and diabetes business units. Post-Medtronic, he entered the startup world and steered two successful ventures as CEO. He returned to the consulting world as an advisor/EIR before joining ZS.
Education
M.S. in molecular physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S. in rehabilitation medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign