Abi Kulshreshtha, Ph.D.

Chief Business Officer

akulshreshtha@southernresearch.org

As a member of the Southern Research executive leadership team, Kulshreshtha oversees the organization’s commercialization and new business lines. Prior to joining Southern Research, Kulshreshtha worked at management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where he advised public sector, private sector and non-profit clients on topics ranging economic development, biotech research, and corporate finance. He earned a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford, where he studied non-thermalizing condensed matter systems on a Rhodes Scholarship.

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