Robert Ovadia

Drug Product & Combination Product Leader | Connecting Technical Development to Product & Lifecycle Strategy

San Francisco, California, United States

About

I lead drug product and combination product development at Gilead. But the work I care most about happens where technical development meets the business: deciding how and when a product should launch, what container and device give it the best shot commercially, and how to sequence a lifecycle from vial to prefilled syringe to auto-injector. My career started at Genentech, where I was selected into the Process Development Rotational Program and spent eight years learning drug product development. That foundation shaped how I think: technically rigorous, but always tied back to the patient. At Gilead, I helped architect the company's shift beyond solid oral products into parenterals. I've guided flagship assets to the right launch strategy. What drives me is simple: getting the right product to patients in the right form, at the right time. Increasingly, that has pulled me toward product strategy, connecting the technical decisions I know deeply to the commercial outcomes that determine whether a medicine reaches the people who need it. That intersection is where I do my best work, and where I'm focused on growing.

Experience

  • Director, Head of Process Technologies and Development at Gilead Sciences
    2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

    Previously held positions Associate Director: Mar 2023 - Sep 2024 Sr Manager: Oct 2021 - Feb 2023 Manager: Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Genentech (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Engineer II, Drug Product Formulation/Process Engineering
      2017 - 2020 · 3 yrs

    • Research Associate, Drug Product Formulation/Process Engineering
      2014 - 2017 · 3 yrs

    • Process Development Rotational Associate
      2012 - 2014 · 2 yrs