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Tushar Shah

Tushar brings a unique Enterprise and Start-up experience to solve business and operational challenges, thanks to his understanding of technology, products, people, and operations.  His career is shaped by global experience, integrity, high-performance standards, a superior work ethic, a collaborative style, and a commitment to win.

 

Currently as the Chief Product Officer at Uniphore, which he joined in 2023.  He is the General Manager for Uniphore’s business, accountable for delivering on their Generative AI Products and Platform that support Global Enterprise Customers.  Since he joined, he has grown the customer base from 1200 to 1600.  He raised revenue by $150M, with a growth of 70% year over year. Product partnerships with NVDIA, Snowflake, AWS, MFST.

 

Serviced as the CEO of NationsBenefits Payments business in 2022.  He was responsible build a payments platform to deliver Medicare and Medicaid supplements to 10M customers, supporting $200M in payment integrations to retailers like Walmart, Kroeger, Albertson, CVS, Walgreens, local bodegas, and e-commerce channels

 

He was Senior Vice President at PayPal, which he joined in 2012. As Product and Engineering lead, Tushar managed credit, identity, risk, compliance, customer service, FX, machine learning, and AI platforms. Additionally, he supported the delivery of analytics, modeling, computation, big data, and platform services across PayPal, Venmo, Xoom, Honey, Braintree, and Hyperwallet platforms.

 

Tushar has played a key role in critical aspects of the separation between PayPal and eBay in 2015 and in the trebling of PayPal’s market cap since then. During his tenure he served 430M users and 35M merchants transact through the risk and compliance models, safe payment experiences, and modernized platforms his teams have engineered to move to a scalable and service architecture. His teams delivered revenue of $1.5B and cost reduction and avoidance of $500M.

 

He has led numerous PayPal change leadership and transformations that expanded innovation into the company culture. He led various regulatory and enterprise risk changes and was a member of PayPal’s Operating Group. He also served on the Board of Directors of PayPal 3PL business in Singapore, an entity that manages much of the company’s international business, corporate governance, and financial holdings.

 

Previously, Tushar spent ten years at Bank of America as a Technology Senior Executive for Consumer banking, E-Commerce, Sales and Services and software engineering. He was Key Product and Technology Leader supporting the bank’s major acquisitions (MBNA, USTrust, LaSalle Bank).

Gina Qin 秦津娜

Qin Jinna. Visiting Professor at Beijing Wuzi University, and serves as the Secretary-General and one of the initiators of the Supply Chain Branch under the China Vaccine Industry Association. Participated in the formulation of multiple industry standards such as Specifications for Vaccine Circulation and Handover, and led research on government projects including Construction of the Life Health Port in Daxing Airport Economic Zone. Currently, act as member of the Medical Logistics Standards Working Group under the National Technical Committee for Logistics Standardization, as well as a member of the Beijing Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Association with both practical and academic accumulations in the fields of life health industry planning and pharmaceutical cold chain logistics.

秦津娜，北京物资学院客座教授，中国疫苗行业协会供应链分会秘书长及发起人之一。长期致力于医药冷链与供应链标准建设，主持参与《疫苗流通交接规范》等多项行业标准制定，并牵头《大兴临空经济区生命健康口岸建设》等政府课题研究。现任全国物流标准化技术委员会医药物流标准工作组委员、北京出入境检验检疫协会委员，在生命健康产业规划与医药冷链物流领域具有深厚实践与学术积累。

Fiona Barry

Fiona Barry is Editor-in-Chief & Director of Outsourcing at GlobalData, where she leads the PharmSource division in gathering news, data and analysis about contract manufacturing. She has covered the pharma industry for more than a decade, as a journalist and analyst.