Venkatraman "Bala" Balasubramanian, PhD, MBA, VB Insights, LLC

Bala heads VB Insights, an advisory firm for the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector. Bala brings over 36 years of experience. During his long tenure, he has been responsible for the introduction of Web, document management, global team collaboration, and regulatory information management applications to large pharma. Until recently, Bala was Head of the Healthcare and Life Sciences at Orion Innovation. As an entrepreneur and a thought leader, he has been involved in initiatives to transform regulatory affairs from a document-centric function to a data-driven function. Bala has been associated with DIA for more than 17 years, leading DIA RIM Reference Model workstream and DIA AI Consortium Regulatory Frameworks and Terminology workstream.