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Brought to the US from Nigeria to escape the violence and corruption that the country faced at the time. Developed an early love of software, going from engineering degrees at Cornell and Stanford to stints as a developer, start-up founder, and executive at Xoom, a payments company serving the developing world. While each of these experiences imparted knowledge, it was family's journey ...
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Shyam Sankar When I think of disrupting markets, the first trend that jumps out is the shift from valuing inputs to valuing outcomes. As the world grows dramatically more asymmetric, the winner is no longer the one who spends the most, but the one who performs the best.
Author: Shyam Sankar is the President of Palantir Technologies, a company working to radically change how groups analyse information. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company currently offers Palantir Government and Palantir Finance, platforms for integrating, visualizing and analysing the world’s information.
Shyam Sankar may have some thoughts on that. He’s a director of Palantir Technologies, which, in its own words, offers “a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing and analysing the world’s information”. Customers include the US government – which also invested in it early on.
Dr. Shyam Bishen is a senior healthcare executive with over 25 years of global experience in healthcare public-private partnership, strategy development, M&A, and business development. He comes to the Forum from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle where he was a regional/deputy director for seven years and was responsible for partnering to harness advances in healthcare to save ...
Shyam S Bhartia, together with his brother Hari S Bhartia, is the Founder and Chairman of Jubilant Bhartia Group (www.jubilantbhartia.com) headquartered in New Delhi, India. The Jubilant Bhartia Group has a strong presence in diverse sectors like Pharmaceuticals, Contract Research and Development Services, Proprietary Novel Drugs, Life Science Ingredients, Agri Products, Performance Polymers ...
Shyam Bishen Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare; Member of the Executive Committee , World Economic Forum This global round-up brings you health stories from the past fortnight.
Shyam Bishen Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare; Member of the Executive Committee , World Economic Forum More than 1 billion people are now living with obesity, a new study finds, as global food systems and technology have led to changes in what and how much we eat.
In the space of a century, antibiotics have gone from ground-breaking discovery to losing their effectiveness as a result of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which could lead to 10 million deaths per year by 2050.