Dr. Padmakumar (Kumar) Kaimal serves as Vice President, Technology Alliance & Business Development of Suven Life Sciences, New Jersey since 2003. Prior to joining Suven he was Director of Research and Development at Synthon Chiragenics from 1999 to 2003.

Kumar has extensive career experiences in drug discovery, development and CRO. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the field of organic chemistry from IIT Bombay. Afterwards he completed his Post Doc chemistry program in Brown University.