Vijesh Unnikrishnan
Partner, ZS Digital Connected Health Practice
Vijesh is a Partner at ZS, a global healthcare consulting firm with over 15000 employees, and leads ZS's Digital Connected Health Practice. He has 20+ years of industry and consulting experience in Fortune 500, mid and small cap companies. Vijesh is passionate about the confluence of healthcare and technology and the possibilities therein to solve disparities in access, quality and cost of healthcare globally
Vijesh’s professional experience spans across the functional value chain of pharma/medtech, from product development to commercial. At ZS, he has focused on digital health with an emphasis on product strategy, commercialization and agile launch management. Vijesh has also worked with consumer/medical wearables, healthtech and life sciences companies with their digital health opportunity assessment, commercial strategy and operating model issues. Vijesh also leads partnerships with leading digital health congresses such as RockHealth and venture backed healthtech companies. Vijesh also co-leads ZS’s remote and virtual health expertise center.
Prior to his consulting career, Vijesh worked at Boston Scientific, a Top 10 Medtech company, in various leadership positions in product development, operations, and commercial strategy.
Vijesh holds an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from North Dakota State University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Bharathiar University, India. He is a US Patent holder and has won technology grants for his work in healthcare innovation.
