Vaibhav A. Narayan PhD, MBA, is currently Executive Vice President at the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative (DAC), where he leads a multi-stakeholder global effort committed to generating data and insights from diverse Alzheimer’s and brain health cohorts around the world. Prior to joining DAC, Dr. Narayan spent roughly 14 years at Johnson & Johnson (J&J), where he was Vice President of Data Sciences and Digital Health and a senior leader in the Neuroscience Therapeutic Area. Prior to J&J, he held various leadership roles in R&D at Eli Lilly & Co. and multiple biotech companies including Celera, where he participated in the Human Genome Project. Dr. Narayan also has a leadership role in the UK government’s Mental Health Goals program. During his career, in addition to running large internal programs within organizations, he has helped form and lead multiple multi-stakeholder innovation ecosystems and large-scale public-private consortia at the intersection of data science, digital health, and neuroscience. He has co-authored more than 100 scientific publications in genomics, digital health, data science, and neuroscience. Dr. Narayan obtained a PhD from Yale University in computational biology and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
