Ketaki Desai
Vice President

Ketaki Desai
Ontario Centres of Excellence
Vice President
Ketaki Desai, Ph.D. is the Vice President, Business Development at OCE. She recently served as the Director of Strategy for a $1 billion life sciences fund as part of the investment arm of UPMC, a $21 billion integrated global nonprofit health enterprise in Pennsylvania. She taught Innovation and Commercialization as an Adjunct Professor at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. Before joining UPMC, Ketaki was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Pittsburgh and also consulted with startups, small businesses and organizations like Innovation Works, a top national startup accelerator based in Pittsburgh. Prior to that, Ketaki was the Executive Director of the LindenPointe Development Corporation, a nonprofit which ran a startup incubator and a high-school entrepreneurship program. Ketaki has a Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences from Texas A&M University and a Master’s in Public Management from Carnegie Mellon University.