Santosh Kookal

Med Tech Executive

Santosh Kookal is a seasoned med tech executive with a track record of leading innovative product teams at multiple Fortune 500 companies. He is currently global head of product management for clinical informatics at Beckman Coulter Inc. (a Danaher company) based in Brea, California. Prior to this role Santosh held positions of increasing responsibility in product management, product marketing, strategy, and business development at Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, and Elsevier. Santosh started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company and holds Masters degrees in business, psychology, and mathematics from The Wharton School, Wesleyan University, and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Santosh lives in Pasadena, California with his wife and two children and enjoys writing about himself in third-person.