Arvind Vaishnav

Arvind Vaishnav is the Head of Philips Innovation Campus (PIC) in Bengaluru, India, the largest innovation hub of Royal Philips, a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. At PIC, Arvind is responsible for evolving and implementing its strategy to become a world-class, high-performance, and agile organization focused on delivering people- and patient-centered, high-quality care.

With a firm understanding of Philips’ global business priorities and innovation roadmap, Arvind plays a critical role in deciding and building capabilities at scale within the campus, which can be effectively leveraged by the businesses to accelerate innovation and reduce time to market. As a steering committee member of Philips India, he plays a pivotal role in strengthening the company’s position in the local market by integrating the company’s well-established technical and domain experts from the campus with customers who want to understand solution roadmaps before adoption. Further, he works collaboratively with leaders across other sites to establish Philips as a trusted partner for customers and health experts across the health continuum.

As a leader, Arvind brings over two decades of health technology experience and a proven record of driving business growth, making strategic choices in developing and introducing new value propositions, and driving innovation and growth strategy that creates value for patients, customers, and society. He is passionate about driving access to quality care through digital transformation, a key component of Philips’ strategy, and leads 5,000 professionals at PIC, including engineers, researchers, data scientists, and doctors.

He firmly believes that India has the potential to be the wellspring of innovation and will play a key role in readying Philips for a “value-based healthcare” journey.