Team

The operators on the other side of this system.

We are a small team of operators, creators, and designers. We have sat on the CXO side of the table, and we have sat on the other side when the decision landed. That is the vantage we build from.

A rare combination: deep domain experience in life sciences, hands-on product and technology leadership, policy and strategic advisory at scale, and commercial performance architecture across geographies.

Creator

Manoj Kumar Mandelia

Creator — BioQuant IQ · Arena · Echo
IIT Kharagpur · McKinsey · Abbott · Board member, Switzerland & Europe

Fifteen-plus years at the intersection of science, strategy, and people — across 20+ countries and every level of the organisation. Biotechnology and biochemical engineering at IIT Kharagpur. Structural exposure to commercial transformation at McKinsey, followed by a decade inside Abbott across affiliate, regional, and global roles.

Has sat inside the executive team of a Fortune 500 healthcare company and alongside private equity, investment banks, and consulting firms stress-testing life-sciences assets. Since mid-2025, has supported over 100 advisory engagements across emerging and developed markets — from affiliate restructures to global transformations, from private-equity diligence to board-level decisions.

The observation that became BioQuant IQ: the gap between strategy and execution is almost never a knowledge problem. It is a decision problem. The very structures built to drive performance are the same structures that quietly filter out the signal.

  • 30+ immersive leadership Sprints designed and facilitated
  • 20+ countries, across every level of the organisation
  • 100+ advisory engagements since mid-2025
  • Fortune 500 executive-team seat — operator and advisor
The Core

The team that carries the engagement.

Head of Tech

Shobhit Singhal

Head of Tech — BioQuant IQ · Arena · Echo
ChakraHQ · PhonePe · InMobi · IIT Kharagpur

Product and engineering leadership over a decade. Director at ChakraHQ, operating B2B SaaS platforms for 1,000+ businesses and processing millions of requests daily. Earlier roles at PhonePe — launching and scaling consumer payment experiences in one of India’s largest fintech ecosystems — and at InMobi, where he worked on ad-tech infrastructure serving global brands.

Brings the discipline of operating at scale: quiet systems, instrumented decisions, and interfaces designed so leaders can see what is actually happening. Architect of the platform layer that makes Arena and Echo feel like instruments rather than software.

Associate

Pragya Mittal

Associate — BioQuant IQ · Arena · Echo
Abbott · ICICI · IIM Visakhapatnam

Commercial performance and data systems at the intersection of strategy and execution. Designed and operationalised performance systems for a 200+ field force across eight Gulf and Levant markets. Built the analytical backbone that translates field signal into leadership-grade decisions.

Earlier at ICICI, working on credit and risk systems. MBA from IIM Visakhapatnam. Fluent in the vocabulary of field teams and boardrooms — and in the distance between what each of them sees.

Associate

Mohit Mella

Associate — BioQuant IQ · Arena · Echo
INSEAD (Incoming) · Christ University · Gov. of Andhra Pradesh

Strategy, policy, and stakeholder engagement at scale. Co-developed Andhra Pradesh state tourism policy on an 8-member team reporting to the Special Chief Secretary (IAS) — youngest consultant in the room, senior enough to be asked to write the parts the cabinet would read.

INSEAD MBA incoming. Christ University undergraduate. The kind of operator who keeps the stakeholder map visible in situations where most people lose it.

Work with us

We work with leadership teams that want to see what compounds.

Arena engages at the system level. Echo engages at the individual level. We work where decisions are actually made — not after the quarter closes, but while it is still open.