Nitya Shetty joined Harvard Bioscience in October 2021 as Vice President, Global Research and Development. Before joining Harvard Bioscience, Nitya worked at Spacelabs Healthcare for 15 years, specializing in Patient Monitoring and GE Consumer & Industrial for seven years. Nitya has experience in developing innovative and high-performance R&D onshore/ offshoring centers across the span of multiple geographies that are constantly evolving and supporting revenue generation. He played a key role in transforming medical devices to catch up with the latest consumer technologies for patient comfort and simple product lifecycle management. Nitya has been successful in developing joint ventures, partners, and acquisitions to keep up with fast-changing technology, and in delivering products that exceed customer expectations. He is experienced in building and managing strong teams in advanced research and development, integration and systems, and operations management.