Uthra Gopalakrishnan
Marketing Team Director
Bio:
Uthra Gopalakrishnan is a Marketing Team Director at Genentech, where she has spent nearly a decade at the intersection of marketing, strategy, and innovation. Her career spans management consulting at ZS Associates, sales operations, field-facing roles, and senior marketing strategy across therapeutic areas including neuroimmunology, respiratory, and rheumatology, and she currently leads the Lytics portfolio. Across these roles she has spearheaded products through nearly every stage of the lifecycle, which has given her a sharp, evolving read on the needs of patients and customers, the anchor she returns to when solving any problem. An early adopter of new ideas and technology, Uthra is a catalyst for innovation, known for galvanizing teams and driving bold change, guided by a simple belief: change is constant, and the job is to ride the wave while always doing right by the customer. Within Genentech, she has established herself as a leader in tackling complex, ambiguous problems and championing innovation across the organization.