Mihir Deshpande

Mihir Deshpande

Senior Director and Head, Commercial Operations and Strategy, Asia Pacific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Mihir Deshpande is a member of APJ leadership team and heads strategy and commercial operations for Thermo Fisher Scientific across 15+ countries in the Asia Pacific and Japan region.

Deshpande is widely recognised for developing and executing high-impact growth strategies, leading large-scale digital commerce transformation programmes, and delivering profitable growth through commercial excellence. He has built a strong reputation for driving disciplined commercial execution, embedding data-led operating rhythms, and ensuring day-to-day accountability across complex, matrixed environments.

He brings deep market understanding and operational expertise in both direct and channel-led models, having established a scalable channel management framework that has driven faster, more consistent growth across complex markets.

Deshpande has held leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson and Thermo Fisher across India, the U.S., and Asia, and has been recognised through multiple awards.