Matthew Dark Show-Sanjiv Lal CEO Cell Factors and Regenerative Care

Sanjiv Lal is a self-made healthcare entrepreneur who started his career as a pharmacist at CVS and went on to build businesses across diagnostics, wellness and regenerative medicine.Raised middle class in Ohio as the son of Indian immigrants, Sanjiv went to state college before beginning his career at CVS and later Eli Lilly. Working inside healthcare exposed him to a problem hecouldn't ignore: advances in medicine were helping people live longer, but not necessarily healthier. He decided to build differently.Over the next two decades, Sanjiv founded three laboratory companies, helped build diagnostic organizations responsible for more than one million patient test results, and today owns Beverly HillsRejuvenation Center, a 22-location wellness and regenerative medicine business, while building his newest company, Cell Factors.At 40, his work became deeply personal. After surviving COVID, Sanjiv developed Stage 3 kidney disease that his physicians attributed to remdesivir. Becoming the patient inside the industry where he'dbuilt his career changed both his definition of success and what he wanted to build next.