Mr. Ashish Kumar, Managing Director of PineBridge Asia Partners, leads the Private Equity practice for India for PineBridge Investments. Ashish has over 13 years of experience in Indian private equity, Ashish has the experience across economic cycles and stages of company evolution.

Ashish has served on the boards of companies spanning a wide range of sectors from manufacturing, business services, healthcare and infrastructure, some of them being Firepro Systems, Uniparts India Limited, Narayana Hrudyalaya, etc. During his private equity career, Ashish has the experience of investing across economic cycles.

Ashish started his career with investment banking team in Bank of America, which he was responsible for India technology sector coverage.

Ashish is an computer science engineer from IIT, Delhi and an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Dr. Ajaikumar is a doctorpeneur and the Chairman & CEO of HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd with over 40 years of experience. After completing his MBBS from St John’s Medical College, Bangalore, he went on to complete his residency training in oncology from the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville followed by fellowship in radiation and medical oncology from the renowned MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas. Dr. Ajaikumar also founded a not-for-pro?t hospital in Mysore, Bharath Hospital and Institute of Oncology in 1989. At the same time, along with a group of oncologists, he started the Bangalore Institute of Oncology (BIO).

HCG was instrumental in introducing high-end technologies like CyberKnife™ and TrueBeam™. It also brought in advanced bone marrow transplant therapies as well as molecular imaging. Dr. Ajaikumar acquired Triesta, which was a molecular diagnostic lab. Today, HCG is rapidly expanding and will soon have 26 comprehensive cancer care centers from its present number, 17. Among his other achievements, he has been awarded the prestigious E&Y Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year Award as well as the Asian Health Care Leadership Awards. Harvard Business School has done several case studies on HCG. Apart from his charitable work, he enjoys being a marathon runner and is a voracious reader.

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Dr Ajay Aggarwal is a consultant Radiologist with Diwanchand Medical Services for the last 17 years which runs a chain of radiology clinics in the national capital region (NCR). An alumnus of Modern School, Delhi, he did his MBBS from Delhi University and post graduation from PGIMER, Chandigarh in Radio-diagnosis. He is the third generation of Radiologists in the family and currently in-charge of business development of the group.

He has served as the executive Director Devki Devi Hospitals Pvt Ltd. (1996-2000), to set up a 300 bedded hospital in South Delhi. He was involved in the restructuring of the company and responsible for induction of Max Healthcare as a strategic partner.

He was executive Director of Diwan Chand Metropolis Pvt Ltd and Pathnet India Ltd. (2002-2005), a joint venture with Metropolis Healthcare pvt ltd to provide pathology services in North India.

As Director Diwan Chand Medical Services Pvt Ltd (till 2012) he undertook various initiatives including identification of new opportunities for setting up radiology facilities in Hospitals as well as free standing radiology centres for the company and was involved in the investment into the company by US based Angel fund Medserve Ventures and private equity fund - Asian Healthcare Ventures in 2010.

He also serves as a partner in Heathcare Diwan Chand Imaging LLP, a joint venture with Healthcare Global Pvt Ltd (HCG), Bangalore to establish PETCT imaging centre in Delhi. 

Ashwin Naik is the Founder & Director of Vaatsalya Healthcare, an award winning social enterprise, focused on building a network of hospitals in Tier II and Tier III towns in India. While 70% of India’s population lives in semi-urban and rural areas, majority of the healthcare facilities are in Urban areas and not accessible to these families. Vaatsalya is bridging this gap by building primary and secondary care hospitals in semi-urban and rural areas. Vaatsalya currently has eight hospitals in Karnataka and one in Andhra Pradesh, totaling 600 + beds and is the largest hospital network of its kind in India.

Winner of the Inaugural Porter Prize in India for value based healthcare, Vaatsalya has been recognized as the Most Innovative Healthcare Company by VCCircle in 2014 and by Fast Company in 2013, Winner of the BiD Challenge India 2007 for the best business in development in India, LRAMP Award for Innovation 2008, Sankalp Award for Social Enterprise 2009 and Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Excellence Award 2010 for its innovative business model.

He is also a Resident Fellow at Ashoka, a pioneering network of social entrepreneurs worldwide and Chairs the National Association of Social Enterprises, India.

Ashwin is a trained physician and has written and spoken about leadership, entrepreneurship, rural health and social entrepreneurship at various forums around the world, including World Health Congress, NHS Alliance, Ashoka Future Forum, Global Philanthropy Forum, and Africa Health summit (KPMG).

Ashwin has been recognized as a Economic Times Leaders under 40, Young Global Leader (YGL) 2012 By World Economic Forum, Young Leader by Asia Society Asia21 in 2011, Senior Ashoka Fellow in 2010, Finalist for the India Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010 by Schwab Foundation, Ted India fellow for 2009. Dare Magazine India in its April 2011 edition profiled Ashwin as 50 inspiring Entrepreneurs of India.

Ashwin has a medical degree from Karnatak Medical College, Hubli and a Masters from University of Houston, Texas.

Previously, he was the Vice President of Business Development and Informatics at Triesta Sciences, a clinical genomics company. Ashwin has been part of the human and mouse genome projects at Celera Genomics. He was instrumental in coordinating multidisciplinary teams to compile and analyze human and mouse genomes, leading to two publications in the journal Science. He holds three patents and has contributed a book chapter on Origin of Life.

Dr. Alok Roy serves as Chairman and Managing Director of Medica Synergie Pvt Ltd. and Medicare Synergie Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Roy serves as Vice President of Centre for Community Initiatives of Fortis Healthcare Limited. He has 17 years of clinical and administrative experience in the healthcare sector. He serves as the Chairman of The Board at Medica Superspecialty Hospital Pvt. Ltd. He serves as a Director of Medica Synergie Pvt Ltd. and Medicare Synergie Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Roy received MD from AIIMS and DRM from TMH, Bombay. 

Man who dreams of making India a self-sufficient nation in terms of medical technology, expertise and quality healthcare is Dr. GSK Velu. He has been awarded several recognition and has been named as "parallel entrepreneur" by Forbes and "first generation serial entrepreneur" by many but one thing he will always be - a proud waiver of the Indian flag in the face of tough international competition.

Dr. Velu’ s vision, determination and futuristic approach to make healthcare affordable to one and all made it possible for the tens of thousands of Indians who accessed medical technology, diagnostic services, eye care, dental care and dialysis services which otherwise used to be a very costly affair and hence unaffordable for the common man.

Making Healthcare Accessible and Affordable not only to Indian Population but to the underprivileged population across the world is the vision for which he is working for over 27 years from 1988 in the Corporate World. All his corporate ventures work with one goal of improving access and affordability for Healthcare across the Globe with specific relevance to Under Developed/ Developing market.

Under the current portfolio, Dr. Velu is Founder and Managing Director, Trivitron Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Largest Indian Medical Technology Company in the world, Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd., second largest chain of medical laboratories in the country, Founder and Chairman of Maxivision Eye Care Hospitals- a Medfort Hospitals Initiative. Pioneers in Laser Surgery in India and Founder and Director, Alliance Medicorp Ltd. and Alliance Dental Ltd., largest chain of Dental hospitals & largest chain of Dialysis Clinics in India.

Entrepreneurship Profile:

  •  Founder and Managing Director, Trivitron Group of Companies (the largest medical technology company of Indian origin)
  •  Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, Metropolis Healthcare (one of the largest Diagnostic laboratory chains in Asia)
  •  Founder and Chairman, Medfort Hospitals (a network of Eye care Hospitals)
  •  Founder and Director, Alliance Medicorp (Chain of Dialysis and Dental Care)

Hari Buggana is the Managing Director of InvAscent India - a private equity firm focused on the Indian life sciences sector. Prior to this, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company.  During his stint at McKinsey, Hari primarily worked with life sciences businesses in the US, Europe, and India on a variety of issues ranging from corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, product-market strategy, R&D productivity, organizational effectiveness, and operations improvement.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Hari worked as a scientist in the Pharmaceutical Products Division of Abbott Laboratories, USA. He has a MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

K.Chandrasekhar (KC) is the Founder & CEO of Forus Health Pvt. Ltd. We are an innovation-driven technology enterprise managed by very experienced professionals. Forus strongly believes that healthcare solutions for emerging countries have to be different both in terms of development as well as deployment. Forus develops innovative products combined with comprehensive software solutions to enable not only screening at the patient's doorstep but facilitate treatment as well. Forus develops affordable technology solutions that can easily be used by a minimally trained technician, thereby making health service accessible and scalable.

The Forus name means, "For us" - me and my community. Forus strongly believes that by "Democratizing Wellness,” they can play an active role in addressing healthcare issues in India and around the world.

Forus flagship product 3nethra, a screening device for common eye problems like cataract, diabetic retina, refractive problems, corneal infections and glaucoma is already deployed in more than 70+ locations pan India and in other emerging markets like Africa, Asia etc. Its digital imaging and cloud based portal enables easy interface to Telemedicine, remote diagnostics/ work flows and easy access to historical data. More details can be found on www.forushealth.com.

Prior to founding Forus Health, KC was the Director of Strategy & Software Partnerships at NXP (Philips) Semiconductors. KC has 23+ years of experience in Business Strategy, Business Development, Product Management, Sales Management in leading Semiconductor and Software Companies.

KC is an alumnus of BITS Pilani and IIM C 

Kaushik has always nurtured a strong passion for reforming the healthcare system in India, and providing consumers with high-quality, excellent service and an ethical option for all their healthcare needs. Today, he has the privilege of witnessing this dream come to life in the form of Healthspring-a growing network of Family Health Experts.  

He received a scholarship to pursue his undergraduate studies in Colby College, USA, and received his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 2003.

Prior to founding Healthspring, he worked with management consulting firm Bain & Co. in Boston, Singapore and Delhi for over 11 years. At Bain, he worked extensively with hospitals, pharmacy and manufacturers of medical devices as well as Private Equity firms, gaining invaluable experience for his current role. When Bain opened an India office in 2005, he was an instrumental member in establishing the office. Kaushik was most recently a Principal at Bain India.

In 2009, he left Bain to co-found Wellspring Healthcare, the parent company of Healthspring. The company’s core mission is to transform the Healthcare Delivery system in India by establishing the pioneering and foremost national primary healthcare delivery network in India, and eventually becoming the most trusted healthcare brand in the country.

At Healthspring, he leads a passionate team of more than 300 medical and non-medical professionals. Healthspring currently provides high-quality primary and secondary healthcare services to close to 2 lakh users, through its 15+ medical centres, and robust Corporate Healthcare program.

He has been a featured speaker in various national and international conferences on Healthcare and entrepreneurship in India

An IIM-Ahmedabad alumini, Dr. Om Manchanda started his career with Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) as a management trainee in the year 1990. His next stint was with Monsanto, a biotech company, where he was part of a team that successfully launched their first ever biotech product Bt-Cotton as the head of Sales and Marketing. In 2003, he thus joined Ranbaxy as Head - Marketing and later moved as Head-International and Innovation group, Consumer Healthcare Division. Ultimately, in 2005, he left it to join Dr Lal PathLabs Pvt Ltd as the COO. Since 2008, he is the CEO of the company and has transformed the company from around Rs. 40 crores to Rs 675 crores company in the current Financial Year.

Dr Mahipal. S. Sachdev, Chairman  & Medical Director of Centre For Sight was honored with Padmashri award on January 26, 2007. He is a renowned ophthalmic Surgeon who is recognized for his expertise in the area of Corneal, Refractive & Cataract Surgery, both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Sachdev completed his MBBS from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He pursued MD in Ophthalmology at Dr Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences. He did advanced training and fellowship in Cornea at the Georgetown University, Washington, USA. He has received training in Refractive Surgery and Phacoemulsification. Dr. Sachdev has been Secretary of the Delhi Ophthalmological Society (DOS) and the Chairman, Scientific Committee of All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS). Currently he is the Chairman Intraocular implant and Refractive Society, India.

Dr Mahipal S. Sachdev has received numerous awards and distinctions in India and abroad for his contribution to Ophthalmology. He has been recognized globally with fellowships and scholarships from the “Fifth International Symposium on Immunopathology”- Japan, “International Society of Eye Research”, “Research to Prevent Blindness”, New York, “Fisons award by the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists”, USA amongst others.

Manish has over 15 years of Investment Banking and Corporate Advisory experience in India. He has advised corporates from across sectors including consumers, infrastructure, media, financial services, natural resources, metals, education etc. Apart from having wide relationships and deep sector knowledge he also has valuable experience of working across investment banking products including Private Equity advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, structuring, financial engineering and valuations. Manish was instrumental in setting up Mid Market investment banking practice at Kotak Mahindra Group and as head of the practice led many transactions. He brings deep expertise in proactive deal sourcing, structuring, valuation and negotiations. One of the critical skill sets which he adds to the team is strategizing exits with a view to maximize value since he has extensive experience on IPOs and strategic sale.

He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and was an All India rank holder from November 1995 batch. Before TVS Capital Manish has worked with SBI Capital Markets, Ernst & Young- Corporate Finance and with Kotak Investment Banking.

Monika is a founding partner at Arete Advisors and leader of the healthcare practice. She has c.16 years of consulting experience including over 13 years in healthcare advisory. During this time Monika has worked with more than 100 leading firms, private equity funds and government departments. She has supported them in improving access to healthcare services, formulating strategies for growth, improving operational performance, making investment decisions and building their people’s capabilities. She has provided advisory services across over 50 markets in the country and other South East Asian and Middle Eastern countries. She has an in-depth understanding across sub-segments in healthcare delivery including multi-specialty hospitals, specialty centres and day care, retail formats of healthcare delivery and laboratory and radiology diagnostics.

At Areté she has advised leading healthcare groups in the country and led commercial diligence/post-investment performance improvement exercises for leading global and Indian Private Equity players with interest in healthcare.

Prior to founding Areté, Monika was the President and CEO of the Corporate Advisory Division at Feedback Infra. She is a management graduate from IIM Ahmedabad and a post graduate in Physics from Delhi University.

Dr. N.Krishna Reddy, has graduated from Osmania Medical College in 1984 with honors. He completed his MD in Internal Medicine from the prestigious Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh in 1987. He did his fellowship in Cardiology leading to DM from GB Pant Hospital, Delhi University, New Delhi.

He worked at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, and Mediciti Hospitals, Hyderabad, prior to establishing Care Hospitals. He has pioneered advanced imaging techniques and electrophysiology procedures in the state of Andhra Pradesh. His contribution to landmark original research includes studies on Percutaneous Valvotomy for Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis, Prosthetic Valve Thrombosis, Role of Sildenafil in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension etc.

He conducted epidemiological studies on cardiovascular risk factors. He has been acting as Principal Investigator and National Lead Investigator for various multinational drug and device trials. He established a dedicated department of Clinical Research at Care Hospitals. He was the key member of the team that developed and tested India's first indigenous coronary stent, popularly known as Kalam-Raju Stent.

He co-founded the Care Hospitals in 1997, which has grown rapidly from 100-bed strength, single hospital, single specialty entity to more than 1500-bed strength, 12-hospitals, 6-states, and multispecialty within a short span of 10 years. He is currently Managing Director, Andhra Cardiology Associates (ACA), which has the largest team of 50 Cardiologists managing Cardiology services in various Care Hospitals; Director & CEO at Care Hospitals since 2006; Member, Board of Directors, Care Foundation. He co-founded Relisys Medical Devices and is currently its Chairman. Relisys Medical Devices has created a cost-effective  end-to-end technology platform for both Stents and Polymer-based Catheters. 

Raghav has been with ChrysCapital since September 2003 and focuses on the pharmaceuticals sector. Previously, he was with the global research division at McKinsey & Company. Raghav received an MBA from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon and a Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Baroda University

Raj is the Senior Managing Director at FIL Capital Advisors (India) Private Limited. Raj has over ten years of leadership experience in the Indian private equity industry, with experience of investing across multiple stages and industries.

During his private equity career, Raj has also worked in The Carlyle Group and Merlion (Temasek-Standard Chartered JV) and was earlier the co-founder and Managing Director of WestBridge Capital Partners (now Sequoia India).

Raj started his career as a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton where he worked both in USA and India. He subsequently worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for India coverage and served on the board of Goldman’s then JV partner Kotak Mahindra Capital.

Raj holds an AB degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA degree from MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a charter member of TiE and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO). 

Rajen Padukone is the MD & CEO of Manipal Health Enterprises (Manipal Hospitals), the corporate healthcare and hospitals entity of the Manipal Education & Medical Group. Manipal Hospitals’ healthcare network comprises of primary, secondary and tertiary facilities. It has 16 hospitals covering 5,000 beds in India and overseas.

Mr. Padukone’s varied experience of over 33 years, covers the healthcare, education, banking and financialservices and manufacturing sectors. His healthcare experience includes establishing start-ups, bringing about a turnaround in operations and building & linking healthcare networks, from primary to tertiary care.

He joined Manipal Group in 1998 and over the past 16 years has worked in both their health and education verticals. His experience in the area of education includes managing various initiatives covering the entire spectrum of university education - from campus based education to distance and distributed learning and corporate & continuing education.

Mr. Padukone is the Vice President of the Healthcare Federation of India (NATHEALTH). He is also the Co-Chair in FICCI’s Health Services National Committee, a member of the CII National Committee on Healthcare and also a member of the Governing Council of the Healthcare Sector Skills Council.

Prior to joining the Manipal Group, he worked for 13 years with ANZ Grindlays Bank, in the areas of investment banking, international finance and retail financial services. He has also worked with IL & FS Ltd, Crompton Greaves Ltd and Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd.

He is a Post Graduate with a Masters in Economics from the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, and a Masters in Management Studies from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Ratan Jalan founded Medium Healthcare Consulting in 2009 driven by an urge to ‘make a difference in healthcare’. Innovation in business models and patient empowerment have been at the core of what he does. Ratan has over three decades of experience across diverse industries and functional responsibilities. He started his professional career in the information technology industry with HCL Technologies and then moved to advertising at Lintas (now Lowe).

Earlier, Ratan was the CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited, part of the Apollo Hospitals Group for almost a decade. He created some of the most successful and innovative healthcare formats in the country such as a nationwide network of The Apollo Clinic and The Cradle, South Asia’s first boutique birthing centres. In 1996, as President, Ratan set up India’s first hospital architecture and consulting firm Asian Health Services, a JV with ServiceMaster, a Fortune 500 company. He was awarded the Marketing Impact Award by S P Jain Institute of Management and has been nominated as one of the 50 most influential professionals in retailing. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and Harvard Business School.

Dr. Ravindranath Kancharla, M.S., FRCS (Glasgow) FRCS (Edin.) founded Global Hospitals Private Ltd. and also serves as its Managing Director. Dr. Kancharla serves as Vice President of Shiridi Sai Medical Trust, Nellore. He Worked about 7 years in the United Kingdom in various positions at Darlington Memorial Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, St. Mark's Hospital and King's College Hospital. He has performed over 15,000 Laparoscopic Operations including over 9000 Laparoscopic Gall Bladder operations.

Dr. Kancharla was Founding member and served as Treasurer of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia, Singapore (First Indian to occupy this post). He served as Hon. Secretary of Indian Association of Gastrointestinal & Endosurgeons from 1998 to 2000. He served as Vice President of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia, Singapore from 2001 to 2003. He served as President of Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endosurgeons from 2000 to 2002 and President Iages from 2002 to 2004. Dr. Kancharla serves as the Chairman of the Board of Global Hospitals Private Ltd.

He serves as a Director of Institute of Laparoscopic Training Center, Hyderabad (Recognized by ELSA, Singapore). He serves as Member of St. Mark's Association, London. He is Guest Faculty of Scientific Committee member for many International meetings of Endosurgery, Laparoscopic Surgery & G1 Surgery. 

S. B. Vikram,,M.D. serves as Managing Director and Physician of Vikram Hospital Private Limited. Mr. Vikram served as Consultant Physician at B.M.Hospital Mysore. He holds a MBBS from JSS, Mysore in 1991. He holds a MD from JNM, Belgaum in 1995. 

Sanjay joined IVFA in 2001 as the first Business Management Partner and was instrumental in giving practical shape to the firm’s philosophy of ‘Building Businesses’.   Based in Mumbai, he works closely with IVFA companies in various sectors including healthcare, auto components, manufacturing and construction materials.

A Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, and a Masters in Management from the University of Mumbai, Sanjay had over 17 years of experience prior to joining IVFA, including as President of Swiss firm Franke’s Indian subsidiary, Managing Director of Sekurit Saint-Gobain in India and stints with Johnson & Johnson and Grindwell Norton. 

Dr. Sanjeev K Chaudhry is an accomplished management professional, author and researcher. He is presently Managing Director of SRL Limited and Chairman of CSC Nutrigenomics Pte Limited, Singapore. He also serves on the Board of Directors of several companies and institutions in India and abroad.

SRL Limited is India’s largest and world’s leading Healthcare Diagnostics Company. The company runs a network of 250 Pathology Laboratories and Radiology Centers in India and serves over ten million people annually.

He was the South Asia head of DuPont Solae until June 2006, a position he held for eleven years. Prior to that he served as Chairman & Managing Director of Modern Food Industries and was the youngest person to head a Government of India company. He was also the first CEO of NatOleo Sdn Bhd Malaysia one of world’s largest producers of Oleochemicals.

He has a Ph.D in Business Administration from Columbia University, United States and holds a university record for Masters in Economics at Punjab University, Chandigarh.

Siddharth Dhondiyal, a Director in the IVFA investment team joined IVFA in 2006 and is involved with investments in healthcare, consumer and technology sectors.   Based in Bengaluru, he contributed to improving IVFA’s internal processes and developing the “The IVFA Way” - the Firm's approach to building admired businesses.

Over the last 10 years Siddharth has focused on tracking the evolution and growth of the Indian healthcare sector and has been actively involved in IVFA’s investments in the healthcare sector including Aster DM Healthcare, Manipal Hospitals, Trivitron Healthcare and Cloudnine Hospitals.

A Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur, Siddharth also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Kolkata and did his Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD, France.   He had a six-year stint with Accenture in its strategy consulting practice, where he worked with companies in the pharmaceutical, consumer goods, industrial products and telecom industries.

Shriram's inspiration to start NephroLife in India began with a revelation that - "Every year, 300,000 people need some form of renal replacement therapy in India but less than 10% of them have access to kidney care, and most of them die in the first year."
Shriram started NephroLife in 2009 with an angel investment from serial entrepreneur, Dev Kumar Roy, to establish the first-of-its-kind, technology-enabled, and dedicated kidney care community in the country with a strong focus on improving the clinical outcomes, quality and longevity of life for patients with kidney disease.

In 2011, after closing a second round of funding with VC major New Enterprise Associates and DaVita Inc. - a US-based Fortune 400 Company and one of largest kidney care providers worldwide, DaVita India was born. With the aid of a robust online monitoring system, networked dialysis machines, holistic medical care focus, and an outcomes-based healthcare approach, DaVita India is improving the overall value delivered to patients via its standalone as well as in-hospital business formats, and is committed to pursuing its mission of being the Provider, Partner and Employer of Choice.

Today, DaVita India is present across 8 cities and partnered with multiple leading hospitals and nephrologists across the country, and has emerged as India’s leading provider of innovative, high quality and no compromise kidney care.

Shriram began his career at Mars & Co. Management Consulting Firm in New York. During his time there, he advised Fortune 500 Companies in FMCG, Automotive and Health Insurance verticals in the United States, China, Hong Kong and India. He then returned to India as CEO of NU Hospitals, a nephro-uro speciality hospital.  He was also an advisor to InstaHealth Solutions, a Healthcare Information Systems Company. He has a double major in Economics & Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon.

Sohil brings to NVP India more than 13 years of financial, investment banking and private equity investment experience from leading global financial institutions. Based in the NVP India Mumbai office, Sohil serves as an advisor on growth equity investments in Indian companies across a wide range of sectors, including telecom, technology, financial services, infrastructure and manufacturing. Sohil advised NVP India’s investments in Asian Genco Pte Ltd. (AGPL), NSE (National Stock Exchange of India, Ltd.), Nueclear Healthcare Limited, Sadbhav, Snowman Logistics, and Thyrocare. Sohil is also a board observer for NationWide Primary Healthcare Services.

Prior to joining NVP India, Sohil was an Executive Director in Goldman Sachs’ Asian Special Situations Group, a balance sheet investing group with over $4 billion under management. Sohil was the first executive recruited for the group’s India business in 2006 and became part of a five-member team in Mumbai tasked with building and running the India business. In this role with Goldman Sachs, Sohil was involved in making over $300 million of private equity and PIPE investments in India.

Vishal Bali is Group CEO for Fortis Healthcare, which operates an integrated healthcare delivery network across 8 countries in Asia. The healthcare verticals of the company span 600 primary care centers, 240 diagnostic centres, day care speciality and 65 Hospitals. Fortis Healthcare is amongst the fastest growing healthcare delivery organizations in Asia with presence in different verticals of healthcare including Primary Care, Diagnostics and  Hospitals  powered by human capital strength of 18,000 people.

Vishal has dedicated more than 2 decades to healthcare management and is recognized for successfully building and leading global healthcare delivery organizations in Asia. His previous assignments include spearheading the growth of Wockhardt Hospitals as one of the largest specialty hospital chains in India as its CEO. His expertise in successfully integrating healthcare strategy, operations and management through Information technology has set industry benchmarks.

Vishal completed his Bachelors in Science and Masters in Business Administration from Bombay University and completed an advance program in hospital management from Boston. He sits on the board of leading healthcare organisations and has been an invited member of the Strategic Initiatives group of Joint Commission International, US and on the Global Agenda Healthcare Council of the World Economic Forum. His keen interest in education and globalisation of healthcare takes him to leading Healthcare Education Institutes and Business Schools globally, which includes a case study at the Harvard Business School. He is an active member of various Industry bodies and a globally recognized industry public speaker.