Mr.Abhishek Kapoor currently serves the healthcare industry as Senior Vice President – Strategy, Regency Healthcare, Kanpur.

In his career span he has been associated with PriceWater House Coopers, Ernst & Young, American Appraisal and Deloitte with the strategy consulting and merger and acquisition valuation practice.

After acquiring his MBA degree he has worked with Davita, the largest Kidney dialysis chain, in the United States of America, before returning to Kanpur to assist Regency Healthcare in expanding and achieving its vision.

Abhishek’s vision was to reach tertiary healthcare to every doorstep in U. P. His vision was to break barriers of the medical fraternity and provide the advanced treatment solutions that patients from U. P. had to travel to a metro to access for their diseases to be treated. This he dreamt would be possible with strategy and planning for expansion of Regency Healthcare to every corner of the state. But he recognized the need for advanced medical equipment and machinery, further investment in advanced diagnostics and most importantly, doctors who shared his vision and commitment to make India as disease free as possible.

With new strategies put in place by Abhishek Kapoor, the group secured funding towards expansion and Regency graduated from Regency Hospitals to Regency Healthcare; grew in numbers also, to five facilities. Regency today provides a comprehensive cancer treatment; dialysis centre; is soon to launch a south Kanpur multi-specialty unit in Govind Nagar and is planned for an expansion outside Kanpur in the future.

Abhishek is a Director at Samara Capital - Mid Market focussed Private Equity Fund. Abhishek has been with Samara Capital for over 9 years and also leads its healthcare vertical. He is on the board of 3 healthcare investments of Samara: Asian Institute of Gastroenterology - super specialty hospital focussed on medical and surgical gastroenterology Lotus Surgicals - Fast growing company in the surgical consumables and devices space SMT - Leading Indian stents company. Abhishek is a Chartered Accountant and an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

Dr. Ajay Bakshi is the Managing Director & CEO of Manipal Health Enterprises (Manipal Hospitals) since July 2014. Manipal Hospitals is the corporate healthcare and hospitals entity of the Manipal Education & Medical Group and its healthcare network comprises of 16 hospitals covering 7,000 beds in India and Malaysia. Building on the existing strength and reputation of Manipal Hospitals for clinical excellence, Dr Bakshi is leading a digital transformation of its core business model, as well as leading an organizational transformation to make the entire hospital network more empathic and friendly towards patients and their families.

Prior to Manipal, in 2011 – Dr. Bakshi worked at Max Healthcare as their MD & CEO where he led a succesful launch of 4 new hospitals as well as a comprehensive turn-around of the overall network. Dr. Bakshi trained as a neurosurgeon: he has an MBBS and M.Ch. (Neurosurgery) degrees from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. After finishing his Chief Residency, he has worked as a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Vidya Sagar Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (VIMHANS), New Delhi. During this period he started a successful endoscopic neurosurgery practice, in addition to performing more than 600 major brain and spinal surgeries for complex neurosurgical conditions.

In 2002, he transitioned to a research role at Dept. of Neurobiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, where he built a research program around minimally invasive stem cell transplantation for spinal cord injuries. Based on an R21 research grant that he received from National Institute of Health, Dr. Bakshi developed and demonstrated the safety and efficacy of Autologous Stem Cell transplantation via lumbar puncture technique in animal models - a procedure that is becoming main stream for Human Stem Cell transplantation now. At the same time, he also completed the 2 year Wharton Management Program from The Wharton School.

In 2005, Dr. Bakshi joined McKinsey and Company, New Jersey and served large US corporations in Medical devices, Hospitals, Pharmaceuticals and Health Insurance sectors around questions related to their Strategy, Organizations and Operations. In 2008, he moved to their Dubai Office and got an opportunity to serve Prime Ministers and Health Ministers of the Middle East and African countries on questions related to the design and effectiveness of their countries' Health Systems. He left McKInsey in 2011 as an Associate Principal to join Max Healthcare as their CEO.

Dr. Ajay Sharma is an alumini of PG IMS Rohtak, (MBBS 1985 batch.) Passed out his MS in 1994 in ophthalmology S.R. Safdurjung Hospital in 1995 Fellowship from LVPEI, Hyderabad in 1996. Always first to adapt the latest technology in ophthalmology and has over 40000 successful surgeries to his credit.

Amongst Pioneers in introducing Phaco Emulsification at a time when best of the surgeons across the country were in transition to stitch less cataract surgery. Also has expertise in all surgeries of anterior segment including Glaucoma, Squint, Oculoplasty and Refractive Surgery.

Started 100 bedded Multi- specialists Sheetla Hospital and Eye Institute (P) Ltd. in 1999 and gave space to 30 specialists to work and employment to 130 employees in that year. He was the first to introduce Lasik in Haryana in 2000.He became first refractive surgeon in North India to start ARTISANS PHAKIC IOL’s and to as a trainer to other aspiring doctors in year 2005.

Pioneer in the field of MICRO INCISION CATARACT SURGERY WITH THE IMPLANTATION OF MICRO INCISION LENS in 2007 by procuring STELLARIS PHACO SYSTEM FROM BAUSCH AND LOMB

Amit Munjal, Founder and CEO of Doctor Insta, was earlier the CFO and Head of Investments at $120 Billion Division of CitiBank, USA. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President of Growth & Investment Strategy at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, USA where he managed a $100 Billion Investment Fund.

Amit’s prior stints include work in Corporate Strategy Practice of Deloitte Consulting (Clients: Yahoo, Google, Expedia.com etc.) and with Lehman Brothers in Europe and Asia.

Amit is a Regular Speaker on NDTV, CNBC, ETNow, Aaj Tak and is covered extensively by National Dailies on Increasing Employee Productivity and improving Healthcare. He is also an Eminent Panelist and Speaker at Microsoft Health Summits, Harvard Business School, Indiana University-Bloomington, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology and MDI Gurgaon. His professional qualifications include an MBA from Indiana University-Bloomington, USA; an Advanced Management from Harvard Business School and CFA Charter from CFA Institute, USA.

Apart from this, Amit is an active Mentor & Advisor to many startups in India and USA and is a Charter Member of TiE, Delhi and of Los Angeles Chapter of CFA Institute. During his spare time, Amit loves to travel, read and do farming.

Amishi has over 22 years of experience in Capital Markets in India. She has successfully managed to raise equity for over 75 corporates in both private and public sector, mobilizing close to INR 1,400 billion. Prior to joining YES SECURITIES, she has worked with SBI Capital Markets, Kotak Mahindra Group, Bennett & Coleman & Co. and HDFC Bank. She holds a degree in International Finance & Business from SIPA, Columbia University, New York and an MBA from India.

Apoorva Patni is involved with growing & incubating different businesses across Healthcare and IT services space. He has spearheaded the launch of Currae brand in healthcare with the first 4 hospitals being commissioned in record time of 9 months. Currae is among the fastest growing healthcare brands in India lending an experience of hassle free healthcare through its hospitals. The vision is to open 20 hospitals across Ophthalmology, Woman care and Orthopedics by 2020.

Apoorva has recently launched a Healthtech fund called Currae Healthtech Fund.  With the Group’s deep experience in technology and Healthcare through its operating businesses, the Fund has been making seed/VC style investments in companies that are using technology to disrupt the healthcare space in India.  The fund has made 15 investments in the past 18 months making it one of the more active players in the health tech space.  The investments are spread across Data Analytics, Genomics, Devices, Tele-medicine, Doctor Networks and Healthcare market places.

Apoorva Patni is from the Patni Group, which was the first group to start IT Services in India pioneering the IT offshoring business model.

Ashish’s experience spans 16 years across Banking and Finance in areas like Treasury (Rupee & Forex), Venture Capital (investment structuring), portfolio management and exits of small and mid sized companies. An early member of the team, his current role as CFO has him oversee structuring of investments, portfolio monitoring, and fund raising and exits. A Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary by qualification, he has also been a visiting faculty and speaker at industry associations and premier business schools.

Avnish Bajaj is the co–founder and Managing Director of Matrix Partners India which is an investment firm with INR 3000 cr under management. Matrix India invests across early and growth stages of businesses in select sectors – Mobile Internet, Healthcare and Consumer.

Previously Avnish was the co–founder, Chairman and CEO of India’s Largest Online Marketplace - Baazee.com - which was acquired by eBay. eBay India today is the largest eCommerce Marketplace in India. Prior to Baazee, he was an Investment Banker with the Hi–Tech group at Goldman Sachs in New York and San Francisco. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. and started his career with Apple Computer in the Bay Area.

Avnish’s select current investments for Matrix India include Limeroad (mobile social marketplace), Ola (online transportation aggregator), Practo (doctor search engine), Quikr (online local classifieds), Stayzilla (hotels and alternate stays marketplace), Centre for Sight (eye care hospitals), cloudnine (maternity hospitals), Meditrina (cardiac care hospitals) and Mewar (orthopaedic hospitals). He is also a founder investor in Cleartrip (online travel agent) and has a few other investments as an angel investor.

He is a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, WARF Fellow from University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Computer Science graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

He has been honored with various academic and professional achievements such as National Talent Search Scholarship, AISSCE Topper Award, Young Achievers Award (Outlook Magazine 2005) and citations by various industry organizations.

Avnish Mehra joined Everstone in 2016 and is responsible for leading deal teams in the health-care and media sectors as well as special situations. Avnish has over 18 years’ experience in global investment firms based in Asia and Europe, and has worked with ABN Amro and Virgin Media. Most recently, he was a member of the team that established the India business for Advent International. Avnish holds a Bachelor of Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, with a Master of Economics from Cambridge University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder from the CFA Institute in the USA.

A legend in cardiology, Dr. Bollineni Bhaskar Rao {MBBS,MS, DNB (CT Surgery)} is one of the very few Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons in the country, who performed over 30000 surgeries in his career spanning over last 25 years. After completing studies from India and abroad, Dr. Bhaskar Rao started his career in 1990 before turning into a healthcare entrepreneur in 2000. Dr. Bhaskar Rao's thirst, thrust and quest is to make medical facilities available to as many people as possible.

Well known in the medical fraternity for his passion towards his profession, Dr. Rao started his entrepreneurial journey at "Mahavir Cardio Vascular Centre" in Hyderabad with 50 beds and performed heart surgeries at an unimaginable low cost of just Rs. 45,000 only. Dr. Rao never turned away any patient from the hospital for want of money.

The brand "Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences", under Dr. Bhaskar Rao’s aegis began its journey in 2004 with a 300 bed hospital on par with the then established hospitals of Hyderabad in professional excellence, the state of art technology and infrastructure facilities. With 1000-bed KIMS Secunderabad, an ISO 9001-2000 recognized institution, is today's South-India's largest healthcare facility under one-roof. This institution has been accredited by NABL, NABH.

Dr. Bhaskar Rao was instrumental in formulating Rajiv Gandhi Aarogyasri scheme, first time launched in Andhra Pradesh in 2007 for providing health care to the poorest of the poor. This prestigious scheme has won him accolades from all quarters of the country and the world. He was the chief architect of Aarogyashri scheme for both creating it and implementing it successfully. This well formulated scheme has become so popular that the other States in India have emulated it time and again; and operate similar schemes across the country even today.

Mahaveer Cardio Vascular Centre was conceived, designed and established by him in 1996 with a major thrust on providing high quality care at nominal cost. The Cardio Vascular centre deals with Tertiary care referrals within the reach of a common man who cannot afford expensive treatment.

Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) was established in the year 2004 and within a span of less than a decade is now a 1000 bed hospital, located on a sprawling campus at Minister Road a between the twin cities of Secunderabad and Hyderabad. The Hospital has been set up in keeping with international standards using cutting edge technology and is managed by a group of highly qualified Doctors and Health Care Professionals.

Afghanistan’s FIRST of its kind state of the art Diagnostic Centre in the capital city, Kabul was established by him – KIMS Wardhak Diagnostic Centre. The Centre was equipped with latest generation MRI, CT scanner and basic Laboratory facilities. The Diagnostic Unit was  Tele linked to Krishna Institute of Medical Science in Hyderabad for expert opinion. All the Tests were subsidized, which provides an opportunity for the population in Afghanistan to have access to the best diagnostic facilities.

With the singular aim of reaching out to the poor by providing FREE education & Medical care in my native town Nellore, he along with his brothers established a charitable Foundation - Bollineni Krishnaiah Charitable Trust. Through the auspices of this Trust, the very FIRST Nursing School in region was established in 2002, furthermore, in 2005, he set up a Nursing and Physiotherapy College in Hyderabad, which is attached to Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences.

He was recently awarded at the Times Healthcare Achievers Award 2017 with The Lifetime Achiever of the Year in Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Mr Bhavdeep Singh is the CEO of Fortis Healthcare, this being his second stint as the Chief Executive Officer of the organization. At Fortis, Mr. Singh is driving a strong push towards bringing great patient care to every patient in every hospital, every single day.  In addition to driving patient care, the clinical team at Fortis is driving a strong push towards clinical excellence on multiple fronts. At a time when the disease burden continues to grow in India, Mr Singh and the Fortis Healthcare team are taking the lead in helping India becoming a healthier nation.

Mr Singh is an acknowledged business leader and a seasoned professional, with over 25 years of experience. He has held senior executive roles in Healthcare, Human Resources and Retail. He has worked across multiple geographies and has a strong track record of building and leading great teams whilst delivering exceptional results.

Prior to joining Fortis, Mr Bhavdeep Singh was with Ahold, a 26 USD billion retailer with almost 800 stores. He was with the company for almost five years and served on the company’s executive board. While there, he was EVP of HR and then went on to head Ahold’s US operations and the new formats business. In addition, prior to his initial stint at Fortis, Mr. Singh ran Reliance Retail in India and was at the helm when Reliance opened up more than 700 new stores in less than two years.

Mr Singh attended Pace University and completed several certified courses in Leadership and Executive Management from premier institutions such as the Harvard Business School, Cornell University, University of Hartford, Dial Institute of Management and St. Joe’s University in the United States.

Chhitiz Kumar has experience cutting across Healthcare industry and Financial Services. Over the last 2 decades, he has worked with Johnson & Johnson and GE Capital.

Currently as head of Philips Capital for South Asia and Middle-East & Turkey, he is responsible for debt financing and equity investments for Philips. He also leads Healthcare consulting business and Public-Private Partnership business of Philips in South Asia.

His vast experience across financial services and healthcare industry, cutting across functions, helps him bring a holistic and balanced view. He is passionate about healthcare industry and has been working with various healthcare models across geographies to achieve the goal of “Affordable, Accessible, Quality Healthcare for All”.

Chhitiz is MBA graduate from IIM, Kolkata and an alumni of INSEAD, France. He is also Institute of Director (IOD) certified “Independent Director” and a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.

Deepak Sahni is the Founder and CEO of Healthians.com, India’s largest health test/diagnosis @ home service, creating an entirely new benchmark for premier service quality and honest prices, backed by innovative state-of-the-art technology.

Being a start-up founder, Mr. Sahni’s chief responsibilities include everything that the business needs to scale and sustain in this highly competitive market landscape. He is fully responsible for the company’s complete Marketing, Supply Chain management, operations, HR and Finance.

Armed with a rich and diverse experience in domestic and international healthcare marketing, Mr. Sahni realized quite early that Healthcare in India is primarily focused on illness and treatments of lifestyle disease.

This prompted him to build a unique brand which pivots around prevention, monitoring and management of diseases and help people live healthy and happy by regularly monitoring and testing their routine health parameters. The core insight behind the brand lied in the fact that nobody takes care of their own health and all need a reliable support system which guarantees convenience, standardization, quality service, transparency and trust.

Belonging to a family of entrepreneurs, Mr. Sahni is a serial entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience, having founded a Digital Healthcare Agency - SWT and was also the founding partner of HBG - a Healthcare Market Research & Medical Tourism company. He has also represented the country in the Medical Tourism Congress in US for three years consecutively.

Prior to establishing Healthians.com, Mr. Sahni had a series of successful entrepreneurial ventures to his credit. He started his very first business venture at the age of 19 – a computer assembling business, followed by a Digital Healthcare agency. He has also worked with 120 renowned hospitals across the world gaining a vast pool of knowledge and business acumen.

Under Deepak’s able leadership, Healthians.com is looking to expand within and beyond Delhi NCR, equipped with best-of-breed technology, highest quality diagnostics & wellness and a highly skilled team of lab experts, doctors, nutritionists and medical specialists.

Fully understanding his social responsibilities, Mr. Sahni is committed to set up an establishment that can help underprivileged and needy individuals with free-of-cost medical tests and other allied services. Mr. Deepak Sahni is married to a technology entrepreneur and is a father to a 7 year old daughter. In his leisure time, he lives his passion for cooking up delectable authentic cuisines from across the world and go for fun-filled vacations every year. He has been awarded has Futuristic Face of Healthcare in 2009, Leaders Award for Social Impact Enterprise of Year 2015 and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2016.

Dr. Dharminder Nagar is the Managing Director of Paras Healthcare. He has the unique advantage of being a doctor, hospital administrator and entrepreneur all in one. Several qualifications that include an MBBS from Mysore Medical College, MPhil from BITS Pilani, MS from Imperial College and MBA from Harvard, have propelled this young and dynamic MD to the forefront of healthcare. Dr. Nagar’s missionary zeal to make health services accessible to all Indians led to the establishment of Paras Healthcare, which is founded on the three principles of affordability, accessibility and quality.

Dr. Nagar’s keenness to deliver accessible tertiary medical care to people of every social strata is obvious from the cutting edge technologies and infrastructure present in all hospitals, at affordable prices. He supports every Indian’s right to healthcare and plans to introduce new models of healthcare delivery that empower patients at every stage, from the primary to the tertiary. Imparting awareness about healthy living practices is an important component of services at hospitals. A strong rural marketing strategy that includes Telemedicine supports the activities of Paras HMRI in Patna also enables communities in the far flung areas of Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana to access medical care.

Dr. Nagar is a leader with a strong social bent of mind, committed to realizing his vision of providing healthcare solutions for the common man. Corporate social responsibility is integral to Paras Healthcare, and the three hospitals run by the group- Paras Hospitals in Gurgaon, Paras Bliss in South Delhi, Paras Bliss in Panchkula ,Paras HMRI in Patna and Paras Global Hospital in Darbhanga- were built in response to unmet healthcare needs of the rural and urban people in the region. Hailing from a rural background, Dr. Nagar is determined to bridge the gap between the rich and poor, and has built hospitals in areas that lack health infrastructure, specialists and tertiary care. Ultimately Dr. Nagar perceives Paras Healthcare as a partner in health for the common man.

Dr Dharminder Nagar has been awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year (2015) Award at the India Health & Wellness Summit 2015 and Dynamic Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 by Six Sigma Healthcare Awards at the World Entrepreneur Summit.

Mr. Dilip G. Shah graduated from the premier business school in India, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He has 50 years of varied experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He has addressed several WTO workshops on TRIPS, WIPO seminars on IPRs and Public Health, WHO meetings on Access to Medicines and several other international meetings and conferences. He was a Member of the official Indian Delegation to WTO Ministerial Conference at Cancun. He also appeared before the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) and testified in Investigation No.332-543 Hearing in Washington DC in 2014.

Currently, he is the Secretary-General of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (www.ipa-india.org), Member of the Expert Review Committee of Access to Medicine (ATM) Index (www.atmindex.org); Member of the CPhI International Advisory Board; Member of the Board of Advisors of Pharmabiz.com (Weekly); and Member of Task Forces and Expert Groups constituted by the Government of India for accelerating growth of the Indian pharmaceutical industry. He was Chair of the International Generic Pharmaceutical Alliance (IGPA) for two terms (2005-07) and (2010-11).

Mr. Shah is an independent director on the Boards of Fresenius Kabi Oncology Ltd, Anuh Pharma Ltd, Shaily Engineering Plastics Ltd and CEO of Vision Consulting Group (www.vision-india.com), a firm specialized in strategic planning. Before starting Vision in 1997, he was a Member of the Board of Directors of Pfizer-India for whom he worked for 30 years.

Gaurav is the Founder and CTO of 1mg, India’s #1 integrated healthcare platform with more than 10 million downloads of its app and 22 million monthly visits across its web and app properties.

Gaurav was born and raised in Kanpur. He is a Computer Science Graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD). Prior to 1mg, Gaurav was the CTO and Head pf Product at HealthKart, India’s #1 Nutrition eCommerce Company. Till 2013, before returning to India, Gaurav was the Business Head at Zynga for its globally bestselling online social gaming Business Farmville.

Mr. Girish Joshi, Senior General Manager by designation Heads Listing Business at Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). At BSE he also headed Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivative Segments and was instrumental in the launch of Interest Rate Derivatives and New Debt Segments. Before joining BSE, he has worked at ICICI Bank Group for 10 years. At ICICI Group he has worked in various areas like ICICIDirect.com, Treasury Mid Office and at CFO office.

Girish was also one of the earliest core team members which were involved in the set-up of National Stock Exchange (NSE). At NSE during 7 years he worked in Wholesale Debt Market and post trade functions. He is a member of CoBoSAC committee of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and also member of CII committee on Integrated Reporting. He represents BSE in Sustainability Working Group (SWG) of World Federation of Stock Exchange (WFE) and also Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative of the United Nations.

He has represented BSE in various sub groups formed by SEBI for market developments like E-IPO, Regulatory framework for Index Providers, Development of CBLO type products for Corporate Bonds, REITs and InVit etc. He is also member of the Secretarial Standard Board (SSB) formed by the Institute of Company Secretary of India (ICSI). Mr. Girish Joshi is Chartered Accountant as well as Cost Accountant by qualification.

Jagannath is a Partner at Ventureast and leads the Ventureast Life Fund’s investments in the healthcare, pharma, digital-health and cleantech businesses. He has extensive experience in the PE space, as well as in project finance and corporate banking.

Prior to joining Ventureast in 2010, Jagannath was with Advaita Energy Advisors, a PE fund focused on energy investments. At Advaita, he was responsible for identifying investment opportunities in Indonesia and Australia. He was specifically involved in investing in two coal mines – one a two billion ton coal mine in Indonesia and the other a potentially 30 billion ton coal mine in Northern Australia. Earlier, Jagannath was the CFO of Naturol Bioenergy Ltd, India’s first fully integrated biodiesel plant that successfully shipped biodiesel to Europe, complying with their stringent standards. He was instrumental in raising $35 million from Private Equity players (including Ventureast) and banks.

Jagannath brings with him extensive experience in project finance and corporate banking gained through his 11 year stint with ICICI Bank as the zonal head of corporate banking business for the southern region. This gave him an opportunity to work with leading companies in the region for structuring financial solutions to their requirements.

Jagannath holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, in Lucknow, India.

Jyotsna is the founder and CEO of Grow Fit (www.getgrowfit.com), a healthtech and wellness company that helps customers achieve peak wellness by using a combination of data science, medical science and behavioural insights. Jyotsna is a Melton Fellow and has served on the Board of Directors of the Melton Foundation, twice.

Jyotsna is an all-star internet and mobile maven, having spent her career on the frontlines of internet businesses. Starting her career at payments pioneer Cybercash (later acquired by Paypal), Jyotsna has played leadership roles at marquee companies like Oracle, eBay and Yahoo in Silicon Valley during their growth phases .She went on the play key roles at venture-funded companies backed by the likes of Kleiner Perkins and Menlo Ventures before moving back to India in 2008.

Back home in Bangalore, Jyotsna has helped build businesses at scale, such as OnMobile and Knowlarity (Sequoia-funded) as well as advise smaller companies intent on making a dent in the universe.

Jyotsna is an active participant and speaker at mobile events across India. Her work has been covered at the Wall Street Journal, Femina, CNBC, Outlook and other prominent publications.

Kaivaan is a Director in EY’s Performance Improvement practice in India. He has been associated with Ernst & Young for more than 13 years with a dedicated focus on healthcare consulting in the last decade. He has led and executed end to end advisory solutions spanning strategy, operations transformation and business systems across various sectors including provider care, diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. In addition, he has been actively involved in creation of thought leadership, contributing to a number of publications and articles in the area of healthcare (topics such as Re-engineering Healthcare, Universal Health Cover, Call for action – Oncology & Infertility, Innovation in Healthcare, and Fostering Quality Healthcare for All). He has also been associated with various healthcare industry bodies in their representations to the government in regard to regulatory reforms especially around healthcare pricing currently.

His passion is working with provider care chains and their PE investors to transform & consolidate operations and significantly improve operating margins by pulling key cost and revenue levers.

His experience with key provider care clients include key corporate chains namely Fortis, Max, Medanta, Manipal, HCG, Care, Global, KIMS, Columbia Asia, Medica, Cloudnine etc and PEs namely Carlyle, Advent, Temasek, TPG, True North, ICICI Venture, Olympus etc on their healthcare investments where he was worked with them actively in their pursuit of operational excellence.

K. L. Mukesh is a Venture Partner with Unitus Seed Fund and a senior business leader with extensive experience in operations management across global geographies and setting up and scaling of television and healthcare businesses. Most recently Mukesh was Interim CEO of Biosense, a medical engineering and design firm developing revolutionary diagnostics prior to which he founded, scaled and exited Akeso Healthcare, a provider of medical consultation and diagnostic services. Mukesh has worked in senior management positions with TATA Sky and DIRECTV, in roles involving customer operations and systems and managing bankruptcy turnaround. He has worked in India, South America, Japan and the United States. Early in his career, Mukesh worked with the Ministry of Planning, Govt. of India as a part of the Indian Statistical Services cadre.

Mukesh has also been a hands-on mentor for social impact organizations in healthcare, education and livelihood solutions space helping them setting up structures, systems and processes to scale.

Mukesh is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and holds an M. Stat degree from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Manish is a keen technology, people and business leader. He brings in over 24+ years of experience in building hardware and software IP oriented product companies, early stage investing, valuations, deal structuring and strategy advisory across different sectors.

He is the Founding Partner of pi Ventures, a venture fund focused on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and IoT based out of India.

He has been active in the startup eco-system in India for several years. He co-founded LetsVenture.com and led it to become the leading marketplace for startups & early stage investors in India (enabled 15 startups raising their rounds) within a very short span of time.

Before LetsVenture, he was the India country manager for Sling Media Inc, a silicon valley based consumer electronic startup. He built the R&D and product team in India from scratch and took it to a successful acquisition to Echostar Inc in the USA for 380M USD.

He is also a founder-mentor for an initiative called Women Entrepreneur Quest, which is an annual event for recognizing and rewarding women entrepreneurs in India.

After doing his engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1992, he has been instrumental in building several products and teams in different startups and established organisations like Sling Media, Ittiam Systems and Motorola. He has contributed to the standardisation of MPEG-4 standard and holds couple of video technology patents to his name.

Manoj has over 10 years of experience in Strategy Consulting & Investment Banking, across diverse sectors including healthcare, chemicals, financial services, manufacturing, FMCG, and telecommunications. He has earlier worked with Accenture India as a strategy consultant. He was Associate Vice President at Equirus Capital Private Limited for almost five and a half years. Manoj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

Dr. Mudit Saxena is a highly accomplished administrator with a Masters in Hospital Administration and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He did his MBBS from SMS Medical College, Jaipur and pursued academics with Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. and Singapore Management University.

Mudit has over 18 years of experience in leadership roles in corporate, trust and public sector healthcare organizations. He started his career serving at primary health centres in rural India. He later joined as the pioneering member of the first Private Medical College in the state of Rajasthan in India.

He worked with tertiary care superspecialty chain - Wockhardt Hospitals at key positions and later headed the Fortis Hospital at Cunningham Road, Bangalore. Dr. Saxena went on to serve the flagship hospital of Fortis – FMRI, Gurgaon as the Program Director.

Before joining CARE Hospitals he was associated with HCG Enterprises Ltd. – the leading Cancer Chain of Hospitals in India as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) managing the operations of key hospitals. He launched HCG Homecare Services and spearheaded strategic initiatives for the Group.

Currently, he serves as Group CEO for CARE Hospitals – the fifth largest chain of hospitals in India. The group operates through 14 hospitals with over 2200 beds in 6 cities across 5 states in India.

Dr. Mudit has served as Chairperson, Key Speaker and Panelist at various international and national healthcare forums. He was Chairman at the Healthcare World Asia Conference 2013 (Singapore), Key Speaker at Healthcare World Asia Conference 2014 (Singapore) and UK India Healthcare Summit 2016, organised by the BSICC at UK Parliament, London. He was also on the panel on sectoral investment in India and South Asia at the recently concluded Healthcare Business International 2017 (London). For his deep and incisive knowledge of Indian Healthcare Industry, Dr. Mudit has been awarded by ASIA One as the World’s Greatest Leaders in Asia and GCC (Healthcare) at Dubai in May 2017. He was also adjudged the Indian Affairs Health Administrator of the year 2017 at India Leadership Conclave, Mumbai in August 2017. He has also been a mentor and guide to over 30 students across the country as well as abroad.

Niraj Didwania heads the corporate development and investor relations function at HCG and was part of the team responsible in successfully taking the company public in the Company's IPO last year. Prior to joining HCG, Niraj was working as an investment banker in Kotak Investment Bank. Niraj, with combined experience over 12 yrs specializes in venture capital, private equity and cross-border Mergers and Acquisition transactions and has worked in Kotak, ING, UBS investment banks in New York and Mumbai. Niraj has management degrees in Finance and Marketing and has successfully closed deals in finance, consumer, IT and healthcare industries. Niraj has participated in Investor Conferences in Mumbai, Singapore, London and manages domestic and foreign institutional investors of HCG. As part of Corporate Development, Niraj is responsible for leading and managing new initiatives including domestic and international Joint ventures, partnerships and associations as well as investments in new ventures and start-ups.

Nitish Agrawal is a Managing Director at Indium, a healthcare focused investment banking advisory firm. Based in Bengaluru, Nitish has advised on domestic and cross border M&A as well as equity fund raising transactions across all segments of healthcare including large hospital chains, single speciality formats (maternity, IVF, etc), diagnostics, medical devices, and healthcare-tech with a cumulative experience of evaluating over 35+ deals in healthcare.

Nitish has had over 17 years of leadership experience in the past across Allegro Capital, GE Capital & Genpact. He is an engineer from IIT, BHU and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta.

Nitin specializes in Public and Private, Mergers & Acquisitions, including De-mergers, Business-Restructuring, Asset & Share Purchase deals, Joint Ventures and Strategic alliances, Private Equity and General Corporate advisory.

Nitin has a vast experience with transactions related to Foreign Direct Investments & Exchange Controls Regulations. He has advised several multinational companies on financial & technical collaborations in India, and strategies / options for commencing operations & consolidations in India, in a cross section of industries including Construction & Engineering, Pharma, Education, Manufacturing Consumer & Industrial Products. He is known for offering practical and solution-oriented business advice to clients. He is a keen observer of the evolution of the law regulating Takeovers in India. He has been part of several high profile corporate takeover battles including, defending hostile bids.

Nitin also has extensive experience in Private Equity transactions including leveraged buyout transactions & exits. He has provided strategic advice to a variety of companies receiving Private Equity investment.  Prior to joining JSA, Nitin was a Partner with Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. Prior thereto, he worked with Crawford Bayley & Co. as a Senior Associate. Nitin is a frequent speaker at several conferences and seminars organized by leading industry, institutions, and chambers on subjects like, Takeover Code, M&A, and structuring of Joint Ventures.

He was member of the International Bar Association – Anti-trust section & India Advisory Group. Currently, Nitin is a member of the Executive Committee of the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce & a Member of the Managing Council of the Chamber of Tax Consultants.

Dr. Om Manchanda is the Chief Executive Officer of Dr Lal PathLabs Ltd. He is alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad. Om has over 26 years of work experience. After graduating from the IIMA in June 1990, Om joined Unilever Group Companies (now Hindustan Unilever) as a management trainee. He worked for HUL for nearly 10 years in various positions such as Area Sales Manager, Innovation Manager - Beverages, Senior Brand Manager and Business Manager.

After HUL, he moved to an American company Monsanto India Limited as their National Marketing Manager and thereafter as their National Sales Manager in 1999. Early 2003, He joined Ranbaxy Laboratory Limited in their Global Consumer Healthcare Division and worked initially as General Manager - Marketing and then General Manager - International & Innovation before joining Dr Lal Pathlabs in October 2005.

He has successfully led the transformation of Dr Lal PathLabs in the last 11 years from a family run business to a professionally run listed company. In Dec. 2015, Dr Lal Pathlabs had a blockbuster listing on National Stock Exchange.

Om is the recipient of many awards. Notable ones are CAME innovation awards in HUL, Achiever of the Year Award in 2014, presented by CEO India as a part of CEO Awards 2014. Also the finalist in EY entrepreneur of the year 2015 awards.

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Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni is a cardiologist who turned into a venture capitalist, to be a part of the healthcare innovation story.

His current focus on investments in the healthcare world, mainly digital health and medical devices. Prior to Endiya, at Ventureast, he invested in companies like OneBreath which is into mechanical ventilation and SmartRx, an innovator in mobile engagement platforms for healthcare. Dr. Ramesh is also an angel investor with Nephroplus, India’s largest chain of dialysis clinics.

In his early years, Dr. Ramesh was Chief of Cardiology and Founder of Medwin Hospital. He did his post-graduation in Internal Medicine, postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiology from PGI, Chandigarh, and Interventional Cardiology Fellowship from University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA. He was also adjudged the Best Outgoing Student from the University of Alabama.

Entrepreneurship and innovation always spurred Dr. Ramesh, leading him to be the President of TiE Hyderabad for four years. He is also the Founding Director of Hyderabad Angels.

When he is not mentoring, coaching and guiding entrepreneurs, Dr. Ramesh spends his available time in social ventures. He is a Founding Chairperson of the Hyderabad 10k run and a Board Member of United Way Hyderabad.

Dr. Rana Mehta has leads the Healthcare Advisory at PwC. His extensive client experience, which includes some of the largest integrated health systems and payers in the Asia, Middle East and Africa has allowed him to pioneer innovative solutions that improve quality and cost for all stakeholders in the delivery system – patients, providers and payers.

Ritu Verma is one of the co-founders at Ankur. She is passionate about bringing innovation from lab to the market and did that for a decade across corporates - Unilever and Philips. She has also worked globally investing in IP led renewable technologies. She has a PhD in physics from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from INSEAD. If Ritu had any spare time she’d love to travel to all ends of the earth and read a few books.

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Rohit M A is the co-founder and Managing Director of Cloudnine Group of Hospitals- India’s leading chain of maternity, women and child care service hospitals. Rohit has played a crucial role in the establishment and growth of the company and expanded operations from a single hospital in South Bangalore to other locations in Bangalore and now a multicity-chain across Chennai, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Navi Mumbai, Chandigarh, Delhi with more than 18 units and in the pursuit to setup 10 more units in the coming years.

As Managing Director, Rohit currently oversees and is actively involved in several core areas of Cloudnine including strategy, digital revolution, public relations, employee engagement and with critical focus on expansion of presence and development of new business models for the company. He has also led and managed the entire gambit of professionalizing the company and attracting top talents who form the core team of Cloudnine and also been responsible for leading the entire journey and stake holder management of private equity investors and has attracted investments of over 100 million dollars through marquee investors, in the likes of Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and TrueNorth (previously IVFA) having invested in to the company.

Rohit has graduated from IIMB specializing in Entrepreneurship and with over 18 years of entrepreneurial experience, he also cofounded “Capier Investments” to invest in young startups across various sectors and thus far invested in over 7 companies and with the purpose of enabling more of them in the future.

Rohit has been awarded and commended with many accolades and also brought in several national and international recognition and laurels to the company through the various achievements and helped catapult brand Cloudnine. Amongst many such accolades, he was conferred with “Dynamic Entrepreneur of the Year 2016” through Entrepreneur India Network, featured as Icons of New India on CNBC TV18, one of the Hottest Young Entrepreneur in India, 2016 through Business World Magazine, listed amongst the top 100 customer service professionals through CX100.

Rohit started SigTuple along with Apurv and Tatha in July 2015. He is responsible for product evangelism, operations, strategy and partnerships in SigTuple. Rohit is a technology enthusiast who enjoys challenging tasks. He is passionate about delivering value powered by technology. Prior to starting SigTuple, Rohit was Director of the Big Data Platform Engineering team in AmEx Big Data Labs. He was responsible for the development of Big Data Platform and delivery of intelligent data products for AmEx customers.

Rohit has rich experience in building strong tech teams, delivery of large scale systems powered by machine learning and big data. Rohit has earned a masters degree in Information Technology from IIIT Bangalore in 2007.

Rushank has over 10 years of private equity investment experience. At ICICI Venture he handles investments in the Life sciences and Logistics practice. His private equity experience has spanned from turning around startups, identifying innovative investment opportunities, investing in growth opportunities and executing successful exits. At ICICI Venture, he has been involved in all their healthcare investments (5 hospital groups: KIMS Hospitals - Hyderabad, Medica Synergie – Kolkata, Sahyadri – Pune, Vikram Hospital – Bangalore and R G Stone Urology), 4 in the Pharma space (2 tie-ups with Dr Reddy's Laboratories [amongst the top Pharma companies globally], Malladi [A research based company which is India’s largest manufacturer of Pseudoephedrine Hcl] and JV with Wockhardt [(amongst the top Pharma companies in India]).

Prior to joining ICICI Venture, he has worked with the Aditya Birla Group, one of India’s leading conglomerates, in their Corporate Finance Department, focusing on M&A. He has also worked with Pfizer India in their Strategic Planning and Business Development department where he was involved in M&A, corporate strategy and commercialization alliances.

Sameer is the Chief Executive Officer at Southend Fertility & IVF. He joined the organization in 2012 and is one of the key pillars of Southend Fertility and IVF, Sameer has not only managed, but also exceled in multiple roles and responsibilities. As the CEO at Southend Fertility and IVF, he has always been a bridge between patients, consultants, management and operational staff at the centres. With a forward-looking approach, he has helped Southend become one of the renowned IVF and Fertility centers in North India. Sameer previously worked with Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ division where he managed multiple processes across various regions. He pursued his B Eng. from University of Sussex, UK.

Sandeep Chaudhury is one of the co-founders of ADOHM and also leads it's in-house technology and innovation team. An entrepreneur from an early age, he has also founded a successful digital marketing agency - Nikulsan Technologies . He has over 8 years of experience in the fields of technology, consulting and online marketing across Healthcare, IT and Digital marketing domains. He brings in his expertise to drive the company's vision, strategy and growth today.

Sandeep started his career being a Director in one of the multi-speciality hospitals in Faridabad, thereafter associated with Wipro as Business Analyst. His special interests in online marketing and his believe in propagating ideas, had lead him to become an entrepreneur. His digital marketing establishment was set-up in 2010 with the objectives to disrupt the traditional agency model and help brands to integrate new technologies and media to better excel in the digital online world. He founded an adtech company - ADOHM which began it's groundbreaking work in 2015 with the sole mission to work towards simplifying the complexities of modern marketing by using Artificial Intelligence.

He believes in the potentials of artificial intelligence and wants to make it accessible to brands across industries to run more smarter and successful marketing campaigns.

Sandeep is co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners.

Sandeep has been an entrepreneur and a pioneer of Venture Capital in India. He was co-founder & CEO of Medusind Solutions, one of the leading healthcare outsourcing companies in India. He also was the co-founder of eVentures India, a leading venture firm focused on early stage ventures in India. Several of his earlier investments have had successful exits, including CustomerAsset (acquired by Firstsource), Mentorix Solutions (acquired by Lionbridge), Intigma (acquired by Emptoris), and MakeMyTrip (sale to SAIF Partners). Sandeep has also held senior roles at McKinsey & Company, Digital Equipment and EDA Systems.

Sandeep has an MBA (with Distinction) from The Wharton School with a dual Major in Finance and Marketing, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is on the Board of TiE Mumbai, and is actively involved with the Entrepreneurs Organization and the Wharton and Stanford India Alumni Associations. 

Satish joined True North in 2006 and is based in Bengaluru, where he works with True North companies across many industries including media, healthcare and industrials handling special focus areas in each sector.A Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Chennai, and a holder of a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Kolkata, Satish was earlier closely involved with Indian pharmaceutical and consumer goods companies at Accenture. Prior to that, he worked with JP Morgan's India equity research team and Tata Motors.

Satish is a founding partner of DSK Legal with more than 30 years of rich experience in advising various multinational and domestic companies and funds across sectors and negotiating many complex commercial transactions relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, strategic alliances and joint ventures.

He brings  a very deep understanding of the Indian market and the legal and regulatory regime that governs it, having previously worked for more than a decade  as a partner with a leading domestic law firm as well as an international accounting firm in its tax and business advisory practice. His counsel is regularly sought by Fortune 500 companies and large domestic conglomerates on their Indian operations.

Satish’s  diverse sectoral experience is unmatched in the profession, having advised private equity funds and investee companies in power, education, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, financial services, microfinance, and transportation.

Shashank is responsible for the overall vision and direction of Practo while maintaining an active role in building Practo’s game changing products. He started Practo in 2008 when he discovered that there was a profound need to transform the healthcare industry and center it around the patient – he calls this approach ‘Patient First’ and this is one of the guiding lights for all decisions at Practo.

He’s put Practo on a mission to help improve human health and longevity and visualizes a patient friendly healthcare ecosystem enabled by Practo where patients and doctors are seamlessly connected with a secure and easy flow of health information. He wants Practo to be “Your health app”. The only app you need for any healthcare related activity.

Over the past several years, he has built Practo into a company that touches millions of lives in multiple cities and countries every month, by helping them make better healthcare decisions.

Shashank has a B.Tech from the prestigious NIT, Surathkal and is a founder circle member of iSPIRT, a think tank for the Indian software industry. Shashank has been featured in the ‘30 under 30’ list of young influential people to watch by Forbes in 2015 and has recently been listed in Fortune’s 40 under 40 (2017) most promising businesses in India.

Dr. Shravan Subramanyam is Managing Director for Roche Diagnostics India & Neighboring Markets, comprising Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. Dr. Subramanyam joins Roche with over 15 years of corporate healthcare experience. A physician, with a passion for diagnostics, he is particularly keen on exploring ‘personalized healthcare’, with the goal of providing the right treatment for the right group of patients.

His career spans leadership roles in global healthcare organisations, including Novartis Oncology (New Jersey, USA), Novartis Diagnostics (Hong Kong) and Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics (USA & India). He also briefly managed Ehrlich Laboratory, a private diagnostic center based in Chennai, India. In addition to a degree in medicine from Madras Medical College, Dr. Subramanyam also holds a Masters’ degree in Health Administration at Cornell University, where he served on the alumni board.

At Roche Diagnostics India, he is keen to consistently bring alive Roche’s global philosophy of ‘Doing Now What Patients Need Next’. Roche’s diagnostics solutions in India spans screening to diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of disease areas including cancer, women’s health, blood safety and cardio-vascular, thereby addressing the diagnostic needs to almost all of India’s key health focus areas.

Siddharth Dhondiyal, is an experienced healthcare investor. Currently he is an independent buy side advisor and an  IC member of growX Ventures. Till recently he was a Managing Director with Truenorth where over the last 11 years Siddharth has focused on tracking the evolution and growth of the Indian healthcare sector and has been actively involved in Truenorth'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.

Srini is director (partner) at Peepul Capital which an India focused growth stage private equity fund with about $700 million under management.

Over his 25 years of professional career in financial services, Srini spent close to two decades in Private Equity in India and abroad. Being among the early professionals in Indian Private Equity industry, Srini has been closely associated with multiple marquee investments over the years. He led the early notable investments in education (Career Launcher), mobile telecom (BPL Cellular), power (Kondapalli Power) and web businesses (Netkraft) among others. Srini was among the founding team of CDC private equity operations in India (now called ACTIS) and Director of Intel Capital South Asia operations.

Srini was instrumental in setting up and running the fund management operations of Thomas Weisel Partners in India as its founding head of investments. Just before Peepul Capital, Srini built and managed the Indian operations of Lightspeed Ventures Partners as its founding Managing Director.

Sumit joined TRUE NORTH in 2016 and is based out of Mumbai. He is closely involved in supporting and building TRUE NORTH companies across different sectors including healthcare, consumer goods, industrial services, etc. He is a Mechanical Engineer from Pune and has a Post Graduate Diploma from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. Prior to joining TRUE NORTH, Sumit was a Principal with Bain & Co. where he supported several domestic & multinational firms across sectors including industrial goods & services, textiles, chemicals, infrastructure, health care, consumer goods dealing with growth strategies, operational efficiency, cost reduction, organization effectiveness, etc. Before Bain, he helped set up an engine manufacturing plant for the Kirloskar Group and implement lean systems across their operations. Earlier, he worked with J&J Medical, where he managed the sales of cardiac devices.

Tushar Vashisht is the Co-founder and CEO of HealthifyMe, India's leading digital fitness startup that has helped over 3 million Indians become healthier and fitter. Under his leadership, HealthifyMe has become a preferred Wellness partner for India's leading Corporates, HealthifyMe app has been chosen as Google Play’s “Best Apps of 2016”, and the Company has received more than $7 million in funding, Before HealthifyMe, Tushar worked in the Unique ID Authority (Aadhaar) with the Government of India for nearly two years. Tushar started his career as an investment banker on Wall Street and in the Bay Area before moving to Singapore with Deutsche Bank. He is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and a passionate musician by hobby.

Vaibhav has more than 20 years of diversified experience in building new businesses across Industries such as healthcare, business process outsourcing, technology and supply chain management. As a key member of the leadership team since Portea’s inception, Vaibhav has been instrumental in driving several innovations such as point-of-care and remote monitoring of patients, a customer engagement programme (an industry-first in home healthcare), diseases-specific offerings etc. Portea, which was named ‘Startup of the Year’ in the 2016 NDTV Unicorn Awards in the Health-Tech category, and ‘Emerging Health Brand of the Year’ at the India Health Summit & Awards, has 4000+ employees and operations across 16 cities in India and brings in-home to patients, the full range of geriatric, chronic, post-operative care as well as allied healthcare services that are affordable and convenient to access.

Vaibhav is an accomplished speaker and has also published numerous papers and articles with many leading publications over the years. He has been actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship and serves on Advisory Board for many start-ups. Vaibhav is a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur and a MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Vishal Bali brings with him 24 years of experience in building and leading global healthcare delivery organizations through organic and M&A driven strategic growth initiatives across Asia Pacific. His experience of managing a billion dollar integrated healthcare delivery organisation comprising Hospitals, Diagnostics, Primary Care and Daycare Speciality in diversified geographies of India, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, SriLanka and Dubai has given him the exceptional opportunity to transform healthcare businesses in both developing and developed countries.

Vishal is currently Asia Head - Healthcare , TPG Growth which is amongst the leading private equity firms globally. He is also Co -founder & Chairman of Medwell Ventures, India.

Prior to his current assignment Vishal was the Group CEO for Fortis Healthcare Limited which is the leading provider of healthcare services in India with a network of 68 hospitals and had earlier built Asia's leading integrated healthcare delivery system with presence across 12 countries and a human capital base of more than 20000 people. His earlier roles also include CEO for Fortis Healthcare International in Singapore and CEO for Fortis Hospitals in India. His past assignment also includes spearheading the growth and transformation of Wockhardt Hospitals from a single hospital to one of India’s largest speciality hospital chains as its CEO & Managing Director. Vishal has successfully led post merger integration and divestments of multiple healthcare delivery assets in different countries. His expertise in integrating healthcare strategy with operations and management has set industry benchmarks. Vishal completed his Bachelors in Science and Post graduation in Business from Bombay University and completed an advance program in hospital management from Harvard Medical, 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 a past member of 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 include case studies at the Harvard Business School. He is an active member of various Industry bodies and globally recognized industry public speaker. Vishal Co-Chairs Healthcare Services for Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.

Vikram Vuppala is Founder & CEO of India’s largest dialysis network - NephroPlus. After spending 10 years in the US healthcare industry, his passion to redefine healthcare delivery in India prompted him to found NephroPlus in Dec 2009. He has expanded NephroPlus to India’s largest dialysis network of 120 centers in 78 cities across 18 states. He had raised Series A Private equity investment of Rs. 25 Cr from Bessemer Venture Partners in Nov 2011, Series B investment of Rs. 60 Cr in May 2014 from IFC, a World Bank arm, and Series C investment of Rs. 100 Cr in Aug 2016 from SeaLink Capital and IFC.

Prior to NephroPlus, Vikram was a strategy consultant at McKinsey in the US. Vikram with over 15 years of global healthcare experience has helped hospitals, chain of clinics, healthcare distributors, and pharmaceutical clients on various strategic issues such as business development, growth strategy, portfolio rationalization, and M&A.

He has been a speaker at many entrepreneurial and investment conferences. Vikram did his B. Tech. from IIT-Kharagpur and a full time MBA from Chicago Booth.

Visalakshi Chandramouli is the founding partner of Tata Capital Healthcare Fund. She has two decades of experience in healthcare private equity, equity research and pharmaceutical R & D operations. Visalakshi presently heads and drives the fund raising and investment management activities of Tata Capital Healthcare Fund. Visalakshi started her career as a research scientist at Cipla, a global pharmaceutical company, and thereafter spent over 12 years as the lead healthcare investment analyst at two leading financial services firms, Kotak Securities and Merrill Lynch.  Prior to joining Tata Capital in 2008, Visalakshi was senior director of India healthcare equity research at Merrill Lynch (India).

Visalakshi brings on board a deep experience of technical skills within the pharmaceutical industry as well as commercial and investment experience in the industry. In her previous two roles at DSP Merrill Lynch and Kotak Securities, she was involved in executing IPO/American Depository Shares ("ADS") transactions aggregating to value of c.USD 400 million for Indian pharmaceutical companies for close to a decade. In her present role, apart from sourcing and execution of private equity transactions for TCHF I, Visalakshi has been responsible for creating an ecosystem of active operating advisors and has driven value-add initiatives for TCHF I’s portfolio companies.

A visionary and an able business administrator, Dr. A. Velumani proves amply clearly to industry that, 11 Focus gives Success". Born to a landless farmer in a small village near Coimbatore, South India, today he owns and operates Thyrocare, an industry leader and a brand worth over Rs. 3000 crores. Began as a mathematician, he acquired his Ph.D in Thyroid Biochemistry from BARC / Mumbai University. He worked for 14 years in BARC as a Research Scientist and Teacher and then became an administrator in business.

He is Chairman and Managing Director of Thyrocare Technologies Limited, a pathology vertical and CEO of Nueclear Healthcare Limited which is a Radiology vertical. His focus areas are Thyroid Biochemistry, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Nuclear Chemistry and Nuclear Medicine.

An infectious motivator, he has succeeded in converting educated as employed, graduates as professionals, individuals as entrepreneurs, vendors as partners, family members as wealth creators and by his unique way, transformed intimidating problems into opportunities.

He is hilarious when it comes to educating and motivating youth in Entrepreneurship.

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