Our speakers
Dr. Aparna Hegde, Founder, Chairperson and Managing Trustee, Armman India
Dr Aparna Hegde is the Founder, Chairperson and Managing Trustee of ARMMAN, a Mumbai-based nonprofit dedicated to the wellbeing of mothers and children under the age five. ARMMAN’s projects make innovative use of mobile technology to maximize outreach and achieve scale and have impacted more than 6 lakh lives. Dr. Hegde is also one of the very few fellowship trained urogynecologists in the country. She is the Co-Founder and Director of UPHI (Urogynecology and Pelvic Health Institute), a tertiary, clinical and academic centre of excellence in Urogynecology and Pelvic reconstructive surgery in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, India. She was awarded a two year IUGA (International Urogynecological Association) fellowship which she completed in the prestigious department of Urogynecology at Cleveland Clinic Florida. She is an accomplished researcher with a master’s degree from Stanford University and is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Urogynecology Journal and the Education Committee of the IUGA. She is invited internationally to speak on her research in multicompartment imaging of the pelvic floor.
Dr. Hegde is a TEDx speaker and was also featured as one of the five global women leaders featured in the 2015 Voice of America documentary, “A Single Step: Journeys of Women Leaders” narrated by Academy award winning actress Sally Field.
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Dr. Archana Hingorani, CEO & Executive Director, IL&FS Investment Managers Limited
Dr. Archana Hingorani has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services business, teaching and research. Her focus has been on private equity, project finance and financial structuring with a specialization in infrastructure, manufacturing and real estate. She has worked on some of the pioneering private finance transactions in India and has participated in negotiating and structuring project contracts, especially in the real estate and infrastructure sector and has overseen investments with an aggregate capitalization value in excess of US$ 15 bn. Dr Hingorani is a member of the India CEO Forum, affiliated with International Market Assessment Asia (IMA), YPO Gold and the first international Board Member from India on the Business Alumni Association Board of Directors of the University of Pittsburgh. She is a member of the United Nations Environment Programme, Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), a member of its Global Steering Committee, and a Co-Chair of the Finance Commission. Dr Hingorani is also a member of the Advisory Council, Asia Council and the Energy and Infrastructure Council of Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) and a member of the SuRe Stakeholder Council, Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation.
Dr. Archana Hingorani holds a PhD in Corporate Finance and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Dr. Arjun Kalyanpur, Founder & CEO, Tele Radiology
Dr. Arjun Kalyanpur is CEO of Teleradiology Solutions, a healthcare Company headquartered in Bangalore, that reports radiology scans for over 100 hospitals in the US, Singapore, India, Europe and Africa. Teleradiology Solutions was ranked the number 1 teleradiology company in the US for 2011 and awarded the title of “Best in KLAS”. It is the first organization outside Singapore to be accredited by the Ministry of Health, Singapore, and was showcased to President Obama on his visit to India in 2010. The organization also has a software company, TeleradTech, a not-for-profit division, The Telerad Foundation and a teaching website, www.radguru.net.
He was trained at AIIMS, New Delhi, Cornell University Medical Center and Yale University in the US. He is visiting faculty in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Yale University. He is an active member of the Radiologic Society of North America and the Indian Radiology and Imaging Association and is a reviewer for the journal Emergency Radiology. He was awarded Modern Medicare’s Entrepreneur of the year award in 2007 and was named one of the 50 pathfinders in Healthcare in India by Express Healthcare magazine.
Dr. Arjun Rao, Founder & CEO, Syncremedies Healthcare Pvt Ltd | @arjuncrao
Dr. Rao studied medicine in Davangere, followed by surgical training at St John's Hospital (Bangalore) and Apollo Hospital (Chennai). After getting his MBA in Boston, he led initiatives to improve the quality of care and clinical effectiveness at pioneer institutions like Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Stanford Hospital in California. Syncremedies is his earnest effort to find all the knowledge that is out there and bring it to the patient.
Dr. Arun Anand, COO, Immuneel Therapeutics
Physician Business Leader with experience in strategic roles across the value chain in biotech drug development and business on a background in translational oncology from Harvard. Passionate about “accessible medicine for all”.
Currently, Chief Operating Officer at Immuneel Therapeutics - a young Indian organisation driven by the purpose of developing and delivering cutting edge yet affordable cell and gene therapies for cancer in India.
Previously, served leadership roles in Industry and academia as Senior Director & Head, Global Portfolio Management, Biologics @ Dr. Reddy’s, Head, Clinical Development @ Biocon, and Assistant Director, Translational Research for Oncology at MGH/Harvard, Boston.
Dr. Ashita Aggarwal, Professor and Head Marketing, SPJIMR
Dr. Ashita is an economics graduate from Delhi University, an MBA (gold medalist) and holds a Master’s degree with specialization in marketing. She is a doctorate in the area of marketing. Her research topic was "Communication for Brand Building- A case of Indian Business Schools", which was one of the pioneering works done in India.
She has also attended an Executive Management Program on Branding- Creating, building and rejuvenating your brands at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA
Her teaching areas are brand management and marketing communications and her research interest is in the domain of consumer-brand relationships. She is also a key team member and the initiator of SPJIMR rebranding process.
Dr. Ashita has over 16 years of corporate and academic experience. She has worked in Business & Marketing Strategy at Reliance Communications, Branding and Communications area in education sector and has consulted education institutions and consumer brands in the area of consumer insight and brand relationship management. She has 6 years of industry experience and approx. 11 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Ashita has conducted several training programs for government and non-governmental organizations in branding and communications.
Consulted FMCG companies like Me & Mom, Cargill (among many others) on consumer understanding, product innovations, Socio cultural interventions that affect marketing strategy.
Consulted Rahat Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd. on their branding strategy. Prepared marketing material, brand logo and other promotional material for R's World- a shopping mall under Rahat Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd. In Ghaziabad, UP
Consulted NGOs like Sahaara, ICMH and United Way on Brand Building and Communication
Dr. Ashita Aggarwal has written many award-winning case studies, which are circulated through Harvard Business Publishing. Some are even the best sellers in their respective areas. She has researched and presented papers on branding of education and building consumer-brand relationships.
Dr. Ashita is extensively quoted by business and brand publications and is a regular writer in these publications.
Dr. Ashwin Naik, Founder & Director, Vaatsalya Healthcare
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. Atul Kapoor, Managing Director, Regency Hospital Ltd.
Dr. Kapoor is the Founder and Managing Director of Regency Hospital Ltd and a qualified Surgeon having done his Masters in General Surgery from GSVM Medical
College, Kanpur. He had an excellent academic career having held numerous positions in MBBS and was awarded honors virtually in every subject with Gold Medals in Physiology, Medicines, Surgery, Obs. & Gynecology, and Ophthalmology. Having special interest in surgery, he joined the Department of Surgery at GSVM Medical College to do his Masters in the subject.
He worked as a Resident Surgeon and demonstrator in the department of Surgery till 1984 and after completing his MS Surgery, left Kanpur to join the prestigious Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital at New Delhi as a Senior Registrar in Surgery. He worked in this hospital for approximately one year and during this period gained wide surgical experience. During his brief stay at Delhi, he decided to establish a multi specialty corporate hospital in Kanpur. An objective of bringing international standard of healthcare within the reach of common man in Uttar Pradesh was achieved with commissioning of Regency Hospital Ltd. in the state industrial capital, Kanpur a few years back. Ever since its establishment, the super specialty corporate hospital never looked back in bringing high quality medical services here.
Dr. Avadhut Parab, Chief Information Officer, Parle Agro
Dr. Avadhut Parab, CIO, Parle Agro Ltd.