Our speakers
Dr. Kshama Fernandes, MD & CEO, Northern Arc Capital
Dr. Kshama Fernandes is the Managing Director and CEO of the Company and oversees the overall management of the Company. She was appointed to the Board with effect from August 1, 2012 and was most recently re-appointed as Managing Director for a period of three years with effect from April 1, 2020. She holds a bachelor’s degree in science from Goa University, and a master’s degree as a well as a PhD in management studies from Goa University. She has over 25 years of experience spanning across management, risk advisory and academia. Dr. Fernandes is a financial risk manager certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Prior to joining the company, she was a professor at the Goa Institute of Management. She has also served as Northern Arc’s chief risk officer from 2009 to 2012.
Dr. Kunal Sehgal, Managing Director and Chief Pathologist, Neuberg Sehgal Pathlab
Dr. Kunal Sehgal is a Hematopathologist and Flow Cytometrist and currently is Managing Director and Chief Pathologist, Neuberg Sehgal Pathlab. He received his M.D. in Pathology from PGIMER Chandigarh and was awarded the gold medal for the best student of the university during his course. He worked as a fellow and senior resident in the Hematopathology laboratory at Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), Mumbai. He has been awarded the UICC ICRETT AUF Fellowship during which he worked at the flowcytometry laboratories at John Hopkins University, Baltimore and at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle –USA. He also worked as a Consultant in the Hematology Laboratory at PD Hinduja National Hospital, Mumbai from 2011-2015.
His main areas of interest are in the field of flow cytometry and newer parameters on CBC instruments. He has been actively involved in the development and standardization of six & eight color immunophenotyping at Hinduja Hospital and Tata Memorial Hospital. He has actively participated in various flowcytometry associated projects and training courses held at Hinduja and TMH and as part of the The Cytometry Society-India and INDO US conferences. He has presented papers at both national and international conferences. He is a certified NABL auditor for hematology and clinical pathology. He is a life member and Joint secretary of The Cytometry Society of India, and member of Mumbai Hematology Group and Indian Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine.
Dr. Lalit Khaitan, Chairman & MD, RadicoKhaitan
- Chairman, U.P. Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Senior Member, Managing Committee, ASSOCHAM
- Member, Managing Committee, All India Distillers Association
- Member, Managing Committee, U.P. Distillers Association
- Member of the Standing Committee of PHD Chamber
- Chairman, Northern Region Development Council, ASSOCHAM
A veteran with over 50 years of experience, Dr. Khaitan, is one of the pioneers in the Indian spirits industry. He provides the overall strategic direction to Radico Khaitan. He has been instrumental in improving quality standards and enhancing customer satisfaction, leading to substantial revenue growth and increased market shares. In the process, he has succeeded in transforming Radico Khaitan from a bottler to a leading IMFL player in India. His unique management style has helped maintain Radico as an ethical and transparent organisation with highest corporate governance standards.
Dr. Khaitan has been widely recognised for his contribution to the liquor industry. He has been associated with a number of developmental projects, has represented India with several international delegations, and is involved in social & educational activities across India. He is currently:
He has received the lifetime achievement award from the Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies in 2005 and by Alcobev in 2008. Most recently he has been awarded the ‘Legend of the Industry’ at Spiritz 2014.
Dr. Lopa Mudra Basu, Advisor - Government Affairs Advisory Council, Cloud Security Alliance
Dr. M K Khanduja, CMD, BSR Super Specialty Hospitals Ltd
Dr. Khanduja Chairman and Managing Director BSR Healthcare is a career Pediatrician of twenty five years experience and ventured to become an entrepreneur sixteen years back. BSR Healthcare runs 8 high end Diagnostic centers across Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and West Bengal. And 175 bedded “Apollo BSR Hospitals” located at Bhilai. Group aims to expand BSR healthcare as a chain of hospitals and diagnostic center on a pan - India level. BSR is presently expanding in medical diagnostic with another 10 centers as well as hospital business by way of two Specialty Hospitals.
Dr. M. Vidyasagar, Director, Association for Biotechnology Led Enterprises
Dr. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar was born in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on 29 September 1947. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Wisconsin, in 1965, 1967, and 1969, respectively. Between 1969 and 1989, he worked as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at various universities in the USA and Canada. His last overseas job was with the University of Waterloo, Canada between 1980-89.
In 1989 he returned to India as the Director of the newly-created Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), under the auspices of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Government of India. In that capacity he built up CAIR into a leading research laboratory consisting of about 40 scientists working on various cutting-edge areas such as aircraft control, robotics, neural networks, and image processing.
In 2000 he joined Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT firm, as an Executive Vice President in charge of Advanced Technology. In this capacity he created the Advanced Technology Centre (ATC), which currently consists of about 60 engineers and scientists working on e-security, advanced encryption methods, and bioinformatics.
In addition to his academic positions, he has held visiting positions at several universities including MIT, California (Berkeley), Califomia (Los Angeles), CNRS Toulouse, France; Indian Institute of Science; University of Minnesota and Tokyo Institute of Technology.
He is the author or coauthor of nine books and more than one hundred and thirty papers in archival journals. He has received several honours in recognition of his research activities including the Distinguished Service Citation from his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a Fellow of IEEE as well as the Indian Academy of Sciences; the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Third World Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Madhukar Gangadi, Founder and CEO, MedPlus Health Services
Started MedPlus in 2005 executing on a business plan written in his final semester at B-school. MedPlus under his leadership has grown to be the second largest retail chain in the country with over 1700 stores across 7 states in the country.
Dr. Gangadi has an MBBS from Kurnool Medical College and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Dr. Manish Mistry, Medical Director India & Alliances, Eli Lilly and Company
Dr. Mohammed Sayeed Rehan, Founder & Exec. Chairman, Rhea Healthcare Pvt Ltd. (Motherhood)
Dr. Mohammed Rehan Sayeed is the chairman of Motherhood Hospitals, a position he has held since he founded Motherhood India in January 2011. As the chairman of Motherhood India, he overlooks and directs all the activities across all Motherhood units, based in Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad.
Dr. Rehan received his DNB in General Surgery & Cardiothoracic from National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. He is an MD, with Fellowship in Pediatric cardiac Surgery from The Children’s Hospital of Boston Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He also holds MD, Fellowship in Heart failure Surgery & Cardiac Transplant from The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, he has a Fellowship in Adult cardiac Surgery from Boston University Medical Center, Boston, USA.
A renowned cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon, Dr. Rehan, has practiced extensively in India and abroad. He has performed over 10,000 cardiac and 4,000 thoracic surgeries. He has done over 2,000 mini bypass surgeries with 99.5% success rate, for which he was nominated to the “Robert Emory Young Innovator Award” by the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (ISMICS). He has successfully completed more than 3,000 for the entire range of minimal access cardiac surgeries, and over a 500 endoscopic heart surgeries. A pioneer in the field of hybrid cardiac surgery in India, He has extensive experience in both adult and paediatric cardiac surgery.
In addition to having performed an array of surgeries, Dr. Rehan has many firsts to his credit. He is the first doctor to do an endoscopic closure of a complex congenital heart defect (partial anomalous venous return) in the world. The first endoscopic closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) and the first hybrid coronary bypass surgery (CABG) in south India was done by Dr. Rehan. Dr. Rehan holds the credit of being the largest single surgeon series of mini bypass surgery in the world and the largest single surge on series of minimal access cardiac surgery in India.
Dr. Rehan has vast research experience in various facets of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery and has presented many papers at several national and international conferences. Besides, he has also aut hored chapters on valve surgery in major cardiac surgery textbooks. Dr. Rehan is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and the Cleveland Clinic Alumni. He is also a much sought after speaker at many national and international scientific gatherings.
Dr. Mudit Saxena, COO, HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd. | @HCGCancercare
A highly accomplished clinician with MHA and post graduation from IIM-B having over 16 years of leadership roles in Public, Trust and Corporate Sector Healthcare units.
Dr. Mudit Saxena graduated from SMS Medical College, Jaipur and he has pursued academics with Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. and Singapore Management University.
He started his career serving at primary health centres in rural Rajasthan. He later joined as the pioneering member of the first Private Medical College in that State.
He worked with 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.
He is currently associated with HCG Enterprises Ltd. as Chief Operating Officer (COO) managing the operations of the key hospitals in Karnataka, Rajasthan and MP. He has recently launched HCG Homecare Services and is involved in strategic initiatives for the Group.
Dr. Saxena has been the Chairperson and panelist for Healthcare Asia, Singapore in 2013 and 2014. He has been a keynote speaker and panelist at various National Healthcare forums. His deep and incisive knowledge of Indian Healthcare Industry is exceptional. He was felicitated at the Annual Smart Healthcare India Summit, 2015 for his Outstanding Contribution to Indian Healthcare Industry.