Our speakers
Dr. Prem Pavoor, MD, Fidelity Growth Partners India
Prem Pavoor is a Managing Director at FIL Capital Advisors (India) Private Limited and leads investments in the life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing and agricultural inputs sectors.
Prem was previously based in the United States with McKinsey & Company’s Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Practice in New Jersey where he advised clients on areas that included R&D, business development, manufacturing optimisation and post-merger integrations.
His patented doctoral thesis work, performed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, focused on enhancing the performance of medical implants. He was awarded the MIT-OMNOVA award for Excellence in Polymer Research.
Prem holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology (formerly UDCT), Mumbai, a MS and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Practice from MIT and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
Dr. R. Kishore Kumar, CMD & Sr Consultant Neonatologist, Cloudnine (Kids Clinic India)
Dr. R. Kishore Kumar founded Cloudnine in 2007 to realize his vision of high quality maternal and neonatal healthcare in India, on par with international standards. He saw a lot of deaths during his training in India, but hardly saw any deaths during his 16 year tenure in the developed world. There also saw what the "intact" survival of a premature baby means to the parents. Hence he had this dream of providing similar care in India, and is committed to his passion for scaling new heights in neonatology. He pioneered this concept of maternal healthcare in India with Cloudnine - a facility dedicated to providing exclusive and comprehensive services in maternal and child care. As the Founding Chairman, Managing Director and senior neonatologist, he has been instrumental in securing the pinnacle attained by Cloudnine today.
In just 7 years since inception - Cloudnine has received several awards and also has scaled up from 1 centre to currently operating 6 centres and will be 11 centres by next year - clearly they have become leaders in this segment. He has been invited by MNC like GE, Accenture for motivational speeches about leadership qualities and revolutionary role in India.
Dr. Kishore is an internationally acclaimed neonatologist who has worked in four continents over the course of his career - covering North America, UK, Asia and 12 years in Australia. He completed his MBBS from India and his DCH from Mysore University and London. He also has an MD with a gold medal from Mysore University, MRCP (Paed) & FRCPCH from UK as well as MRCPI (Paed) and FRCPI from Ireland. He has also completed his Fellowship in Neonatal ICU with an FRACP from Melbourne, Australia. Among his many achievements - he says two stick out in his mind - a happy family having a premature baby surviving intact and also getting felicitated by Bill Clinton, former US President in 2006.
Dr. Raajiv Singhal, Director - Head of Healthcare Operations, The Abraaj Group | @abraajgroup
Dr. Raajiv Singhal, Managing Director and Group CEO, Marengo Asia Hospitals
As the Managing Director and Group CEO, Dr Raajiv Singhal leads investment and fundraising at Marengo Asia Hospitals, spearheading several critical initiatives contributing to the growth and impact. He is involved in meticulous due diligence, financial analysis, and engagement with potential investors. Engagement in mergers and acquisitions to expand Marengo Asia Hospitals footprints, strategize partnerships & acquisitions, and integrate the assets into existing operations. On the global stage, he is committed to forging international tie-ups and partnerships that promote knowledge exchange, collaborations, and innovations in healthcare. Dr Singhal has led domestic and international forums for discussions and initiatives that advance healthcare practices and standards worldwide.
Dr. Raajiv Singhal, Group CEO, Care Hospitals & MD - Healthcare Operations, Evercare India
- Prior to joining Evercare Group, was the Group CEO of Sakra World Hospitals, Bangalore, an Indo-Japanese joint venture.
- Vice President at Fortis Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare chains in India.
- Successfully implemented the hub and spoke model in cardiac super-specialty by establishing 20 Heart Command Centers in India, Dubai, Nepal, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
- Served in the Indian Army for 13 years as a surgeon in the toughest terrains, including Siachen, the highest battlefield in the world, and the jungles of northeast India.
A Graduate and Post Graduate of the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune and an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad, I have extensive experience of over 25 years in the healthcare industry. I have played an instrumental role in setting-up the first e-ICU concept in India and have established Hub and Spoke model for several successful Heart Command Centers in India and abroad including UAE, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
I also serve as visiting faculty for management programs at prestigious institutes like AIIMS, AFMC, and Symbiosis University of Health Sciences. I am actively associated with various Healthcare Committees such as FICCI and served as Co-Chair of the FICCI Committee on Health Insurance and member of FICCI Health Services National Committee. I was also felicitated by Governor of Karnataka for outstanding contribution for ‘Innovation in Healthcare’.
As Group CEO of CARE Hospitals, I was entrusted with the responsibility to turn around CARE group of hospitals with over 2000 beds across 12 hospitals in November 2017. Created the biggest group turnaround in Indian healthcare as Group CEO amidst harsh realities of difficult financial circumstances and severe external and internal pressures.
Conferred with “Economic times healthcare business leader award for 2018-19”
Past:
Dr. Raj Dravid, COO, IL&FS Education & Technology Services Ltd
Dr Dravid is a widely respected Management professional who had held various senior positions with a common thread of skill building, OD interventions, designing of HR Strategies and incubating start ups as major strength areas. His work experience in various roles such as consultant, Adviser and Director/VP with various blue chip companies in India and Middle East makes his profile a unique one in terms of different competencies. He had, at a corporate level worked with the entire group in devising core HR strategies and processes and he is perhaps one of the few professionals having in depth exposure to methods such as Hay's system of Job Evaluation and Dr Robert Kaplan's Balanced Scorecard having had implementation experience in both. His stints in India also include roles as OD and general management consultant with Tata Consultancy Services and Centre for Organization Development- both premier consultancy houses.
Dr Dravid has served as Managing Director of an IT offshore development center in Chennai.
The sectors that Dr.Dravid has been associated with include Fertilizers and Chemicals, Telecom, IT, Reinsurance and Apparel exports. An organizational Behavior and Training management qualification coupled with degree in Business management, Psychology and doctorate in Behavioral Sciences Dr Dravid combines academic excellence with sharp hands on style of management.
As a HR professional Dr Dravid has the unique background of handling strategic HR issues in some of the most challenging environments, design and development of HR systems and extensive training at middle and senior levels of management.
Presently Dr. Dravid works with IL&FS as Chief Operating Officer and is actively involved in skill building initiatives for the below poverty line segment. Under his leadership IL&FS has trained and placed over 200,000 youth in different verticals.
Dr. Rajdeep Manwani, Motivational Speaker,
Dr. Rajeev Gowda, Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Dr. Rajeev Gowda is Chairperson, Centre for Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His education includes an MA in Economics from Fordham University and a PhD in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and as Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma.
Professor Gowda research focuses on how people and societies manage risk. His edited books include Judgments, Decisions, and Public Policy, published by Cambridge University Press.
After his return to India Professor Gowda is actively immersed in politics and is with the Congress party. He draws on his political field work for his publications on the Indian political process.
Professor Gowda is now building the Resurgent India Trust that aims to empower youth and energize Bangalore. An avid quizzer, Dr. Gowda was national runner-up on BBC TV Mastermind India in 2001.
Dr. Rajiv Agarwal, Professor & Department Chair Strategy & Family Business, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR)
Rajiv Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, with a focus on Family Managed Businesses in India. He holds a master’s in management from S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai (SPJIMR), and has pursued ‘The Owner / President Management Programme’ from Harvard Business School.
His research and teaching expertise is in Strategy, Family Business, and Entrepreneurship. His research enthusiasm is reflected through a series of intellectual contributions in journal publications, authoring books and book chapters, periodicals, simulations, and media publications.
In his career spanning 30 years, he has held senior executive roles with organisations in the electronics industry, simultaneously pursuing his passion for teaching management education. He is a professor and chair of Strategy and Innovation at SPJIMR.
Dr. Ramesh B Byrapaneni, Managing Director, Endiya Partners | @EndiyaVC
Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni is a Cardiologist turned Venture Capitalist. Currently he is Managing Director at Endiya Partners, a venture capital fund that invests in ideas with the potential to change the world across Technology, Healthcare and Consumer Services.As a Venture Partner of Ventureast Tenet Fund, a seed-stage VC Fund consisting of investments across technology and technology-enabled sectors, he invested and is on the boards of OneBreath and SmartRx. He has been actively involved with Nephroplus, a healthcare startup, backed by funding from Bessemer.
With significant managerial and entrepreneurial experience, Dr. Ramesh brings a passion for early stage ventures, commitment to work, business acumen and a complementary rolodex. Dr. Ramesh was Chief of Cardiology and Founder of Medwin Hospital. He served as the President of TiE Hyderabad for 4 years and one of the Founding Directors of Hyderabad Angels. He has also jumpstarted various innovative initiatives like Hyderabad 10K Run (the first to start these 10K runs in the country) and Health Awareness Promotion Project India (HAPPi) Hearts project to prevent Non-communicable diseases (NCDs).