Our speakers
Dr. Sanuj K. Ravindran, MD, AsianHealthcare Fund
Dr. Sanuj K. Ravindran -Dr. Ravindran is the Managing Director of Asian Healthcare Fund (AHF), a New Delhi based PE/VC fund that invests in growth-stage healthcare and life sciences companies, primarily in India and Southeast Asia. Previously, Dr. Ravindran was a Principal of Radius Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on leading-edge health and life sciences companies; and prior to Radius, he was a Director of Burrill & Company’s venture capital group, where he also founded and led the Burrill India Group. In addition to his role with AHF, Dr. Ravindran currently serves on the Boards of Chennai based RxMD and Florida based Gyrx.
Dr. Ravindran’s prior board roles include Ambit Biosciences, Athersys, Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals, Endocyte, Proventys and diaDexus. He is a member of the Society of Kauffman Fellows and is a U.S. Board Certified physician (Internal Medicine). Dr. Ravindran received his B.A. from Northwestern University, his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College and his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was a Rothschild Scholar.
Dr. Sathyan David, Chief General Manager, DNBS, RBI
Dr. Sathyan David has joined as the Chief General Manager of Department of Non-Banking Supervision at Mumbai on December 23, 2014. In his professional career with the Reserve Bank of India spanning three decades, Dr. David was Regional Director of RBI, Jaipur and specialized in Banking Supervision and has worked in several offices of the RBI viz. Mumbai, Bangalore, Bhopal & Chennai holding senior positions in various departments of RBI viz. Department of Banking Regulation, Department of Banking Supervision, Department of Co-operative Banking Regulation & Supervision , Banking and Issue Department.
Dr. Sheriff Sahadulla, CEO, KIMS
Dr. Sheriff Sahadulla is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer for the KIMS Healthcare Group in the Middle East. Dr. Sahadulla obtained his MD from Tufts University in Boston and did his Post graduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sahadulla is American Board Certified in Internal Medicine and is also a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine.
Prior to joining KIMS, Dr. Sahadulla was based in Boston and held the position of Regional Medical Director for TEAMHealth, a National Healthcare Management Company. Dr. Sahadulla has also held the position of Medical Director and President of the Medical Staff, St. Joseph Hospital, Nashua.
Dr. Sahadulla has won numerous awards including TOP DOC by New Hampshire Magazine in 2011 and 2014, Regional VP of the year from TEAMHealth and several patient care awards.
Dr. Shuchin Bajaj, Founder and Director, Ujala Cygnus Hospitals
Dr. Shuchin Bajaj is the Founder Director of Ujala Cygnus Hospitals. Ujala Cygnus is currently operating nineteen hospitals in Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Haryana with a combined bed strength of 2000 beds and more than 2500 employees, with a vision to provide superspeciality and emergency healthcare to district towns of the states of India where no such facilities currently exist. It aims to expand to 25 hospitals with a bed strength of 2500 beds by the end of 2025.
Shuchin is a highly qualified medical scholar. After completing his MBBS from PGIMS, Rohtak, he did his Doctorate in Internal Medicines (MD) from Dr S N Medical College, Jodhpur in 2004. Apart from the foregoing, he also did Certified Professional course on Diabetes Management and Total Control from American Academy of Continuing Medical Education, USA in 2008, Advanced Program in Strategic Management from I.I.M. Calcutta in 2013 and Advanced Program in Cardiac Emergencies from Boston University in 2014.
Shuchin is a Senior fellow at the Aspen New Voices Program, Committed to making the voices of the ground level workers and changemakers being heard by the policy makers.
Dr Bajaj was the recipient of the British Government’s 2015 Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence award at King’s College London, where he spent considerable time studying the various facets of Leadership, its various challenges and its learnings for India.
He was also selected for freeship to the ‘Innovating Health for Tomorrow” Fellowship at INSEAD, France in 2017 and his project for Ambulance services was the top of the class of 40 high ranked professionals from around the world.
Shuchin is also an Aspire Fellow, a Fellowship dedicated to enlightened social leadership, held at IIM, Ahmedabad and conducted by Dr. Pradeep Khandwala, Ex Director, IIMA.
He has also completed the Elite Seed Transformation Program conducted by the Stanford Global Business School.
He is on the board of a number of national prominent NGOs as Advisor-Health Programmes and played an active part in the Helpage International’s Regional Research Initiative on Older People’s Health as the Academic partner of the International Health Working Group in 2008, as well as being part of the Healthcare Track for Xynteo’s India2022 coalition.
In addition to numerous other awards and accolades, Shuchin has received the “World Wide Achievers Health Care Excellence Award 2014” for Healthcare Excellence in Internal Medicine in Delhi and NCR, ”Best Consultant in Internal Medicine in Delhi 2012” by the Time Research Media Foundation, “National Award for Excellence in Healthcare 2015” for fastest growing healthcare chain in North India along with “2015 Leaders Award”. In the past Dr. Bajaj has also received “Stars of the Industry Healthcare Awards” for excellence in managing tertiary healthcare centers in Tier-II towns, “4th MT India Healthcare Awards” for most promising healthcare chain of India, Most Promising Healthcare Brand and Best Upcoming Hospital Chain, amongst others. Dr Bajaj and the Cygnus Team were featured by the Economic Times in a feature on Entrepreneurs Leading Disruptive Change. Dr. Bajaj is also the winner the Healthcare Leader of the Year, 2017 Awards.
Shuchin is an avid Healthcare Investor and is associated with multiple Health Tech Companies as investor, Board Member and mentor. He is on the TBIU Board of FITT, IIT, Delhi and was also a member of the Advisory Council to the previous Minister of State for Health, Shri Ashwini Choubey.
Shuchin is also part of the founding team of Medpho, a Digital Health Startup that is committed to providing the highest level of high quality healthcare access to communities that are not part of the mainstream. The startup is already ensuring surgeries to hundreds of patients per month at zero out of pocket expenses.
Over the last two years, Shuchin has been fighting the war on the pandemic as a frontline warrior doing clinical work including Covid ICU duties and managing his nineteen hospitals offering covid care to thousands of patients daily. Shuchin has also been a core team member of Project StepOne, helping 21 state governments manage their Covid response ranging from helplines to home isolation management to plasma management, attending to four million patients in the process, as well as running a free 1000 bed covid hospital with the largest field ICU in the country of 308 beds in Delhi and a 100 bed free Covid Hospital in Prayagraj. Shuchin has also appeared on FM Radio leading multiple campaigns on Covid education, Vaccination, myth busting and plasma donation. He has also been very visible on TV and social media for these efforts. His Facebook profile was blue tick verified recently due to these educational activities.
Dr. Siddharth Srivastava, Partner, Khaitan & Co
Dr. Sourav Dutta, Executive Director & Head IT, IDBI Bank
Dr. Sreeni Tripuraneni, Chairman & CEO, 4G Identity Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Dr. Sreeni Tripuraneni, a vascular surgeon by training and a young entrepreneur, has a long-standing passion for applying biometric technology to uniquely identify individuals. He founded 4G Identity Solutions to design, develop and deploy large-scale identity management solutions for the fast-growing Indian market. With a focused vision to benefit mankind on a large scale, Dr. Sreeni Tripuraneni assembled and motivated an excellent team of professionals and led the company to win and execute a significant market share in India. His passion, thought leadership, in-house innovative R&D, customised total solutions and execution of world-record-setting ID projects have earned him an enviable reputation worldwide.
In many emerging countries, the benefits from public welfare schemes of governments and international bodies do not fully reach the targeted population, primarily due to duplicate and bogus identities and leakages in the supply chain. Hundreds of millions of dollars are thus wasted, while the targeted populations continue to suffer. Dr. Sreeni Tripuraneni made it his mission to mitigate this set of challenges, and he conceptualized, produced and successfully implemented the world's largest citizen unique ID data base, and an end-to-end fool-proof distribution system. The resultant good governance has won him accolades from governments and international bodies.
Dr. Sridhar Mitta, Managing Director, NextWealth Entrepreneurs Pvt Ltd
Dr. Sridhar Mitta, aged 63 years, is the Managing Director and Founder of NextWealth Entrepreneurs Private Limited, Bangalore, India, which promotes Social Entrepreneurship. NextWealth identifies business opportunities with a social intent and helps entrepreneurs to build commercial ventures by providing them with angel funding, mentoring, incubation etc. NextWealth is currently setting up multiple Rural Centers to create 10,000 jobs for rural graduates reversing the trend of their migration to cities. The business model provides value to rural graduates, customers and NextWealth.
Dr. Mitta is also the Managing Director of e4e India. e4e India is part of e4e Inc. whose vision is to add business value to its customers through technology services. Today, e4e is a global company with annual revenues of over US$ 80 millions.
Dr. Mitta was the First Employee at Wipro Limited Information Technology business since its inception in 1980 and played key role in Wipro achieving technology leadership. As its Chief Technology Officer and President of 'Wipro's Global R&D', he spearheaded strategies which transformed the captive R&D unit into a profitable business. He pioneered global delivery of outsourced product development services to technology companies like Intel, Cisco Systems, Tandem Computers etc. Wipro became the highest valued company in India during his tenure. Wipro R&D received 'Award of Excellence in Electronics' from Government of India for five years in a row. Wipro earned coveted CMM Level V software quality certification under his leadership.
Dr. Mitta was also the Founder and CEO of EnThink Inc., an Intellectual Property design and licensing start-up located in silicon valley. He began his career with Electronics Corporation of India, Ltd, Hyderabad.
Dr. Mitta is very passionate about promoting entrepreneurship as entrepreneurs create wealth disproportionate to available resources by taking calculated risks. He is associated with The IndUs Entrepreneurs (TiE) which fosters entrepreneurship globally, for over a decade. He was President of TiE Bangalore Chapter for over four years and was elected to Board of Trustees of TiE Global. He is also advisor to several venture capital organizations including IDG Ventures, Inventus and Kitven. He mentors many young companies.
Dr. Mitta serves in several Boards of companies located in the United States and India, including e4e Inc., TVS Capital and TVS Electronics.
Dr. Mitta holds a PhD and MS from Oklahoma State University, US ;He has been inducted into CEAT Hall of Fame Oklahoma State University; an M Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur; and an undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Andhra University. He is Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Sujit Chatterjee, CEO, Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital
Dr. Suryanil (Shurjo) Ghosh, Co-Founder and Chief Mentor, TotalinX
Dr Suryanil (Shurjo) Ghosh, is the chief mentor and the founder of Group of Companies. He is a well known figure in the IT Industry having served the industry for over 2 decades. He is also closely associated with premier Universities and Business Schools around the globe for his interest to contribute in talent building in Academia which will serve the Industry.
He has also served top notch IT and Consulting Services Companies around the globe in leadership roles in his career spanning over 2 decades. He provides the strategic leadership to the company across all corporate affairs.