Our speakers
Dr. Praneet Kumar, Ex - CEO, Dr. B L Kapur Memorial Hospital & Practicing Consultant - Hospital & Health Services
A senior Professional - medical graduate having post-graduate qualification in Hospital Administration; and Health & Family Welfare Management; with more than 32 years of experience as Healthcare Business Manager including 7 years as clinician. Recipient of 1999 Yoshioka / Japan Hospital Fellowship of International Hospital Federation; and listed in “Pride of Rajasthan” as an outstanding achiever in healthcare sector. Bestowed with unique attributes of leadership qualities, people management skills, out of box thinking, sound analytical capability, entrepreneurial instincts, and flair for academics & research coupled with exceptional ground level execution skills to deliver good financial and operational performance consistently. Have solid grounding in different facets of health system encompassing - healthcare delivery, its organization & management, development & financing, quality & accreditation and advocacy. A frequent speaker at conferences and public fora, have published multiple articles focusing on Planning & Design of Health Facilities, Operations & Management, IT in Healthcare including Tele-Medicine, Quality & Accreditation, Health Insurance; and Globalization & its Impact on Health Sector. Regularly conducts Management Development Programmes including Leadership and Team Building Workshops.
Dr. Pratima Sheorey, Director, SCMHRD
Dr. Pratima Sheorey is the Director of Symbiosis Centre for Management and HRD Pune, India. She did her PhD from Symbiosis International University and MBA in Marketing from the University of Pune. She has more than 20 years of experience in the academic and corporate sector. She has worked in companies like ORG-MARG (now ACNielsen), the Hero Group and others in corporate sector and has been a faculty at various Institutes of Symbiosis International University (SIU). Dr. Pratima has been an invited speaker at many national and international fora through AACSB, various corporate and non - governmental organizations. She has been a regular visiting faculty at Telecom Ecole De Management, France for Marketing Management. She has worked in the area of Market Research, Training & Consulting and Business Development. She has trained executives in many organizations in India and abroad in various behavioral and functional programmers like Service Orientation, Selling Skills, Creativity and Innovation etc. across levels. She has been instrumental in guiding her students in various national and international student competitions where they have won accolades for the institution. She has published many papers in reputed journals and participated in many conferences in India and abroad.
Dr. Praveer Sinha, CEO & MD, Tata Power
Dr. Praveer Sinha has over three decades of experience in the power sector and has been credited with transforming the power distribution sector and development and setting up of greenfield and brownfield power plants in India and abroad.
Dr. Sinha holds a Master's Degree in Business Law from National Law School, Bengaluru and is also professionally trained as an Electrical Engineer. He is also a member of the Faculty Board at Faculty of Management Studies and a member of Board of Governors at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi. He is a Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and is also a visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.
Before his appointment in Tata Power, Dr. Sinha was the CEO & Managing Director of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power-DDL). Tata Power-DDL is a Public Private Partnership (Joint Venture) between the Company and Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, supplying power to over seven million people in North and North-West Delhi.
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,