Founders
Dr R Venkataramanan
Venkat is the Founder and CEO of Karkinos Healthcare and an Advisor to the Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited.
Prior to founding Karkinos, Venkat spent more than 15 years with the Tata Group in various capacities. His last assignment in the Tata Group was as the Managing Trustee of the Tata Trusts where he was responsible for the operations, oversight, and co-ordination of the Trusts’ development programs worth more than USD 1B. He was instrumental in the conceptualization of the Distributed Cancer Care Network and has led the development of multiple apex cancer hospitals across the country. He was a member of the Governing Board of multiple institutions such as Tata Medical Center, TISS, IISc and TIFR. Also, he was the Executive Director and CIO of RNT Capital Advisers which was a USD 350M fund with a portfolio of 15+ investments and Co-Founder of Avanti Finance – a new age fin-tech enterprise for financial inclusion. For several years, he served as an Executive Assistant to Mr. Ratan Tata, the former Chairman of the Tata Group where he was a part of several significant projects including the Tata Motors acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover, launch of the small car Nano and creation of several Joint Ventures. Prior to this, Venkat served as Head of Business Support at the Qatar Foundation, Doha, and Tata Communications.
Venkat is a Science and a Law graduate and has done his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Sri Satya Sai University, Puttaparthi. He has completed his Doctorate in Engineering (EngD) from WMG, University of Warwick, UK on the role of Technology in Health Care Systems. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School
Venkat is a member of Governing Council of Jio Institute, a multi-disciplinary higher education institute of eminence.
Dr R Venkataramanan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Karkinos Healthcare
Ravi Kant
Ravi Kant has over 50 years of experience in diverse companies. He was the Vice Chairman and the CEO/ Managing Director of Tata Motors which grew from $1.5Bn to $39Bn in 15 years. He led the acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Earlier he was the Director of Consumer Electronics at Philips India; Director of Marketing at LML Vespa Ltd., the First Vice President of Marketing at Titan Watches Ltd and held positions in Hawkins and Hindalco. He served as the President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers.
Previously, he acted as chairman and director of several Tata companies in India and abroad. He served as Chairman at Tata Advanced Materials Limited. He also serves as the Non-Executive Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors Limited.
He is currently contributing as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital – a unit of Yugrishi Shriram Sharma Acharya Charitable Trust which is the largest Eye hospital in Eastern India working towards eradicating curable blindness from low-income regions and empower rural under privileged women to achieve this.
- Former Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Tata Motors
- Member of the Board, Kone Ltd, Helsinki
- Chairman Advisory Board, MedTherapy India and Akhandjyoti India
- Distinguished professor, IIT Kharagpur
- Visiting leader, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai
Ravi Kant
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Chairman
Sundar Raman
Sundar is an independent advisor and management consultant with 25 + years of experience in business spanning marketing, advertising, Entertainment and sports.
He is currently a Director at Reliance Foundation Youth Sports. He was the Chief Operating Office of the Indian Premier League (IPL) since inception in 2008 credited with building India’s largest sports start up in IPL and bringing BCCI to centerstage in world cricket. During his leadership stint at BCCI he managed revenue growth enabling BCCI to become the richest body in world cricket. He also established and served as the CEO of Champions League – world club cricket championship From 2008,he has helped shape the growth of cricket globally and catalyse growth of professional sports in India. Sundar was instrumental in refocusing cricket and enabling it reach newer audience through innovation, use of technology and unrelenting focus on fans grounded on strong consumer understanding.
Between 2015-20 he led Reliance’s ambitions in sports as its CEO managing JVs including with Disney & IMG and helped consolidate and integrate RIL’s sports portfolio. From a disaggregated set of sporting events he helped consolidate and lay a strong foundation for growth of football through Indian Super League (ISL) and other Olympic sports in India. He also led Reliance foundation’s activities in sport aimed at building a sustainable grassroot sports eco system and initiating national level school and college sports reaching out to over 21mn kids across the length and breath of India.
He has served on several working groups at the International Cricket council and served as a member of ICCs integrity working group aimed to strength anti corruption code.
Prior to his stint with BCCI, Sundar served as the Managing Director of WPP Inc flagship media advisory company MindShare. He developed a strong background in consumer understanding and investment management during his time at WPP handling major portfolio of clients including Unilever, GSK amongst others.
Sundar is a graduate in Applied Sciences and a Post Graduate in Marketing & Communications from Mumbai University. He is also certified in BlockChain from Univ of California, Berkeley. He serves as a board advisor in a many startups in Edtech, Sport tech, Blockchain and Consumer insights analytics firms
- Management consultant
- Former CEO, Sports at Reliance Industries; helped shape Reliance’s business ambitions in sports
- Built a sustainable integrated grassroot sports ecosystem for Reliance
- Former COO of the Indian Premier League (IPL) since its inception in 2008
Sundar Raman
Co-Founder
Dr. Shahvir Nooryezdan
Dr. Shahvir Nooryezdan has completed his Post Graduation with a Master’s Degree in Restorative Dentistry from the University of Sheffield, UK.He underwent advanced training in Oral Implantology at various centres in Germany and has maintained an exclusive Restorative & Implantology practice in Mumbai since 1993. He is the Founder President of the Indian Academy of Osseointegration. He is also a Diplomate of the ICOI (USA). He is a founding member of the Asian Academy of Osseointegration and has been examiner at the Australian Society of Implant dentistry accreditation program.
Dr. Shahvir gained widespread international recognition and has been an invited keynote speaker at European Association for Osseointegration, Quintessence International and several other leading dental congresses around the world. He has been on the Editorial Review board of the International Congress of Oral Implantology journal – Implant Dentistry and a member of the ICOI credentialing committee. His dental practice “ORIS” in Mumbai is recognized and listed amongst 40 “Leading Dental centers of the world” at www. leadingdentalcenters. com.
As a successful entrepreneur, he established his own Dental Implant Company – Equinox Medical Technologies that was acquired by Straumann AG the world leader in the space at the end of 2016. He served as the CEO of Straumann India from 2017 to 2018 and continued as Chairman of Straumann India from 2018 to 2020. He is since then been involved in several opportunities in the Healthcare space
- 25+ years of experience as a dentist and entrepreneur; founder of Equinox Medical Technologies
- Pioneer in Dental implants; listed among the top 50 dentists in the world
- Successfully sold Equinox to Straumann AG, first ever M&A transaction in the dental space
Dr. Shahvir Nooryezdan
Co-FounderBoard of Directors
Ravi Kant
Ravi Kant has over 50 years of experience in diverse companies. He was the Vice Chairman and the CEO/ Managing Director of Tata Motors which grew from $1.5Bn to $39Bn in 15 years. He led the acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover. Earlier he was the Director of Consumer Electronics at Philips India; Director of Marketing at LML Vespa Ltd., the First Vice President of Marketing at Titan Watches Ltd and held positions in Hawkins and Hindalco. He served as the President of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers.
Previously, he acted as chairman and director of several Tata companies in India and abroad. He served as Chairman at Tata Advanced Materials Limited. He also serves as the Non-Executive Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors Limited.
He is currently contributing as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital – a unit of Yugrishi Shriram Sharma Acharya Charitable Trust which is the largest Eye hospital in Eastern India working towards eradicating curable blindness from low-income regions and empower rural under privileged women to achieve this.
- Former Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Tata Motors
- Member of the Board, Kone Ltd, Helsinki
- Chairman Advisory Board, MedTherapy India and Akhandjyoti India
- Distinguished professor, IIT Kharagpur
- Visiting leader, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai
Ravi Kant
Co-Founder & Non-Executive Chairman
Dr R Venkataramanan
Venkat is the Founder and CEO of Karkinos Healthcare and an Advisor to the Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited.
Prior to founding Karkinos, Venkat spent more than 15 years with the Tata Group in various capacities. His last assignment in the Tata Group was as the Managing Trustee of the Tata Trusts where he was responsible for the operations, oversight, and co-ordination of the Trusts’ development programs worth more than USD 1B. He was instrumental in the conceptualization of the Distributed Cancer Care Network and has led the development of multiple apex cancer hospitals across the country. He was a member of the Governing Board of multiple institutions such as Tata Medical Center, TISS, IISc and TIFR. Also, he was the Executive Director and CIO of RNT Capital Advisers which was a USD 350M fund with a portfolio of 15+ investments and Co-Founder of Avanti Finance – a new age fin-tech enterprise for financial inclusion. For several years, he served as an Executive Assistant to Mr. Ratan Tata, the former Chairman of the Tata Group where he was a part of several significant projects including the Tata Motors acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover, launch of the small car Nano and creation of several Joint Ventures. Prior to this, Venkat served as Head of Business Support at the Qatar Foundation, Doha, and Tata Communications.
Venkat is a Science and a Law graduate and has done his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Sri Satya Sai University, Puttaparthi. He has completed his Doctorate in Engineering (EngD) from WMG, University of Warwick, UK on the role of Technology in Health Care Systems. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School
Venkat is a member of Governing Council of Jio Institute, a multi-disciplinary higher education institute of eminence.
Dr R Venkataramanan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Karkinos Healthcare
Sundar Raman
Sundar is an independent advisor and management consultant with 25 + years of experience in business spanning marketing, advertising, Entertainment and sports.
He is currently a Director at Reliance Foundation Youth Sports. He was the Chief Operating Office of the Indian Premier League (IPL) since inception in 2008 credited with building India’s largest sports start up in IPL and bringing BCCI to centerstage in world cricket. During his leadership stint at BCCI he managed revenue growth enabling BCCI to become the richest body in world cricket. He also established and served as the CEO of Champions League – world club cricket championship From 2008,he has helped shape the growth of cricket globally and catalyse growth of professional sports in India. Sundar was instrumental in refocusing cricket and enabling it reach newer audience through innovation, use of technology and unrelenting focus on fans grounded on strong consumer understanding.
Between 2015-20 he led Reliance’s ambitions in sports as its CEO managing JVs including with Disney & IMG and helped consolidate and integrate RIL’s sports portfolio. From a disaggregated set of sporting events he helped consolidate and lay a strong foundation for growth of football through Indian Super League (ISL) and other Olympic sports in India. He also led Reliance foundation’s activities in sport aimed at building a sustainable grassroot sports eco system and initiating national level school and college sports reaching out to over 21mn kids across the length and breath of India.
He has served on several working groups at the International Cricket council and served as a member of ICCs integrity working group aimed to strength anti corruption code.
Prior to his stint with BCCI, Sundar served as the Managing Director of WPP Inc flagship media advisory company MindShare. He developed a strong background in consumer understanding and investment management during his time at WPP handling major portfolio of clients including Unilever, GSK amongst others.
Sundar is a graduate in Applied Sciences and a Post Graduate in Marketing & Communications from Mumbai University. He is also certified in BlockChain from Univ of California, Berkeley. He serves as a board advisor in a many startups in Edtech, Sport tech, Blockchain and Consumer insights analytics firms
- Management consultant
- Former CEO, Sports at Reliance Industries; helped shape Reliance’s business ambitions in sports
- Built a sustainable integrated grassroot sports ecosystem for Reliance
- Former COO of the Indian Premier League (IPL) since its inception in 2008
Sundar Raman
Co-Founder
Biju Samkutty
Biju Samkutty is the chief operating officer for Mayo Clinic’s international endeavors. In partnership with international president Dr. Anton Decker, Biju leads Mayo Clinic’s global efforts, from international patients seen domestically to new collaborations and entities across the world, including responsibility for Mayo’s fully owned clinic in London and joint venture in Abu Dhabi.
Before joining Mayo Clinic in 2021, Biju served as the chief operating officer for McKesson Corporation’s clinical service businesses, where he was instrumental in growing revenues annually by over 30% during his three-year tenure. While at McKesson, he also served as the senior vice president of McKesson’s Program Office – responsible for mergers, acquisitions and integration efforts – and the senior vice president for Global Brand Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for over $140B in drug procurement and development of unique biopharma services. Biju also served as the vice president of Generics National Accounts, helping to drive significant growth strategies and create long-term relationships with some of McKesson’s largest distribution customers, including CVS, Walmart, Rite Aid, and supported the development and growth of McKesson NorthStar Generics organization
Biju Samkutty
Chief Operating Officer-International, Mayo Clinic
Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni
Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni is a cardiologist who turned into a venture capitalist, to be a part of the healthcare innovation story. Dr. Ramesh is currently the Managing Director of Endiya Partners and focusses on investments in the healthcare sector, primarily digital health and medical devices.
Prior to Endiya, Dr. Ramesh was at Ventureast, where he invested in companies such as, OneBreath that focusses on mechanical ventilation and SmartRx, an innovator in mobile engagement platforms for healthcare. Dr. Ramesh is also an angel investor with Nephroplus, India’s largest chain of dialysis clinics.
Dr. Ramesh Byrapaneni
Non-Executive, Independent Director
Monika Sood
Monika Sood is a partner in Bain & Company’s New Delhi office. She is an active contributor to the firm’s Healthcare and Private Equity practices in India.
With more than two decades of experience in consulting, Monika has worked with 100+ corporates, private equity funds, and government departments.
She has expertise in formulating winning strategies for growth in competitive markets for new entrants and incumbents, business transformation, and performance improvement, advising on M&A and investment transactions (identification, screening, diligence, integration, and turnaround).
Monika Sood
Non-Executive, Independent Director
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Khosla
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Khosla, an internationally renowned electrical and computer engineer, is the eighth Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and a distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering.
He began his teaching career at Carnegie Mellon in 1986 and was elected as the University Professor in 2008, the highest distinction a faculty member could achieve.
His research interests encompass the areas of internet-enabled collaborative design, collaborating autonomous systems, agent-based architectures for distributed design and embedded control, software composition and reconfigurable software for real-time embedded systems, reconfigurable and distributed robotic systems, integrated design-assembly planning systems and distributed information systems.
He has received several awards and recognitions, including the George Westinghouse Award for Education, elected membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Indian Academy of Engineering.
He serves on advisory boards for several non-profit and government organizations, venture capital firms, and high-tech start-up companies. He has served as a member of Strategy Review Board for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; the Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committee, NASA; the National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design; the Pennsylvania Treasury Advisory Board; and the Senior Advisory Group for the DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems.
He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur in 1980, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering in 1984 and 1986 at Carnegie Mellon. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate of science from the Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur.
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Khosla
Non-Executive, Independent Director
Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda
Dr. Katragadda is a pioneer in crowdsourcing and building products for the underserved. His creation, Google Map Maker, tripled the world’s digital maps corpus, mapping 4 billion people in 187 countries. The UN and aid agencies have used these user generated maps to assist and rescue millions. Dr. Katragadda co-founded Google’s first international engineering center and was formerly the Head of Google’s – India products having invented, led several products including Crowdsourced YouTube Subtitles, Crowdsourced translation corpus, Indic handwriting and Google Transliteration.
Dr. Katragadda is currently focused on contributing towards India’s nation building, by being the founder of Indihood, Swaja Labs, an architect of Aarogya Setu, Digital India’s Open API and AP Government’s Fiber Grid.
Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda
Non-Executive, Independent Director
Dr. Arghya Sengupta
Dr. Arghya Sengupta is the Founder and Research Director at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. Vidhi is an independent legal research think-tank, founded with the aim of formulating better laws and improving governance for the public good. Dr. Sengupta’s areas of specialization are constitutional law and regulation of the digital economy. He has served on several government committees including the Justice B.N. Srikrishna-led committee of experts on a data protection framework for India.
Prior to founding Vidhi, he was at Oxford as a Lecturer in Administrative Law at Pembroke College.
He has recently authored a book “Independence and Accountability of the Indian Higher Judiciary” (Cambridge, 2019) which builds on his doctoral work at Oxford University.
Dr. Sengupta has a number of academic publications on the Supreme Court and the Constitution in leading law journals such as, Law Quarterly Review and Public Law. He is a columnist at The Telegraph and The Times of India and writes regularly for leading media outlets.
Dr. Arghya Sengupta
Non-Executive, Independent Director
Deepak Kharwad
Deepak is an independent advisor and financial consultant and has more than 15 years of experience in finance and advisory services, specializing in investment banking and transaction advisory services
Deepak is chartered accountant by qualification and have advised various corporates in the field of investment banking and transaction advisory services.
Deepak is currently heading his own independent advisory firm by name M/s Tvisha Corporate Advisors LLP prior to which he was associated with National Stock Exchange of India Limited.
Deepak is still associated with National Stock Exchange of India Limited as an independent consultant.
Deepak Kharwad
Director and Head of Compliance
Executive Management
Dr R Venkataramanan
Venkat is the Founder and CEO of Karkinos Healthcare and an Advisor to the Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited.
Prior to founding Karkinos, Venkat spent more than 15 years with the Tata Group in various capacities. His last assignment in the Tata Group was as the Managing Trustee of the Tata Trusts where he was responsible for the operations, oversight, and co-ordination of the Trusts’ development programs worth more than USD 1B. He was instrumental in the conceptualization of the Distributed Cancer Care Network and has led the development of multiple apex cancer hospitals across the country. He was a member of the Governing Board of multiple institutions such as Tata Medical Center, TISS, IISc and TIFR. Also, he was the Executive Director and CIO of RNT Capital Advisers which was a USD 350M fund with a portfolio of 15+ investments and Co-Founder of Avanti Finance – a new age fin-tech enterprise for financial inclusion. For several years, he served as an Executive Assistant to Mr. Ratan Tata, the former Chairman of the Tata Group where he was a part of several significant projects including the Tata Motors acquisition of Jaguar Land Rover, launch of the small car Nano and creation of several Joint Ventures. Prior to this, Venkat served as Head of Business Support at the Qatar Foundation, Doha, and Tata Communications.
Venkat is a Science and a Law graduate and has done his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Sri Satya Sai University, Puttaparthi. He has completed his Doctorate in Engineering (EngD) from WMG, University of Warwick, UK on the role of Technology in Health Care Systems. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School
Venkat is a member of Governing Council of Jio Institute, a multi-disciplinary higher education institute of eminence.
Dr R Venkataramanan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Karkinos Healthcare
Dr. Moni Abraham K.
Co-Founder, Medical Director and CEO, Karkinos Kerala
BSC, BDS, MB CHB, MD (USA), FDSRCS, FFDRCS, FRCS, FRCS ED, AB
Moni Abraham Kuriakose has previously served Narayana Health City, Bangalore as director of surgical oncology and director of Mazumdar Shaw Centre for Translational Research. Prior to this he had the following assignments-
(1) Chairman of Head and Neck Institute, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin,
(2) Attending Surgeon, and Professor, New York University,
(3) Professor and Vice Chairman Head and Neck Oncology and Director of Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York.
He is currently visiting professor at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and New York University. His clinical interests are management of advanced head and neck cancer, skull-base surgery, 3D planning and functional reconstruction. His research laboratory focus on understanding biology of oral cancer stem cells and targeting it to prevent oral cancer and using novel technology platform for early detection of the cancer. He has over 200 peer reviewed publications and five international patents to his credit. He is the author of a four-volume textbook titled `Contemporary Oral Oncology’ and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Oral Cancer” by Springer-Nature group. He has served Indian head and neck cancer society (FHNO) as its past president and is the President Elect of International Academy of Oral Oncology (IAOO).
- Ex-Director, Surgical Oncology, Narayana Health City and ex-Director of Mazumdar Shaw centre for translational research
- Attending Surgeon and Professor at New York University; has 200 peer reviewed publications and 5 international patents
- Professor and Vice-Chairman, Head and Neck Oncology and Director of Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York
- President-elect of International Academy of Oral Oncology (IAOO) and Ex-President of Indian head and neck cancer society (FHNO)
Dr. Moni Abraham K.
Co-Founder, Medical Director and CEO, Karkinos Kerala
Raja Sekhar Kommu
Rajs is a techpreneur and people leader with over 24 years of experience divided between Corporates and Startups spanning Banking, Insurance and Real Estate industries.
Rajs comes with an experience of starting up and running a technology products business within India, working with Fortune 100 companies across the globe driving large business transformation projects.
Rajs worked for organizations such as American Express, Credit Suisse, Key Bank, The Hartford Insurance in key techno-managerial roles and roles with P&L responsibility via Wipro Technologies, one of India’s leading IT services company. At American Express, Rajs was part of the team that architected and implemented world’s first online credit card statement. Rajs was part of Enterprise Architecture Review Boards for several of his clients.
As an entrepreneur, Rajs has built ApnaComplex – a technology platform for Home Owner Associations in India- with a shoestring budget, created an impactful brand used by thousands of housing societies and lakhs of homeowners and residents across 80+ cities in India. Rajs was instrumental in shaping the Apartment Management Software Industry in India with innumerable first of its kind innovations. After running the organization for a decade, Rajs made a successful exit through an aquistion by a leading enterprise in the property technology space.
Rajs is known for crisis management, principle centered people-oriented leadership, strong innovation mindset, deep understanding of Technology and Architecting highly scalable systems. A hands-on Programmer, he is adept at putting together very high performing cross functional teams.
Rajs has a Masters’ Degree in Computer Science from IISc, Bangalore.
- 24+ years of experience divided equally between Corporates and Startups
- Worked with American Express, Key Bank and Hartford Insurance as clients via Wipro Technologies
- Experience in starting up and running technology business within India catering to mass market
- Built ApnaComplex with a shoestring budget, scaled to lakhs of residences across India
Raja Sekhar Kommu
Co-Founder and CTO
Sripriya Rao
With close to two decades of experience working with the Tata Group, Sripriya has been a trusted strategic advisor and organizational transformation coach for many C-Suite leaders. She worked as Partner and Head for Organisation Change Management for Tata Consultancy Services, managing India, Asia Pacific, Australia and Middle East regions. She is a consistent high performer, recognised as one of the youngest partner and among top twenty five women high performers at Tata Consultancy Services. Sripriya is credited with leading more than fifty highly proficient change teams for large transformation initiatives in Asia Pacific and creating differentiated product offerings and consulting frameworks to manage large scale change in the areas of Next Generation solutions, Enterprise Agility, Digital, Cloud, Robotics and Machine Learning
Among her many successful transformation stories, Sripriya led a consulting team to help transform Wealth Management platform – integrating front to back office operations. Similarly, she helped modernise the IT platform for Department of Posts, India across 23 postal circles. Sripriya received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication from NMAM Institute of Technology and is a CTT certified consultant at Barett Values Centre on Leadership values assessment and culture
- Ex-Partner & Head for Organisational Change Management, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), managing Asia+ region
- One of the youngest partners and was among the top 25 TCS women achievers in TCS Leadership Program
- Led over 50 large scale business initiatives across 14+ countries with clients such as JLR, UBS, GE Healthcare Financial Services, Petronas, Ericsson and more..
- Helped modernize the IT platform for Department of Posts, India across 23 postal circles impacting 500K+ employee base
Sripriya Rao
Co-Founder and CGO
RT Wasan
Wasan is a passionate leader with experience in Sales, Marketing, Product Management, International Business and Retail Finance
Wasan is a passionate leader with three decades of experience in Sales, Marketing, International Business, Product Management, Strategic Network Management and Retail finance in the Commercial vehicles and Construction Equipment Industry.
A Mechanical engineer with MBA in marketing, Wasan is a strong people leader with a track record of having effectively managed the MHCV product portfolio during the turnaround of Tata Motors in the early 2000s, doubling the International business and entering a number of new markets in ASEAN, Africa and Latin America. As Head of Sales & Marketing for CV, strengthened and grew the network of dealerships to support the growth aspirations of the company across different product lines. With a strong customer and product focus, he also led the team in the development and launch of the hugely successful BS6 range of MHCV products leading to significant gains in share and contributions for the company.
Wasan has played a key role in various digital / process transformations including the development and deployment of the CRM platform in Tata Motors and JCB, the connected vehicle program in Tata Motors using state of the art telematics solutions in vehicles.
An active sportsman, Wasan continues to play various games including tennis, squash and regularly running marathons.
RT Wasan
Chief Network Officer
Sarika Phatak
Sarika Phatak is a veteran in healthcare technologies with extensive experience in R&D, product design, product management and business development for a number of healthcare product and service offerings. She has global experience in defining solutions for diagnostic and therapeutic products and connected care at large. Her areas of interest include innovation in medical devices, connected care and population health management, using advanced technologies and design led strategies.
Sarika has wide experience in Fortune 500 companies such as Philips, Harman and Bell Helicopter Textron. After completing her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas, she worked in avionics design in Bell Helicopter Textron. She has extensive hands on experience on working on all aspects of end to end product design and development including hardware, software and industrial design.
Sarika worked in haptics technology and surgery simulation for her master’s thesis. She has been working with teams in building innovative healthcare products and solutions during major part of her career. She has deep experience of product life cycle engineering. She has managed several projects through the entire life cycle of the project especially developing a product concept into viable, scalable designs and taking them through prototyping and manufacturing phase. She has worked in the areas of connected healthcare, patient engagement, minimal invasive diagnostic medical devices, care coordination, image guided therapy, etc.
Sarika has served in various leadership roles in program management, product management, solution architecture and business analysis. She has also served as Head of Partnerships and Head of Solutions responsible for designing the solutions using across various companies. She was also actively involved in mergers and acquisition strategy to form differentiated solution offering. She has deep knowledge of international markets and has expertise about product design and customization for global markets.
Sarika Phatak
Vice President - Strategic Initiatives
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is the CIO of Karkinos Healthcare based in India. He holds the responsibility to drive IT strategy and digital transformation and design the digital roadmap of the company. Karkinos Healthcare is a specialist end-to-end technology-driven oncology-focused managed healthcare platform.
Prior to his current assignment, Arvind was the CIO at Apollo Hospitals and was responsible for the IT strategy, digital transformation initiatives, and implementation across the Apollo Hospitals group.
Arvind has extensive experience in management consulting, architecting, and building solutions for enterprise-wide applications.
In 2022, he led Apollo Hospitals in achieving the prestigious HIMSS Level 6 Health care IT maturity model certification which is a rare maturity level attained in the Asia Pacific region. Arvind has led Apollo Hospitals to achieve the CHiME Most Wired Digital Hospital stage 9 for both Acute and Ambulatory care settings in 2021 and Stage 8 certification in the prior years of 2019 and 2020. His experience in the domain of health care IT has spanned geographies across the world.
Arvind holds the credentials of CHCIO certified by the College of Health Information Executives, USA as a Healthcare CIO. He currently serves as the Secretary of CHiME’s India chapter and is a member of the board of CHiME in India. He has been inducted into the CIO Hall of fame by the prestigious CIO.in magazine. In 2019, he was felicitated by CIO&Leader for Exemplary Leadership, Professional excellence, and Community contribution. He was recognized as the CIO of the year in 2022 by the CEO’s Association for Inclusive India – SKOCH Group. Apart from ICT solutions in the Healthcare domain, Arvind has a keen interest in IT solutions that aid Quality and Service excellence in service industries.
Arvind lives in Chennai with his family and is a very keen Carnatic music enthusiast.
Linkedin: http://in.linkedin.com/in/nsarvind
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
CIO of Karkinos Healthcare
Kumar Satyam
Kumar Satyam has been working in making healthcare communications easier, simpler and efficient. Early in his career he made a conscious decision to stay in Healthcare and in India. It’s been 16 years since.
First 8 years he worked in healthcare startups primarily around Radiology Imaging , PACS systems , DICOM Archives and data integration & migration. Next phase of his career took him to GE Healthcare where he spent close to 6 years and before joining Karkinos Healthcare he was working in Philips.
At Philips Kumar Satyam was leading the architecture team for the Interoperability solution business category which is responsible for building & deploying standards based Health Information exchanges & enabling Philips interoperability and providing enterprise solutions to hospitals and IDNs. He was also part of the core group exploring India market possibilities & leveraging NDHM. During his stint at GE, as core member of global Interoperability CoE , he was the Technical person responsible for setting up global interoperability testing lab, process and tooling. As Architect & later as engineering manager for GE Centricity EMR interoperability he led the API initiative for Centricity business solutions division, which started as Meaningful use compliance requirement, and later transformed into a FHIR platform for the Centricity solutions and a third party app developer platform and app store.
In his volunteer capacity Kumar Satyam leads the technical committee of HL7 India and have been building the FHIR India community. Kumar Satyam was involved in reviewing NDHM FHIR profiles and has helped NRCEs team with FHIR knowhow, and briefly volunteered with Ispirt.
Of all the layers of interoperability Kumar Satyam believes the most difficult layer to fix is the people layer, Technical & data interoperability are also important. This is where the community plays a role through its people.
Professional associations:
- Chair- Technical Committee HL7 India
- Co-Chair Interoperability Committee Himss India
- Member Education Advisory Committee – HL7 International
- Member Open group enterprise architects group.
Kumar Satyam
Deputy Chief Product Officer
Pooja Sharma
Pooja is an experienced Human Resource Professional with demonstrated history in people management. She brings in the responsibility for people practice, talent acquisition & management, rewards, and L&D charter to align the HR Practice to business objectives.
She has experience in Designing and Implementing the business focussed HR Processes in Public, Private, VC Backed Companies.
Her experience includes enabling and defining the following people centric processes Employee Engagement, Change Management, Talent Acquisition & Management (campus through executive), Learning & Development, Coaching and Mentoring, HR Business Partner, Performance Management, Audit Requirements for Fintech companies, HR Policies Design and Improvement, Internal Job Postings, Employee Referrals, Recruitment & Hiring Processes.
Pooja Sharma
Vice President - HR
Parag Boob
Parag is an experienced finance Professional over 13 years of experience in the financial and compliance domain and has worked with Hospitality Industry leaders like Indian Hotels (Taj Group), Ginger Hotels and Marriott Hotels.
He has experience in Financial Planning, Budgeting, Treasury, Accounts, Investor relations, Internal control and Audit, Merger & Acquisition, Corporate Structuring, Fund Raising, Compliance, Financial Reporting, MIS, and Taxation.
His experience includes heading the finance function of group of hotels and to transform from distributed finance function to a centralised shared service-based approach., Corporate finance function. He was also part of team that raised Rs 1000 cores of equity and various debts financing and refinancing. He was part of core team that has driven the change of Implementing IND-AS and GST across the whole Group.
Parag is Qualified Chartered Accountant & Company Secretary and holds Master and Bachelor Degree in Commerce from Jodhpur University
Parag Boob
Vice President - Finance
Arup Ghosh
Arup Ghosh has more than two decades of global IT experience working with leading Fortune 500 customers in in large managed services & digital transformation pursuits and programs. He has served in leadership roles across multiple functions of service delivery, business consulting and solution design, especially in BFSI industry.
Arup has rich experience in software development and delivery methodologies, people management, cost management, process optimization and quality assurance. He has a proven track record of building high performance cross-functional teams to design and execute programs, that involves complex technology problems and stringent milestones, predictably and with high quality. As a Solution Architect, Arup has led pursuit teams across multiple service lines in designing tailored solutions that addressed customer challenges of application modernization, cost take out, operating model efficiencies and customer centricity and experience with a right blend of technology best practices, innovative operating models and pricing strategies.
Arup holds a B.E in Electrical Engineering from North Bengal University.
Arup Ghosh
Vice President - Projects Engineering
Dr. Anjali Kulkarni
Clinical Oncologist with 19 years of combined experience in clinical practice and various healthcare technology companies including medical devices across various functions like project management, product development, upskilling to adopt AI / Cognitive solutions and client engagement.
Rich experience in working with sponsors, key stakeholders like CEO, CMO, CIO and client teams to develop and deliver actionable strategic plans and monitor key performance indicators and technology adoption.
In MedTech companies like Siemens, Philips I was involved in building diagnostic imaging solutions, interoperability suits for the healthcare systems both public and Private. I was part of R& D teams to identify the disrupting technologies for patient care and delivery like digital pathology, image fusion and molecular diagnostics.
Few publications and a patent were filed for the work related to imaging and its applications esp in cancer care.
I was leading a team to drive Clinical excellence activities in a Chennai based MedTech startup -Perfint Healthcare. www.perfinethealthcare.com Robotic interventional technology was used in precise drug delivery and to perform diagnostic procedures. This product has 510K approval along with CE and many other global market approvals for clinical use.
My experience with Boston Scientific was spanning across cardiology, neurology with minimally invasive technology and innovative concepts like drug eluting stents, deep brain stimulation.
During my IBM Watson stint was leading global team of oncologists to implement and adopt AI based cancer and genomics technology and help clinicians and other stakeholders to help improve patient outcomes. Genomics offering was evaluated with various life sciences industries and next generation diagnostic offerings. That was great learning from the genomic experts, molecular diagnostic expert and biostatisticians across geographies.
Currently with Karkinos Healthcare as VP clinical operations. Karkinos is an innovative Oncology startup with a vision to democratize cancer care in a participatory fashion with existing health providers, researchers and technologists using futuristic digital technologies, AI based Oncology analytics and patient engagement solutions using cloud based, open-source solutions to bring in scale at population and community level.
All along the journey from Clinician to Domain Expert in technology had opportunity to interact with various new technology startups, top clinical brains and public and private sector healthcare delivery systems including policy makers and biotechnology ministry department DBT and decision makers executives.
I would like to explore any challenging opportunity coming my way.
Dr. Anjali Kulkarni
VP-Clinical Informatics
Arunesh Punetha
Arunesh Punetha has over 28 years of experience in healthcare operations in the areas of clinical delivery, operational efficiency, business development and conceptualization, and deployment of innovative offerings to improve healthcare accessibility.
Punetha started his career with Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Medical Sciences as part of their technical team and thereafter worked in organizations such as Boston Scientific International, Medtronic India, Baxter India Pvt. Ltd., Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited and Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd.
He has worked in sales, marketing, and revenue management roles at the senior level. Punetha’s most recent position was Regional Director for Narayana Health, where he played a key role in the launch and commissioning of the state-of-the-art exclusive tertiary pediatric hospital at Mumbai. He has lead the West Region operations for Narayana Health for over 8 years and has been instrumental in driving Operational Excellence, Clinical Quality, Patient Support programs as well as Profitable growth across the hospitals in the region.
Punetha completed his MBA specializing in Marketing from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.
Arunesh Punetha
Director - Operations
Deepak Kharwad
Deepak is an independent advisor and financial consultant and has more than 15 years of experience in finance and advisory services, specializing in investment banking and transaction advisory services
Deepak is chartered accountant by qualification and have advised various corporates in the field of investment banking and transaction advisory services.
Deepak is currently heading his own independent advisory firm by name M/s Tvisha Corporate Advisors LLP prior to which he was associated with National Stock Exchange of India Limited.
Deepak is still associated with National Stock Exchange of India Limited as an independent consultant.
Deepak Kharwad
Director and Head of Compliance
Srikanth Rapaka
Srikanth Rapaka has over two decades of experience in HR across various sectors. He has worked extensively in the areas of talent acquisition, talent management, talent development, and HR automation.
Srikanth started his career with Eureka Forbes, managing Sales HR and thereafter worked in organizations such as Voltas, Mahindra & Mahindra, and Tata Group’s HR.
As part of the group talent management process, he moved to DIESL (A Tata Industries Company) as Head-HR & Admin and thereafter to an e-commerce start-up Tata CLiQ (Tata UniStore Limited) as Head – HR & Admin, where he was part of the core team involved in setting-up to scaling-up of the business.
Srikanth’s immediate previous assignment was with Tata Chemicals Limited (TCL) as Business HR Head managing HR function for two of their new businesses – nutrition science and silica. His responsibilities included establishing HR systems & processes for green-field and brown-field manufacturing units and in addition HR automation at an organization level.
Srikanth earned a Master’s degree in human resources management from Andhra University and a certificate in strategic human resource leadership from e-Cornell.
Srikanth Rapaka
Director - Human Resources
Soumya Hariharan
Soumya Hariharan is an experienced lawyer with multi-jurisdictional work experience across India, Singapore, and the ASEAN region.
Prior to joining Karkinos Healthcare, Soumya was an equity partner at Trilegal. She has also worked at AZB & Partners, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Dentons Rodyk in Singapore. Soumya has worked on some of the most complex M&A matters. She has represented companies in contentious matters and investigations and has appeared before various courts.
Soumya completed her LLM with a specialization in corporate & financial services law from the National University of Singapore and BSL.LLB from ILS Law College, Pune. She enjoys writing and teaching law students on evolving and contemporary legal and policy issues in India.
Soumya Hariharan
Head - Legal
Abhishek Poduri
Abhishek Poduri has over 16 years of notable experience in healthcare and management consulting in the areas of strategy, operational excellence and project management, and has held P&L responsibilities.
Abhishek last held the position of Chief Operating Officer for the AP & Telangana Cluster at Roche Pharma India (Roche), where he was heading operations, spanning across sales & marketing, market access, and ecosystem development for Oncology and Rare Diseases. Also, at Roche he was the national sponsor for Foundation Medicine, India. Prior to this role, Abhishek worked with Tata Trusts as the Head of South Zone Operations and was leading the implementation of multi-thematic interventions across the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
During his association with the Tata Trusts, he was a part of the leadership team that developed the distributed cancer care model and led the planning and commissioning of the Center for Oncopathology. He also conceptualized the business plan for Surgical Skill Training Center and Command Center, critical to the distributed cancer care model.
In addition, Abhishek has a decade of rich experience in management consulting and has worked with companies such as Bain & Co., Arete Advisors and Feedback Infra. He has worked across sectors such as healthcare, infrastructure, logistics and industrial goods, and has advised both domestic and international clients including private equities on multiple engagements.
Abhishek’s educational qualifications include an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Bachelors’ in Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad
Abhishek Poduri
Director and Head of Business - Diagnostics
Arghya Basu
Arghya is building verified healthcare knowledge powered by the privacy of next-generation technologies to achieve health equity. Arghya Basu has 15 years of enterprising experience in the healthcare and technology sectors in Strategic Planning, Consultative Selling & Marketing, Analytics, and Financial Management.
Basu has been an entrepreneur since a very young age. He started his first company in software services and later worked in organizations such as Sify Technologies and Google. In his previous roles, he held responsibilities in Account Portfolio Management involving Consultative Selling, Market & Consumer insights for brand ideas & strategies, AdSales and Marketing in Search and Project Management, to name a few.
Basu’s immediate past assignment for more than a decade was with CORE Diagnostics as its Co-Founder and Director, establishing an oncology-focused pathology lab and data science driven specialized diagnostics. He helped grow the organization in fundraising, developing business strategy, standardizing healthcare data for actionable insights, and accelerating innovation in med-tech. The latter includes the recent rapid innovation to scale COVID testing delivery across the country and seamless partnerships with State governments for the same. He has a deep understanding of the Indian healthcare ecosystem.
Basu graduated with a B. Tech in Computer Science from JNTU and MBA from T.A. Pai Management Institute. He is an avid sports player keen to promote upcoming sports in the country. Basu is currently sponsoring an upcoming national-level rugby player. He is highly passionate about supporting underprivileged children through education & diagnostics.
Arghya Basu
Director - Strategic Initiatives
Lakshman Sethuraman
Lakshman Sethuraman comes with 16 years of experience in formulating & managing strategic initiatives and program management primarily in healthcare and education.
Sethuraman started his career with Tata Administrative Services (TAS) in the year 2005 and worked on various projects across Tata Group companies. Thereafter, he worked with organizations such as Tata Sons as Executive Assistant to Director – Tata Sons, Tata Medical Center, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Tata Trusts focusing on formulating & implementing strategic initiatives and program management for setting up of cancer hospitals, tobacco control at a community level, setting-up of vocational education programs and nutrition programs.
He was a key member of the team that conceived and set up the Trusts’ cancer care network across India, an initiative with which he was associated for several years.
His immediate last assignment was with Roche India, managing strategic initiatives in the areas of patient service suite, conceiving & running access projects and establishing strategic partnerships with state governments for distributed cancer care as Director – Access.
He is a B.Tech graduate from IIT Madras and an MBA alumnus from IIM-Ahmedabad.
Lakshman Sethuraman
Director-Policy & Strategic Initiatives
Jasrita Dhir
Jasrita has led Brand, Marketing, Digital Marketing & CSR functions in her two decades plus corporate journey. Jasrita has worked in the services sector, from Hospitality to Healthcare, with a short stint in Media. Cause-based marketing and Purpose-led communication is close to her heart.
Her current role entails creating preference and recall for the Brand and thought leadership in the Cancer care ecosystem.
She is credited with lending one of the brands that she has worked with in the past – Fortis Healthcare – a higher purpose and softening the ‘commercial only’ perception through
private healthcare’s most significant public awareness and sensitization campaign on Organ Donation #MoreToGive (winner of 15+ prestigious awards including Effies India & APAC
Finalist).
She has headed CSR programs run by Fortis CSR Foundation in the space of first-aid training, charitable primary health clinics, preventive health education & disaster relief management.
Her work at Max Healthcare led to her being one of the youngest recipients of the organisation’s highest honour – the Chairman’s Award. Prior to joining Karkinos Healthcare, Jasrita was heading Brand, Communications and Marketing for Max India and Antara Senior Care.
In 2011, Jasrita made it to Campaign India’s A List of Media, Advertising and Marketing professionals. Health Biz India magazine, in its 3rd-anniversary issue, profiled her as one of the six Future Game-changers of Healthcare in 2014. Jasrita was nominated as a popular Digital Marketer in IAMAI & Moneycontrol’s Digital Marketer Award 2018. Exchange4Media has chosen her as one of the top 100 Corporate Communications professionals of 2021. Recently, she featured among India’s top 100 Digital Marketers of 2023.
Jasrita Dhir
Director - Marketing & Communications
Medical Team
Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayananwas the former Chief of the Cancer Screening Group, Early Detection & Prevention Section and Special Advisor on Cancer Control at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. He has a MD degree in Radiation oncology followed by post doctoral training in Pittsburgh and Cambridge. After several years of experience in clinical oncology and cancer control in India, Dr Sankaranarayanan joined the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 1993. Currently he is serving as a Senior Visiting Scientist at WHO-IARC in Lyon, France. He advises Governments of Tamil Nadu, Kerala in India and several Latin American, Middle-Eastern, South and East Asian and African Governments on cancer prevention, early detection, control and development of efficient, accessible and affordable cancer health services. He is an author in more than 260 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and his manuals on early detection of cervical cancer have been translated into several languages including Chinese, French, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish among others
- Former Chief of Cancer Screening Group , Early Detection & Prevention Section and Special Advisor on Cancer Control at IARC
- Travelled to more than 100 countries and has provided technical support to national cancer programs and human resource development in more than 75 countries
- Received several awards for services in cancer control
- Advises Govt. of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and several Latin American, MEA, South & East Asian Govts on cancer prevention and early detection
- Author of 260+ papers in international peer-reviewed journals
- M.D. in radiation oncology, postdoctoral training Pittsburgh and Cambridge
Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan
Director, Preventive Oncology
Dr. Kunnambath Ramadas
Director – Clinical Operations and Allied services
Dr. Ramadas, a radiation oncologist completed his post-graduation at Christian Medical College, Vellore. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences and received PhD in Radiation Oncology from the Kerala University. He completed 31 years of service at Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram and retired as Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology.
Dr. Ramadas, served as Medical Superintendent and later as Additional Director of RCC for 9 years. During this tenure he created a patient and staff friendly environment in RCC, Thiruvananthapuram . He lead his team in getting NABH accreditation for RCC, which was the first comprehensive cancer hospital to receive this accreditation in the public sector. Dr. Ramadas has over 100 publications to his credit and got an Indian patent for developing an ayurvedic mouthwash.
Dr. Ramadas is very active in cancer research, and has conducted several multicentric international and national clinical trials, epidemiological and translational cancer research. Dr. Ramadas was the principal investigator of 2 major community based oral and breast cancer screening trials supported by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The findings of this oral cancer screening trial has created a renewed interest in oral cancer screening especially in developing countries.
Dr. Ramadas, has received several national and international awards for his contributions in the field of cancer. He has also played an important role in developing cancer control strategy for the State of Kerala.
Dr. Kunnambath Ramadas
Director - Clinical Operations and Allied services
Dr. Ajit Nambiar
Dr. Ajit Nambiar, MD DNB FRCPath (UK), Fellowship in Surgical Oncopathology (TMH)
Dr. Ajit Nambiar Trained at Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) and Imperial Trust, UK. He is an Ex Prof. & HOD Pathology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi.
Dr. Ajit has expertise in the fields of onco-pathology, histopathology, cytopathology and Molecular pathology with Breast and Lung as Lead areas.
As part of his experience Dr. Ajit has successfully established six sigma lab processes, automation of IHC labs, coagulation labs, Digital Pathology and molecular laboratories as HOD, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. On the academic front the department could commence with Fellowship courses in Oncopathology, Renal Pathology and GI Liver under his leadership. Dr. Ajit also organised 4 AAPUD (amrita annual pathology update) International Pathology event from 2017 to 2021, state IAPM meet 2019, National IAPM on Minimalistic Pathology conference 2019, AIPNA 2021 and 24 webinars series SAGE with eminent national international GURU’S in Pathology.
Dr. Ajit has published 40 articles in National and International Journals and is a reviewer for 5 journals.
Dr. Ajit is the Trainer of trainers for Roche Merck PDL1 assays and also the Medical advisory board , Pathology for Roche and Merck.
Dr. Ajit Nambiar
Director of Lab Services - Kerala
Dr. G. S. Moirangthem
MBBS, MS (PGI), FRCSEd (UK), FICS (GE), FAIS, FIAGES, FMAS, FCLS
An MBBS from the then RMC (RIMS), MS from PGI, Chandigarh, FRCS from Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and fellow of many other scientific Surgical organizations such as Association of Surgeons of India, Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of India (SELSI), Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI), Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endosurgeons, International College of Laparoscopic Surgeons, Member of International Association of Hepatobiliary Surgeons has a working experience of 40 years and 3 months in different capacities such as Registrar, Assistant professor, Associate professor, Professor and Head, department of Surgery. Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal and now as Senior faculty and post graduate teacher for DNB residents under National Board of Examination (NBE), New Delhi, at SHIJA Hospitals, Langol, Imphal. He is presently working as Senior Consultant in General, G1 and Laparoscopic Surgery in SHIJA Hospitals, Langol, Imphal. He has published 75 scientific publications in National and International surgery journals. He has attended 92 National and International surgery related conferences as National/ International faculty, delivered lecture, presided over sessions as chairperson, panellist, examiner etc. He has toured Edinburgh, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Lanzhou University (China), to deliver lectures, scientific presentations etc. He was honoured as Visiting Professor of Lavabon University China. He was National President, Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of India (SELSI) in 2016, was President and founder Secretary, Association of Surgeons of India, Manipur state Chapter. Governing Council Member of National Body of ASI.
He is the examiner of Post-Graduate and Under-Graduate courses in Surgery of different Indian Universities including PGI, Chandigarh, AIIMS, New Delhi (Thesis). NEIGRIHMS. Shillong etc. He was the Inspector/ Assessor of Medical Council of India to assess different Medical Institutes in the country. He is a Subject expert in UPSC in Surgery and Gl Surgery. He was awarded to deliver, “Dr. Jaipal Singh Memorial Oration” on “Management of Bile duct Injury during the Annual conference of Association of Surgeons of India (ASICON 2020) on 18th December 2020.
- Awarded the prestigious “Dr Jaipal Singh Memorial Oration ” by Association of Surgeons of India
- He has assisted MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA as Assessor and UPSC as subject Expert many times.
Dr. G. S. Moirangthem
CEO, Karkinos Manipur
Dr. Akhter Jawade
Dr Akhter Jawade is recognized for his 18 years of oncological experience and 26 years of clinical experience. Prior to his role at Karkinos Healthcare, Dr. Jawade was with Apollo Hospitals, Kolkata for 12 years. He began his career as an Associate Consultant and was soon promoted as Senior Consultant. He was later appointed as the Coordinator of the Department of Oncology and later designated as the hospital’s Tumour Board Coordinator.
In his previous roles, Dr. Jawade was Clinical Coordinator, Consultant Oncologist, and Project Lead, Oncology, at Apollo Bramwell Hospital, Mauritius.
Dr. Jawade is a qualified MD from IPGME & R, Kolkata and was appointed as the first Senior Resident in West Bengal for Radiation Oncology. He completed his MBBS from R G Kar Medical College, Kolkata.
Dr. Akhter Jawade
Director East
Dr. Prashant Kumar
Dr. Prashant Kumar brings along with him vast expertise & accomplishments in the field of Cancer Biology and has done extensive research to enhance the translational merits of cancer research. He had established multiple collaborations, and attracted several grants funding from both national and international sources.
Dr. Kumar is a recipient of many prestigious awards and industry recognitions that include Ramanujan Fellowship awarded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, National Award for Excellence in Academic Clinical Research from the Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR) to name a few.
The illustrious work experience of Dr. Kumar spans across various prestigious institutions/organizations such as Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Medical School, Worcester, USA, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A-STAR Singapore and his entrepreneurial venture Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB) at Bengaluru. His immediate last assignment was with Somaiya Vidyavihar University, Mumbai as Dean-Research for the entire University and Director of Somaiya Institute of Research and Consultancy (SIRAC).
Dr. Kumar worked in several path-breaking research initiatives that includes establishing a novel mouse model of malignant breast cancers, establishment of a culture method to assess circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from breast cancers, implementation of cutting-edge technologies in genomics, proteomics to investigate biomarkers and therapeutic targets and his efforts to accelerated discovery in the advancement towards cancer vaccines, precision medicine, molecular diagnostics, bioengineering, and artificial intelligence to name a few. Another major contribution he made in the area of bladder cancer, where his discovery of a biomarker panel for the early diagnosis of bladder cancer was pursued by industry to commercialize it for routine clinical use. This is an important achievement in the clinical community of urologists since, as still today, there are no reliable biomarkers for bladder cancer, which includes the two FDA-approved diagnostic kits.
Dr. Kumar serves on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Annals of Research in Oncology and Cancer Molecular Targets and Therapeutics, Frontiers in Oncology and Frontiers in Pharmacology; and, on the scientific advisory committee of various Industry and private organizations.
Dr. Kumar received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany. Following this, Dr. Kumar did his postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Prof. Karl Simin at the Department of Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts (UMASS) Medical School, Worcester, USA. To further advance his research stint, he joined Prof. Jean-Paul Thiery, a world renowned authority in the area of EMT (Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition) at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A-STAR Singapore.
Dr. Prashant Kumar
Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. K R Muralidhar
Dr. Muralidhar has over 26 years of illustrious experience in Clinical Operations related to Radiation, Planning & Commissioning of New Radiation Therapy facilities, formulating implementation protocols and Radiation Safety. He is also a PhD Guide at various universities. He is an Editorial and Review Board Member of more than five scientific journals. Dr. Muralidhar has also conducted several conferences, workshops and has presented/published papers on Medical Physics both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Muralidhar started his career as Medical Physicist with Manipal Hospital, Bangalore and later worked with organizations such as Christian Cancer Center, Guntur Cancer Center and Indo-American Cancer Institute & Research Center as Chief Medical Physicist & Radiation Safety Officer. His last assignment was with American Oncology Institute, Hyderabad (since May 2011) as Chief Medical Physicist & Radiation Safety Officer.
During his career, Dr. Muralidhar was instrumental in Planning & Commissioning of state-of-the-art equipment and units that are first-of-its-kind in India such as TrueBeam Linear Accelerator, Elekta Synergy Linear Accelerator, Elekta compact LA, Intraoperative Radiotherapy Unit, Big Bore Computed Tomography Simulator, Medical Cyclotron, XIO planning systems , Mammosite Treatment, EMR , Pipspro for TG-142, and Calypso system.
Dr. Muralidhar has done his M.Sc. Tech from JNTU, Hyderabad, Advanced PG Diploma in Radiological Physics from BARC, Mumbai and then went on to complete his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Physics from Nagarjuna University. He has also completed his UICC Fellowship from MD Anderson Cancer Institute, USA and accomplished IAEA Fellowship from IAEA, Vienna, and MHA from Singapore.
Dr. K R Muralidhar
Director of Physics
Dr. Atamjot K Grewal
Dr Grewal has over two decades of experience within corporate healthcare ranging from business development and quality control to running the operations of large secondary and tertiary care hospitals, planning greenfield projects, commissioning hospitals, being the service line head for oncology, formulating strategies of clinical programs across the hospital network and leading patient experience. And in the course of her professional erudition, she has worked in organizations such as Lady Hardinge Medical College, Max Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Artemis Health Institute and Fortis Healthcare Pvt Ltd in different leadership roles.
Dr. Grewal’s immediate previous assignment was with Tata Trusts (Cancer Care Initiative) as Head-Medical Planning where she managed key assignments in the areas of Medical Planning for the Oncology Programme and the Design, Planning & Commissioning of brownfield COVID hospitals in collaboration with respective State Governments.
Dr Grewal is an MBBS graduate from Lady Hardinge Medical College and has a Postgraduate Degree in Laryngology and Otology from Safdarjung Hospital, University of Delhi. She also holds a PG Diploma in Health and Hospital Management from Symbiosis.
Dr. Atamjot K Grewal
Head – Medical Planning & Patient Experience
Dr. Malini Chandrasekharan
An ophthalmologist and a physician by profession, Dr. Malini Chandrasekharan graduated from the prestigious Madras Medical College in Chennai. She began her practice in Doha, Qatar. Her interest to acquire more knowledge made her enroll at the University of Aarhus Medical School, Denmark where she obtained a Diploma in Modern Asthma Management.
Dr. Malini is the Founding Member of the first overseas chapter of Indian Medical Association in Qatar and has served as the Vice President of the chapter. During her 30 years of practice, she was the Designated Medical Officer for immigration to Canada, Australia & New Zealand. She is recognized for her Family Counselling initiatives and has been invited to various professional forums to speak on several topics as a guest speaker.
A mother, advocate for vulnerable humans and working towards internal peace, and life balance, Dr. Malini’s passion towards spirituality grew. She believed that teaching children the values of life would make them a better human being. She therefore trained as a teacher at the Thailand Institute of Human Values and has conducted many workshops in integrating Human Values into the curriculum of various schools.
She was instrumental in setting up several medical camps for the vulnerable in Qatar. The Indian Community Benevolent Fund under the aegis of Indian Embassy, Qatar conferred Dr. Malini with the Best Humanitarian Award.
Retired from professional life, she is now actively involved with geriatric and palliative care in various old age homes in and around Chennai. Occasionally, she also conducts cancer screening camps for women. After visiting hospice care in the US and India, her future plans include setting up a quality facility for an NGO. Her long-term vision is to make a significant impact on overall health and wellbeing.
Dr. Malini Chandrasekharan
Medical Director - South
Dr. Sourabh Radhakrishnan
Dr. Sourabh Radhakrishnan has 15 years of experience as a medical oncologist. He has worked in the departments of Medical Oncology including Pediatric Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant of both Tata Memorial Centre and AIIMS. He is recognized for administering treatment from first clinical assessment of the patient to planning appropriate investigations, deciding the treatment, monitoring of chemotherapy, management of toxicities, response evaluations and follow-ups.
Dr. Radhakrishnan also has the expertise in a wide variety of diagnostic procedures to ascertain the condition of tissues and to detect cancer and perform chemotherapy.
He has a wealth of clinical expertise in Bone Marrow Aspiration, Lumbar Puncture, Peritoneal Dialysis, PICC Insertion, Ascitic Tap; Pleural Tap, Stem Cell Cryopreservation and Bone Marrow Transplant. Dr. Radhakrishnan is recognized for ascertaining and identifying how cancer is developed and then deciding the line of treatment for the patients. He has led several research studies and has authored articles that are published in leading text books and journals. He is currently serving as Senior Consultant and Director Medical Oncology and HSCT at Karkinos Healthcare Services.
Dr. Sourabh Radhakrishnan
Senior Consultant and Director, Medical and Precision Oncology
Dr. Aju Mathew
Dr. Aju Mathew is an American Board-certified medical oncologist and hematologist working in Kochi. He has won awards from the American Society of Clinical Oncology and American Association for Cancer Research for his research. His scholarly work, published in major high-impact scientific journals, has focused on the various aspects of cancer care. Dr. Mathew is a Senior Medical Advisor for Karkinos Healthcare and attends to patients at the Sree Sudheendra Karkinos Cancer Centre in Kochi.
Dr. Aju Mathew
Senior Medical Advisor
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Aparna Parikh
Dr. Parikh is a specialist in gastrointestinal malignancies at the MGH Cancer Center. She has been actively involved in clinical work, providing treatment for patients afflicted with gastrointestinal malignancies as well as providing care on the general oncology inpatient and oncology services. Within GI oncology, she has developed several niches most notably in the field of liquid biopsies as well as colorectal cancer.
Previously, she worked as a medical director at Genentech/Roche, where she led the gastric cancer and hepatocellular cancer strategy and co-led the colorectal cancer strategy. She was involved with both targeted therapy and cancer immunotherapy and was part of development teams for pertuzumab, TDM1, and atezolizumab in gastrointestinal cancers. In 2016, in conjunction with lab collaborators, she developed the clinical platform for the collection of plasma from patients with GI cancers in order to characterize what is known as circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA).
She is an internationally recognized expert in ctDNA and routinely asked to speak on the use of liquid biopsies in colorectal cancer and have been asked to write several invited reviews, chapters and commentaries while also leading advisory boards with biopharma collaborators. She also serves on NCI Task Force for Liquid Biopsies in emerging areas such as pancreatic cancer, a tumor type in which she has several ongoing ctDNA initiatives.
Dr. Aparna Parikh
Dr. Sai Yendamuri
Dr. Sai Yendamuri is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is a member of several prestigious surgical societies. He has published 98 peer reviewed publications – several in top tier journals, and book chapters. He is currently a Professor and Chair of Thoracic Surgery at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Previously, he was an attending Surgeon, Department of Thoracic Surgery, and Director, Thoracic Surgery Laboratory. He is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo. He specializes in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, Esophageal cancer, Complex esophageal surgery for benign esophageal pathology, Lung cancer, Complex lung surgery for benign lung pathology, Mesothelioma Mediastinal tumors, Tracheal surgery, and Photodynamic therapy.
Dr. Sai Yendamuri
Dr Ajit Singh
Dr. Ajit Singh is Managing Director at Silicon Valley-based Artiman Ventures and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine at Stanford. He represents Artiman on the Board of Visby Medical and CORE Diagnostics.
He serves on the Board of Trustees of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Foundation and is a Senior Advisor to the Tata Trusts Cancer program. He is also on the Board of Directors of Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Sofie Biosciences, and Summer Bio.
In the past, he has served as the global CEO of Siemens Oncology and Siemens Imaging Systems. Subsequently, he was the CEO of BioImagene, a cancer diagnostics startup, acquired by Roche. Dr. Ajit has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia, a Master’s in Computer Engineering from Syracuse and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University. He has published 2 books and 5 patents. His Top-10 Book Review is carried by various blogs and journals in December every year.
Dr Ajit Singh
Dr. Sewanti Limaye
Director – Medical Oncology
Director – Precision Oncology
Director – Clinical and Translational Oncology Research
Department: Medical Oncology
Sub-Speciality: All Solid Tumors, Precision Oncology
Qualification
MBBS, MD (New York University, USA), MS (Columbia University, NY, USA)
Fellowship
Fellowship Haematology and Medical Oncology from North-Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Albert Einstein University, New York, USA
Experience
20+ years of experience in Medical & Precision Oncology
Dr. Sewanti Limaye is the Director of Medical & Precision Oncology and Director Oncology and Director Clinical and Translational Oncology Research at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital
Dr. Limaye, established Precision Oncology clinic – led for the first time by a medical oncologist in the country. She also took Oncology Clinical and Translational research to newer heights.
Dr. Limaye has earlier worked at Columbia University Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she worked in Medical Oncology and was Assistant Professor of Medicine and specialized in Thoracic, Head & Neck, GI Oncology and Early Drug Development. Prior to joining Columbia University Dr. Limaye worked as an Attending in Medical Oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at the Phase I – Early Drug Development Center – Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA.
She specializes in the treatment of all solid tumors including Breast, Lung, Head and Neck, GI, GU and Gyn Cancers. Dr. Limaye received her medical degree with honors from Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Bhagalpur and did her residency in Internal Medicine from New York University and did her fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology from Albert Einstein University, New York. She also did a Masters in Patient Oriented Research (Cancer Genomics and Biostatistics) from Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Limaye has been involved in research with leaders at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Columbia University Medical Center and National Cancer Institute, USA. She served on Tata Memorial Hospital Ethics board. She has also co- founded Iylon Precision Oncology with Dr. Sendurai Mani from MDACC, an international precision effort with global leaders and IMPACT India International MTB initiative at the national level.
She has led several national and international trials and has been a part of Data Safety Monitoring Boards. Dr. Limaye was awarded with the John-Flynn Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, the Rose and Jack Horowitz Award for excellence in patient care and Medical Oncology Research Excellence Award-ASCO 2008 for excellence in clinical research. She was nominated to serve as the National Chair of the Sub-protocol Arm B of the landmark NCI-MATCH Trial.
Dr. Limaye is leading the Precision Cancer Center and Initiative at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Dr. Limaye envisions to bring excellence in Cancer Care, Precision Oncology and Cancer Research.
