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Ranjit Madan is the Chief Executive Officer at Life Sciences Sector Skill Development Council.

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Dr. Ajaikumar is a doctorpeneur and the Chairman & CEO of HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd. He is a radiation and medical oncologist with over 40 years of experience.

Learning The Ropes

After completing his MBBS from St John’s Medical College, Bangalore, he went on to complete his residency training in oncology from the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. Dr. Ajaikumar completed his fellowship in radiation and medical oncology from the renowned MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas.

While he had the opportunity to continue to practice at MD Anderson, he chose to start a cancer center west of Chicago in 1979. This center grew well; however, Dr. Ajaikumar was also interested in looking at building a cancer care facility in India. He used to spend several months in the year monitoring the status of cancer care in India.

As he continued to build his practice in the US, Dr. Ajaikumar also founded a not-for-profit hospital in Mysore, Bharath Hospital and Institute of Oncology in 1989. This was largely to meet the needs of patients in Mysore and its surrounding areas.

At the same time, along with a group of oncologists, he started the Bangalore Institute of Oncology (BIO). As this center grew, it helped Dr. Ajaikumar understand the nuances of cancer care in India. The requirement was very clear: there was a great unmet demand. The need of the day was accessibility, affordability, and high quality of cancer care treatment.

Scaling The Dream

With this in mind, he moved back to India with his family in 2003 with a vision of expanding the services offered in Bangalore. Dr. Ajaikumar believed in bringing the hub-and-spoke model to create multiple centers across India to make cancer care affordable, at the same time, bringing high quality care by introducing linear accelerators even in Tier2/Tier3 cities. Also, the cornerstone of his vision was the belief that cancer can be treated only one way: the right way, the first time.

HCG was instrumental in introducing high-end technologies like CyberKnife™ and TrueBeam™. It also brought in advanced bone marrow transplant therapies as well as molecular imaging.

Dr. Ajaikumar also had his eye on the end-to-end delivery of cancer care, and knew molecular diagnostics was an important part of cancer therapies. With this in mind, Dr. Ajaikumar acquired Triesta, which was a molecular diagnostic lab. Today, HCG is at the forefront of molecular diagnostics and incorporating genomics to facilitate precision medicine.

Another area of interest for Dr. Ajaikumar has also been fertility in India. He partnered with Dr. Kamini Rao, under the Milann brand name, and has established multiple centers across India.

Today, HCG is rapidly expanding and will soon have 26 comprehensive cancer care centers from its present number, 17. Milan will grow to 8-10 centers.

With this success, Dr. Ajaikumar is deeply energized and hopeful to spread this model globally. He eagerly seeks to help patients achieve longer and better lives by providing them the best accessible cancer care treatment. He continues to pursue his passion of increasing and strengthening the network of comprehensive cancer centers across the world; beginning in Africa.

Fulfilling A Vision

As a doctorpreneur, his vision has been to focus on good patient outcomes, patient safety and make treatment affordable and accessible. Among his other achievements, he has been awarded the prestigious E&Y Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year Award as well as the Asian Health Care Leadership Awards. Harvard Business School has done several case studies on HCG and Dr. Ajaikumar has given several talks at Harvard Business School and Babson Business School. His goal has also been to encourage and mentor other doctors and entrepreneurs in their own specialties.

Today, under his leadership, cancer care in India has seen a paradigm shift, and cancer care has been redefined as a chronic disease.

Consciously Giving Back

He is a social entrepreneur and has started several NGOs, which have done tremendous developmental work in the Gundlupet district, Karnataka. His organizations have worked on providing financial aid for needy cancer patients, the empowerment of 20,000 women through microfinance, educating 550 children by providing a local school over the last 20 years, and addressing social ills in society.

Apart from his charitable work, he enjoys being a marathon runner and is a voracious reader.

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Urvashi Prasad is a public policy specialist at NITI Aayog, the Indian Government’s premier think tank. She is also the founder of Every Voice, a platform that highlights the perspectives, needs, challenges and aspirations of people living in poverty in their own words. Urvashi was previously a Director at Operation ASHA, one of India’s largest tuberculosis control NGOs. She also led the health portfolio of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation in India for five years. Urvashi is on the governing board of Partnership for TB Care & Control, the largest tuberculosis network in India. She completed her Bachelors in Genetics from University of Birmingham, UK, followed by a Masters in Bioscience Enterprise from University of Cambridge, UK and a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Urvashi is passionate about gender-related and animal welfare issues. She is also a blogger and writes extensively for several platforms including the Huffington Post and Nextbillion.net.

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Dr. Thomas has served the healthcare sector for over 30 years, and holds positions in several national associations that address issues within the healthcare sector: he is the , Founder-Member and President of the Association of National Board Accredited Institutions (ANBAI), Founder-President (2012-2017) and Patron of the Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organizations (CAHO). He played a significant part in incorporating healthcare communication among the NABH Accreditation Standards for Hospitals (4th Edition), introducing communication skills within the MBBS and PG curricula for medical students across India, rolling back the service tax for the health sector and making assaults on doctors a non-bailable offence. Due to his efforts, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) of India made entry-level accreditation mandatory for the empanelment of hospitals, which will result in mandatory empanelment (currently numbering 33,000 hospitals). Dr. Thomas led the expert group on medical education for the National Education Policy (2019) headed by Dr. Kasturirangan. He initiated the creation of a national Think Tank on Health at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU).At the State level, Dr. Thomas played an important role in developing the State Public Health Policy as the Member-Secretary of its Task Force. He has led committees for NABH accreditation of government hospitals in Karnataka, the implementation of NBE accreditation for DNB courses in district hospitals of Karnataka, and working towards a tobacco-free Karnataka.Dr Thomas co-edited the Handbook of Healthcare Quality (2016). Other important publications led by Dr. Thomas are the Guidebook for Pre-Accreditation Entry-Level Standards for Small Healthcare Organizations (2015) supported by the World Bank and NABH; Dr. Thomas was awarded the Emeritus Teacher Award by NBE for his distinguished achievements and contributions to the field of Medical Education (2014).

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CO FOUNDER, MD & CEO: KOTI VENKATA RAO ( KV) 

It’s as if providence had planned for KV (as he is popularly known) to prepare all his life to head an organization like Erfolg Life Sciences. A science graduate with a management degree, KV started his career as a medical representative with Alkem Laboratories. Though brief, the stint introduced him to what has today become critical knowledge in driving growth and business at Erfolg. With over 15 years working in leading banks like Grindlays and Standard Chartered, , KV went on to join Sundaram Housing where his exposure to rural India began. In 2007, he joined SKS Microfinance where he led operations. A successful IPO followed by the crisis that struck the microfinance industry in 2010, he saw the company through its revival and rebirth as Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd. These years gave him a deep understanding of the Indian rural markets and the importance of being agile and responsive to operational crises.  

In 2018, he joined hands with Ramesh and Nitesh to redefine the business model for Erfolg Life Sciences with a definite rural focus. KV’s professional strength is his thoroughness with execution. He is a team player and is able to motivate and drive large teams across geographies. 

He is passionate about music and is devoted to his two daughters. 

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Dr Sunil Sharma is Dean, Indian Spinal Injuries Center, Vasant Kunj. He is pioneer in infectious diseases/clinical microbiology with special expertise in establishing hospital infection control program. He was earlier HOD Clinical Microbiology and infection control at Medanta the medicity and Escorts Heart Institute. He was trained in infectious diseases at NYU Medical Center, New York and also worked as research associate at George Washington Univ Medical Center, Washington DC. Earlier he was head of public health laboratory of Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has delivered several talks on National TV and Radio. Dr Sharma has been guest speaker at various national and international forums. He has published several papers in national and international journals.

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Dr. Ashish Jain is the CEO at Healthcare Sector Skill Council. His key strengths are in Relationship Building, External Relations, Policy Advocacy, Communication, Strategy and Planning. He also has strong skills in maintaining and building relations with government ministries and department, institutions, academia and media. An effective communicator with excellent people management & leadership abilities.

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Mr. Shankha Banerjee is the Chief Growth Officer of Dr Lal Path Labs. He is an alumnus of Delhi College of Engineering and SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. He has also done ‘BP Sales and Marketing Leadership Development Course’ at Kellogs, USA. He worked for Castrol India Limited & BP Lubricants for 14 years and went on to become Global Market Space Manager. Later he joined Pidilite Industry Limited as President – Sales & Marketing:Middle East & Africa He joined Dr Lal PathLabs in July 2014 as Chief Operating Officer-Region II For his extraordinary performance, Mr. Shankha Banerjee has won several awards. He was felicitated with the BP Group Marketing Beacon Award for Best Advertising and Promotion Campaign in 2004, and was twice commended in the Annual BP Group Helios Award.

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Raviganesh Venkataraman is the Cheif Executive Officer at Cloudnine Group of Hospital. He is a Business Leader with Strategic and Operational experience – along the full value chain from Procurement to Sales, Strategy development to M&A – across varied Industries and geographies in India and Asia.

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Dr Santanu Chattopadhyay is an alumnus of INSEAD, Fontainebleau (2003) and Royal College of Physicians of London (1997) and holds a Master’s Degree in Internal Medicine from PGIMER, Chandigarh (1995). His career spans over two and half decades, spent in clinical medicine, healthcare start-ups, hospital administration and pharmaceuticals in India and abroad. He currently leads the hospital and provider businesses and artificial intelligence projects in 1mg.

During his tenure in the National Health Service (NHS), UK, Santanu worked as a Registrar at Barts & the London Medical School, as a Lecturer in Medicine at Queen Mary’s College and later as the Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology at the University Hospital of Leicester. After returning to India he founded NationWide, a award winning VC- funded chain of Primary care clinics. He was also an investor and founding chairman of Ovum hospitals, a chain of mother and child hospitals. In his last assignment he led two well-known hospitals of Kolkata (CMRI and BM Birla) as COO and Group Medical Director for CK Birla Hospitals.

Santanu has been listed as one of the top-25 Healthcare Influencers in India by Healthcare Executive, a well-known Indian healthcare industry publication in their January 2015 edition. He is passionate about application of technology for more affordable and accessible healthcare.

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Rashie Jain is the Co-Founder & CEO at Onco.com. Onco.com provides cancer treatment services for breast cancer, lung cancer, brain tumor, prostate cancer and other cancer types from expert cancer specialists. Onco.com We are building a virtual care platform for cancer patients.

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Vivek Rajagopal heads the Advanced Analytics & AI vertical at Narayana Health (NH). He carries an experience of 11 years pioneering data analytics, technology and innovation. He has been associated with NH for the last 8 years.

Vivek joined NH as VP-Strategy & Planning, working with the Group CEO to spearhead NH’s acquisitions and operational takeovers for close to 4 years. He put in place, structured financial analysis frameworks, valuation models for planning, evaluating and executing strategic expansions. He was pivotal in NH rapidly expanding its footprint during this period, with 2 major acquisitions adding close to 600 beds to consolidate its position in Eastern India and launching its first 250-bed hospital in Northern India.

Vivek, then undertook extensive efforts to create a separate vertical for Business Analytics. He single-handedly conceived, designed and developed the first version of the group’s real-time, fully automated, Business Intelligence system. Over the last 4 years, the vertical he created, has grown into a comprehensive advanced data analytics vertical covering Business Analytics, Clinical Analytics & AI. All the systems under his leadership have been completely developed in-house with a highly driven team of analysts, developers and statisticians. The analytics platform lies at the core of NH’s data-driven decision making and has resulted in significant monetary savings in addition to major improvements in processes across the group.

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Neeraj Lal has more than 17 Years experience in Healthcare Management. He has studied Masters of Hospital Administration( MHA) from TISS Mumbai. Specialist in Healthcare Operations Excellence, P & L, Business Development, Strategy & Quality. Approved as a Surveyor for ISQua’s International Accreditation Programme ( IAP). Have held senior positions in Indian Hospitals for a number of years. Certified Internal auditor for NABH, NABL and ISO 9001. Guest faculty with many Indian Universities and Business schools for teaching programs in Hospital Administration & healthcare quality.

He is the member of Regional Gujarat Chapter of Academy of Hospital Administration & QCI New Delhi, Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) Ahmedabad, Academy of Hospital Administration (AHA) Noida and Asian Society for Quality in Healthcare.

He was the validation panel member for Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions(CBAHI) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia along with Dr Lena Low, Executive Director Corporate & Surveyor Workforce, The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards too.

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Dr. Mudit Saxena is a clinician who started his career at a primary health center in rural India. He then trained to be an administrator with a Masters in Hospital Administration and MBA from IIM Bangalore. He pursued and successfully completed his academics with Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. and Singapore Management University. He is currently serving as Managing Director & CEO with Ovum Hospitals – a well-known chain of Birthing Hospitals. Prior to this he served as Group CEO for CARE Hospitals – the fifth largest chain of hospitals in India; he was also the COO for HCG Enterprises Ltd. – the leading Cancer Chain of Hospitals and Program Director at Fortis, Gurgaon. With over 22 years of experience in leadership roles in corporate, trust and public sector healthcare organizations, he is recognized for his deep and incisive knowledge on Indian Healthcare at both National and International platforms. Dr. Mudit has served as Chairperson, Key Speaker and Panelist at various international and national healthcare forums such as Chairman at the Healthcare World Asia Conference Singapore, Key Speaker at UK India Healthcare Summit at UK Parliament, London. He is one of the Mentors at HealthPod – an incubator which focuses specifically on healthcare start-ups from the seed stage onwards. Dr. Mudit has been awarded by ASIA One as the World’s Greatest Leaders in Asia and GCC (Healthcare) at Dubai in May 2017. He was also adjudged the Indian Affairs Health Administrator of the year 2017 at India Leadership Conclave, Mumbai in August 2017.

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