He actively mentors, incubates and funds start-ups and is promoter of several Indian consumer Internet and ecommerce companies including Bigbasket.com – India’s largest eGrocery company, Bluestone.com – leading online jewelry company, Avagmah.com – India’s fastest growing online education company and HomeLane – India’s leading end to end, vertically integrated interior design and manufacturing provider which delivered more than 1000 projects delivered across the country. In addition, his angel investments include little eye labs (acquired by Facebook in Jan 2014), mustseeIndia.com, overcart.com delyver.com, onlineprasad.com, Pokkt, SilverPush and Oximity.

Previously, Ganesh founded of the data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE listed WNS for $ 63 MM.
His previous venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid-2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India’s largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions.

In 1990, he founded his first company – IT&T, one of India’s top multi-vendor IT service and support company. The business was acquired by iGate (a listed company) in 2003.
Ganesh has also worked as the CEO of Wipro/Bharti British Telecom – a British Telecom JV in India, and held a senior management position in HCL Ltd.

He is also a popular speaker in entrepreneurship, start-up and technology events. He has been recognized as one of the “Iconic Entrepreneurs of India” in a document published by National Knowledge Commission, Government of India.
He serves as a member of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Krishnan is a post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.

Vaibhav has over 18 year’s diversified experience in building new businesses across Industries such as Business Process Outsourcing, Technology and Supply Chain Management.
He was the co-founder and CEO-India at iSeva, a leading BPO Company, and grew it to 2200 employees in 5 years prior to its acquisition by e4e in 2005. iSeva also consistently ranked amongst the best BPO companies to work for in India. Post the acquisition, he was the President at e4e managing India Operations across 4 centers and 3500 people till 2007. Subsequently, he co-founded and ran o2s360, a B2B distributor loyalty and coupon management software company for 4 years.
In his last assignment, Vaibhav was the Chief Marketing Officer at Microland, a leading IMS Services company. He was responsible for global marketing and services strategy functions of the company. He successfully launched the Cloud Services for the company including forging partnerships with technology majors like VMware and Citrix etc.
He has worked with Citibank and Saint-Gobain in the early part of his career. Vaibhav has been an accomplished speaker at many forums and events like InterOp, CII, TiE and Cloud Connect etc. He has also published numerous papers and articles with many leading publications over the years. He has been actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship and serves on Advisory Board for many start-ups. Vaibhav is a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur and a MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Deepti has a work experience of about 14 years. She has worked with Hindustan Unilever, Hindustan times, LimeRoad, Vodafone and Voonik.
She comes with a rich experience in the areas of B2B & B2C marketing, ATL & BTL, brand management, CRM, product management and GTM strategy.
She likes solving problems through technology and has created products using gamification to enhance customer engagement. Before joining us she was heading Brand & Customer experience at Voonik.

Sachin Verma is the Vice President – Operations at Portea. He has over 17 years of accomplished operations experience in healthcare, hospitality sector and pharmacy retailing. Previously, he has been the President – Retail at Glocal healthcare Systems based out of Kolkata. He was also the Deputy General Manager of North India Retail Operations at Apollo Pharmacy based out of Delhi.  He is a Hotel Management Graduate, MBA and a Black Belt in Six Sigma.

Saritha has over 24 years of experience in areas of Human Resources, Service Delivery, and TQM. With Management and HR qualifications from MAHE and XLRI, she has worked extensively on designing and implementing various HR processes, Learning & OD solutions, Talent Management Programs, Service Delivery Management, Six Sigma & Total Quality Management., Transformational Projects, Human Process Labs, Designing and Delivery of Leadership Capability Building etc.

She is professionally certified by T V Rao Institute to design and run Assessment Centers in addition to being a Black Belt in Six Sigma and a certified practitioner of psychometric tools like MBTI and FIRO-B..

Until recently,  he was the Group Medical Director and Chairman – Quality council, MHE  which manages 16 Hospitals located in 6 states with 5000 beds and was responsible for Group Medical Operations, standardization and implementation of Quality system across all Hospitals of MHE, Clinical Research and mitigation of Medico Legal risks. Also responsible for the management of all “Managed/Teaching Hospitals” by the group. .

He has over 30 years of rich experience in Health care management with various National and International Organizations in senior managerial positions & Board positions and proved his expertise as:

• Regional Director – Asia – AMCARE INTERNATIONAL – an affiliate of the Johns Hopkins International, USA – was responsible for their Middle East and Far East operations.
• Managing Director – Amcare Labs – Malaysia
• Chief Operating Officer – Canadian Specialist Hospital – Dubai – UAE.
• Medical Director – Fortis Heart Institute, Chandigarh, India
• Executive Director – Welcare Hospital– Dubai – UAE
• Executive and Medical Director- Sea Horse Hospital– Trichy.

He brings with him, a rich multicultural experience with internationally recognized healthcare facilities in India, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates.

He has excellent people management skills with immense experience in the delivery of quality initiatives, training and staff development.

AWARDS:

“Doctor’s Day Award” (Dr. B.C, Roy Award) by Govt. Of Karnataka.

Awarded “Distinguished Alumni” by Manipal University

“Certificate of Appreciation” by Indian Medical Association 

FELLOWSHIP & MEMBERSHIP:

• Principal Coordinator – Federation of Healthcare Associations (FHA), Karnataka
• National Academic Coordinator – Association of National Board Institutions  (ANBAI)
• President – Indian Medical Association (IMA): South East Branch
• Executive Director – Bangalore Chapter of “Academy of Hospital Administration”
• Leader – Medical Value Travel Group of the Tourism Expert Committee of the Bangalore Chambers of Industry and Commerce (BCIC)
• Adjunct Professor – Department of Hospital Administration, Manipal University
• Immediate Past President – Private Hospitals and Nursing Home Association (PHANA)
• Immediate Past President – Association of National Board  Institutions  (ANBAI) – Karnataka chapter
• Health Service Committee member – Federation of India Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – Bangalore
• Chairman – Scientific and International Collaboration Committee – Academy of Hospital Administration (AHA)
• Organizing Chairman – CAHOTECH 2017
• Advisory Committee member – Innovating Care Asia Pacific 2017 (ICAP 2017), Malaysia
• Auditor – National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH)
• Member – Accreditation Board for Healthcare Sector Skill Council – India (HSSC)
• Member – Executive committee of ‘Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organizations (CAHO)
• Member – Advisory Board- IBS, Bangalore
• Fellow of Academy of General Education (FAGE)
• Member – Indian Society of Health Administrators & Karnataka Medical Council
• Member – Federation of Hospital Administrators of India
• Organizing Chairman – SASH 2014 (National Conference on Safe and Sustainable Hospitals)
• Organizing Secretary – CAHOCON 2015 (1st National Conference of Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organizations)
• Organizing Chairman – Global Manipal Alumni Meet 2016 (GMAC2016)
• Advisory Member – CAHOCON 2017 International Annual Conference for Healthcare Administrators)
• Organizing Committee Chairman – Awards for Excellence in Post Graduate Medical Education and Examination 2017
• Former Associate Fellow of Australian College of Health Services Executives
• Co Organizing Secretary – SASH 2018 (National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Health Care Management -Safe and Sustainable Hospitals)