Mr.Jignesh Patel has 14+ years of leadership experience in Business Development, Channel Sales, Sales & Marketing Strategy. Even when his corporate career was going from strength to strength, his passion lay in becoming a social entrepreneur. He wanted to be a change-maker in the field of healthcare, a dream that lay hold of his heart for nearly 8 years. In 2018, he joined The Foundation for Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) at IIT Hyderabad. The research of 1 year at IIT Hyderabad helped him understand the on-ground bottlenecks of the Vaccination Delivery model in India (and also in various developing nations worldwide). He envisages an organized and customised Vaccination Service for India as an answer to the issue by introducing India’s 1st Doctor-based Mobile Vaccination Clinic in 2019 – VaccineOnWheels as part of the 1st division of Jivika Healthcare and successfully served 2.7+ Million Hard-to-reach people with 200+ Mobile Vaccination Units in 40+ Districts and 6 States.
Jignesh Patel is working towards building infrastructure and being the pioneer in the space of Mobile Medical Services – taking healthcare services near patients’ homes and communities. Keeping this vision into action, Jivika Healthcare has introduced its 2nd division ChemoAtHome – taking hospital-like chemotherapy and cancer care facilities to patients’ doorstep. Under its 3rd Division
PublicPrivatePartnerships, Jivika introduced one-of-its-kind Health & Wellness Center (HWC) On Wheels – a holistic screening facility on wheels to screen 20+ disease conditions including the top 3 cancer (oral cancer, breast and cervical), eye screening (cataract & glaucoma), ANC, family planning etc.
Under the strong leadership of Jignesh Patel, Jivika Healthcare has made it to the YourStory TechSparks Top 30 Most Influential Startups Of India. It is also recognized as an “Innovative Startup” by StartupIndia and has won the CSRUniverse Social Impact Award 2022 & MIT University’s R.I.D.E Startup Of the Year Award 2022.
Regarded as COO (Chief Operating Officer), Mr.Krunal Mehta is a qualified professional with an extensive background in leading Sales, Customer Relationship Management, Operations, Purchase, Stock and Revenue, and Recruitment. A major chunk of his 13+ years of experience has been at various organisations, where he acquired expertise in designing & implementing business strategies, plans and procedures; setting comprehensive goals for performance and growth; establishing policies that promote company culture and vision; overseeing daily operations of the company and the work of cross-functional executives.
As an individual, he is a self-starter with excellent prospecting, relationship-building, and presentation skills. He demonstrates strategic leadership ability with an in-depth understanding of the industry including risk management, compliance & regulatory requirements. Furthermore, he possesses outstanding organizational abilities, and interpersonal and public speaking skills. He has a strong orientation in maintaining and building trusted relationships with key customers, clients, partners, and stakeholders and is capable of managing a complex enterprise’s human resources, finances, operations and strategies.
One of his skill sets includes working collaboratively to develop and/or improve systems, processes, controls and procedures that improve the overall efficiency of the organization and ensure excellent client service.
Ex Sr. Advisor, Dep. Director. BMGF Ex Director, PATH
Mr. Arun Venkatesan is the Co-founder and CEO of Villgro, USA. His focus and interest lie in ‘Helping Impact Incubators Succeed and Scale’ through training, mentoring and capacitating incubators across the globe. He has a keen interest in fostering an organizational culture of innovation.
He has worked with various small-scale and start-up companies in the US and India, leveraging academic research groups and independent development teams in a product development capacity.
He has extensive experience in coordinating development projects using external vendors for rapid turnaround of various product components. He also holds an interest in supporting the development of affordable and sustainable products for resource-limited markets.
Co-Founder and CEO at Villgro USA
Mr. Ajay Dubey is a global business leader and a senior technology executive with over 4 decades of work experience with consulting & technology services companies like Infosys,Persistent, Patni Computers and Uniken.
He has a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Ex VP – Infosys
Mr. Ravi Kapoor holds over 30 years of experience. He is a member of the Institute of Directors and has recently qualified to become an Independent Director on the Board of listed and unlisted companies registered in India. His past professional engagements involve utilizing and continuously enriching the width & depth of his work experience in some or all of the functional areas mentioned above. Today, he is a cofounder and runs an independent consulting firm that is well positioned to advise overseas clients on setting up, navigating & entrenching their businesses in India by utilizing his past experience with leading MNCs as well as his large network of professionals, from a variety of industries and sectors.
He is empanelled as a member of the Independent Director’s Data Bank. He has recently passed the Proficiency Test and is now qualified to accept position of Independent Director in a company.
Executive Director & Co-founder Indus Business Advisors
Dr Keerti is a public health management professional with 25+ years of experience in Healthcare Ecosystem and Academia.
He is an adviser to many health and development organisations in India and other developing nations in Asia & Africa. His innovative strategic inputs has helped Organizations turn around and achieve desired Goal.
He is also a passionate teacher, trainer and mentor to students of public health, health management and digital health management with guidance on patents, innovation and publications linked to humanity and societal unmet needs.
With his length and breadth of experiences and exposures we have invited him to be part of our Board of Advisers.
Dr Keerti has a Master’s from Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai and Management of International Public Health mid career course from Emory University USA besides PhD in Responsible Innovation and Strategic Management.