Healthcare in India: Innovation in Policy, Delivery and Industry

The following are the panelists:

	Anula Jayasuriya Managing Director, Evolvence India Life Sciences Fund Dr. Anula Jayasuriya is a life science venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of the "Evolvence India Life Science Fund" (EILSF), established in 2006 to make investments in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and related contract service companies based in India. She was previously a partner with Skyline Ventures in Palo Alto, and prior to that with the German - US venture capital firm TVM, in San Francisco. Anula's expertise consists of a unique combination of business, basic science and medical knowledge. Her prior positions include VP-Corporate development at Genomics Collaborative Inc., and Vice President, Global Drug Development at Hoffman-La Roche for opportunistic infections in AIDS and Transplantation. Top
	Pradep Nair Global Head & Vice President – Life Sciences, Healthcare and Chemical Practice, HCL Technologies Pradep Nair is Global Head & Vice President of the Life Sciences, Healthcare and Chemical practice at HCL Technologies, a $2 Billion IT services enterprise. In this role he is responsible for leading and improving the financial and operational performance of the practice in domestic and international markets, including setting strategy for revenue growth domestically while establishing delivery centers offshore with processes focused on quality. Pradep has led teams providing IT and design engineering services to Fortune 500 Life Sciences & Healthcare companies with emphasis on specialized services for hospital management, Concept to manufacturing of medical devices and Discovery to sales and marketing for Pharmaceutical companies. During his tenure, Pradep has enabled multiple companies to align IT with their business goals. Pradep holds a Bachelor in Engineering and also is accredited with an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management. He can be contacted at pnair@hcl.in. Top
	Dr. K. Srinath Reddy President, Public Health Foundation of India Prof. K. Srinath Reddy is presently President, Public Health Foundation of India and till recently headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Having trained in cardiology and epidemiology, Prof. Reddy has been involved in several major international and national research studies including the INTERSALT global study of blood pressure and electrolytes, INTERHEART global study on risk factors of myocardial infarction, national collaborative studies on epidemiology of coronary heart disease and community control of rheumatic heart disease. He is Coordinator of the Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in the Developing Countries (IC Health), a global partnership programme which promotes research for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in developing countries. He has served on many WHO expert panels and Chairs the Foundations Advisory Board of the World Heart Federation. He edited the National Medical Journal of India for 10 years and is on editorial board of several international and national journals. He has more than 250 scientific publications in international and Indian peer reviewed-journals. Prof. Reddy was awarded the WHO Director General’s Award for Global Leadership in Tobacco Control at the 56th World Health Assembly in May 2003. He was conferred the prestigious national award PADMA BHUSHAN by the President of India on the occasion of the 57th Republic Day of India, in 2005. The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, UK, awarded him the Queen Elizabeth Medal in 2005. He was elected Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (US National Academies) in 2004. He will receive the Luther Terry Award for outstanding leadership in Tobacco Control from the American Cancer Society and the Honorary Fellowship of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in UK, in March 2009. He has been recipient of research grants from the Indian Council of Medical Research, NIH (Fogarty), Wellcome Trust, WHO, British Heart Foundation and the Global Forum for Health Research. Top
	Amit M. Patel SVP & Head, North America Generics, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Amit Patel is a Management Council member and Senior Vice President at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, a publicly-traded (NYSE: RDY), India-based, global pharmaceutical company with $1Billion+ in annual revenue, 10000+ employees, and operations in 15+ countries. Amit’s primarily role is to serve as the Head of North America Generics, a business with $300million+ in annual revenue and 200+ employees spanning Bridgewater NJ, Charlotte NC, and Shreveport LA. Immediately prior to this role, Amit was Head of Global Corporate Development & Strategic Planning at Dr. Reddy’s, which involved select efforts in alliances, mergers & acquisitions, long-term planning, and investor relations. Amit was previously co-founder and CEO of a healthcare software startup called MedOnTime that was later acquired by CTIS, at which he served as Vice President of Corporate Development. Earlier, Amit was a strategy consultant with Marakon Associates. Amit received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A.S. in Systems Engineering from the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Top
	Bhaskar Chakravorti (Moderator) Partner, McKinsey & Company Bhaskar Chakravorti joined the HBS faculty in July 2008. He is also a Partner of McKinsey & Company, an international management consulting firm, where he is a leader of the Firm's Innovation practice and has served on its Knowledge Services Committee. At HBS, he will teach and write on entrepreneurship management and innovation. Bhaskar has advised CEOs, Boards and senior management of the global leaders in multiple industries (technology, health and consumer care and renewable energy) on innovation, growth and new business-building. In 15 years of consulting he has advised over 30 companies in the Fortune 500. He has helped start new businesses that have scaled up in established companies, re-positioned private equity portfolio companies for growth and has been involved in the public policy arena with regulators and on Capitol Hill. His clients and scope of work cover many geographies in addition to the U.S. and the EU: e.g., Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Canada, multiple African countries. Bhaskar's book, The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World, Harvard Business School Press; 2003, and over 35 articles are on the topics of innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy, decision-making and mechanism/organization design through applications of game theory. Bhaskar's book—selected as one of the Best Business Books of the year by multiple publications and an Amazon.com best-seller on Innovation —has been influential in many client and policy recommendations. His ideas and interviews have been featured in multiple media, e.g., BusinessWeek, The Economist, Fortune, BBC, Fast Company, Economic Times, CBS MarketWatch, Investors Business Daily, NECN-TV etc. as well as a documentary film on the open source movement. He has been invited to present, as a keynote speaker and as a panelist, to audiences in business, academia, an advisory committee to the U.S. president, public policy-making bodies (e.g., FCC, Capitol Hill), multi-lateral entities (e.g., World Bank, ITU), futurist think-tanks (e.g., Aspen Institute, GBN), research, and the VC and investor community. He was named among the top "new age gurus" by India's largest business newspaper, Economic Times, and has won awards for both scholarship and consulting. Bhaskar's prior appointments include: Partner and Thought Leader at the global strategy and merchant banking firm, Monitor Group; game theorist and member of the technical staff at Bellcore, the R&D labs for the Bell telephone companies; assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; officer of TAS, the executive cadre for the Tata Group, India's pre-eminent conglomerate. Bhaskar has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester, where he was a University Fellow, M.A. in economics from the University of Rochester and the Delhi School of Economics and a B.A. with Honors in economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University. He lives in Brookline, Mass. with his wife, two children and two cats. Top