Carrying the Apollo Hospitals beacon of healing, Preetha Reddy perseveres relentlessly to make advanced healthcare accessible to all in need and also in making India, a preferred global healthcare destination. In addition to her organizational responsibilities, she works closely with the Government of India to advance policy decisions on healthcare. She is a Ms. Preetha Reddy Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited member of the India-US and India-Malaysia CEOs Forum. A nominated Member of CSIR, she is also on the Governing Council of NATHEALTH. Committed to service, Preetha Reddy has helmed several social endeavours to assist the medical needs of the financially challenged population in India.
Mr. Rahul Khosla is President, Max Group, and Chairman, Max India, Max Life and Max Healthcare. Under his leadership, the Max Group has delivered superior financial performance, significantly grown market capitalization, and concluded seminal corporate transactions. He led the mega-restructuring of the erstwhile Max India into three new listed entities and is currently spearheading the proposed merger of Max Life and Max Financial Services with HDFC Life, which will result in the creation of India s largest private life insurance company. Before joining Max, Mr. Khosla spent 11 years based in Singapore as the Group Head of Products at Visa Inc for Asia Pacific, Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, following his role at Visa Inc as Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Pacific region. He held several senior roles prior to this as Country Head for ANZ Grindlays consumer banking businesses in India; Head of Retail Assets, Strategy, Finance and Legal at Bank of America.
(HONY) BRIGADIER DR ARVIND LAL, PADMA SHRI Brig. Arvind Lal is a pioneer in bringing laboratory services in India at par with the Western world. He is an alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, having received his graduate and post-graduate medical degrees from the prestigious institute. In 1977,Brig. Lal took charge of Dr Lal PathLabs, the medical diagnostics laboratory founded in 1949 by his late father. Under his expert guidance and leadership, Dr Lal PathLabs(LPL) has become one of the most reputed laboratories in Asia having to its credit a record of 28 labs accredited from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) with another 4 labs in the pipeline. He brought International recognition to the Indian Healthcare Industry in the form of accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP - USA). Currently they operate over 175 labs, including Asia s biggest lab at Rohini, New Delhi with 1,600 collection centers and pick-up samples from another 7,000 medical establishments all over India. The lab tests over 50,000 patients every day; in 2015 they tested over 12 million patients. Dr. Lal has revolutionized laboratory medicine by introducing the maximum number of new tests, instruments and ICT (Information, Communications, Technology) systems in India. His R & D unit has done India proud by developing the latest tests in Molecular Diagnostics, Cytogenetics, Genetics and many more. The aim of the R&D division is to provide highly specialized tests at low cost to the weaker sections of the society. Dr. Lal is a member of many expert and advisory bodies constituted by the central and the state governments. He is accredited to having the first PPP (Public Private Partnership) in the field of laboratory testing with the Govt. of Tripura since 2004 and later with Govt. of Gujarat for testing over 30,000 new born babies in 2011-2012. He is currently the Senior Vice President of NATHEALTH, Healthcare Federation of India. He is also the Chief of the Academic Council of IIHMR (International Institute of Health Management Research), New Delhi. Dr. Lal is also an active member of National Healthcare Committees of CII, FICCI & ASSOCCHAM and has played a significant role in
promoting the Indian Healthcare sector abroad. He is also leading the Healthcare Sector Skill Council (HSSC) Curriculum Development Committee for Paramedical Training in the field of Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Lal was appointed as the Honorary Physician to the President of India in 2001. He has also been serving as a pathologist to almost all the past and present Presidents and Prime Ministers of India. His laboratory is the nodal laboratory testing the largest number of government employees in India from CGHS, ECHS, Ministry of Railways, Delhi Government and many others. He has been invited as the Keynote Speaker at IIM- Ahmedabad and also by the Harvard Business School, USA. Conferred with the Padma Shri, Brig. Lal is also the first civilian doctor to be granted an honorary Brigadier s rank in Armed Forces Medical Services. He is also the recipient of many other awards from various national and international organizations. Dr. Lal has been conferred with the Entrepreneur of the Year award by All India Management Association (AIMA) in 2016.
Jun Zhang India Country Head IFCSouth Asia World Bank Group Jun Zhang is IFC Country Head for India, based in New Delhi. Junjoined the World Bank Young Professionals Program in 1990 in Washington, DC, and served as Infrastructure Economist in the Indonesia Country Department upon graduation from the program. He moved to IFC Capital Markets Department in 1992, and subsequently worked in various IFC global, regional and industry departments. As Investment Officer, he led a number of early IFC s equity investments in the Chinese banking and non-banking financial sector. In 2005, Junmoved base to Mumbai to IFC South Asia Department as Financial Sector Manager, where he led IFC investment and advisory programs in financial institutions in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. From 2010 through 2015, he was IFC Senior Regional Manager for the Caribbean, based in the Dominican Republic. After a short stay in Washington, DC as Chief Investment Officer in the HQ Financial Institutions Group, he was appointed as Senior Country Manager for India at the end of 2015. Mr. Zhang holds a Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), M.A. from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and B.A. from Zhongshan University in China.
PROFILE OF MR.C.K. MISHRA Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare Government of India C.K. Mishra joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1983 and currently heading the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. As Additional Secretary & Mission Director, National Health Mission, ledone of the largest public health programme. In more than 30 years of public service, C. K. Mishra has served as an administrator, policy-maker and public health strategistholding a wide range of assignments in the fields of Health, Education, Industry and Power. C.K. Mishra is recognised for his significant contributions to improving the Indian Public Health landscapeand serves as Co-Chair of Partnership for Maternal Neonatal & Child Health (PMNCH)and a member of the Global Reference group providing strategic direction for Family Planning 2020 initiatives. He brings in a unique country perspective to the current global discourse on transition from MDGs to SDGs and is a vociferous advocate of global strategies being driven by country specific needs and contexts. He has been in the Department since July 2013. Born in Patna, Bihar, C.K. Mishra earned his Bachelor s Degree in History (Hons) from St. Stephens College, Delhi University. In addition to this, he has received a Post Graduate Diploma in Media Law at NALSAR, Hyderabad. He has also completed the Advanced Leadership Programme from Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), Australia. 1
Mr Anjan Bose Secretary General NATHEALTH -Healthcare Federation of India Mr Anjan Bose is the Secretary General of Healthcare Federation of India. Modelled on the lines of NASSCOM, NATHEALTH is intended to play a pivotal role in empowering Indian Healthcare and bring quality healthcare closer to every Indian. He was President of Philips Healthcare and Philips Consumer Lifestyle businesses for India and Indian subcontinent countries. He is also the immediate past Chairman of FICCI Health Services Committee and was the Founder-Chairman of Medical Equipment Forum (MEF) of FICCI. He started his career as a Service Engineer with Philips Medical more than 30 years ago and has been in various important functions within Healthcare and Consumer Lifestyle industries in various countries. He has worked as a Regional Manager in the Philips Headquarters in Holland and also led organizations like Hewlett-Packard Medical in South Asia and Emerging Markets in Asia. He was also a Council Member of the European Business Group. Mr.Bose is an Electronics & Electrical Communications Engineer from IIT, Kharagpur and has successfully participated in many leadership/management programs over the years including from Michigan University. FORMERLY: *President, Philips Healthcare, India & Indian Subcontinent *President, Philips Consumer Lifestyle, India & Indian Subcontinent *Regional Manager, Philips Medical Systems, Holland (in global head-quarters) *Vice President & Head, Medical Products Group, Hewlett-Packard India *South Asia Director, Medical Products Group, Hewlett-Packard *Managing Director, Datex- Ohmeda India and Indian sub-continent *Chairman, Health Services Committee, FICCI *Member, National Executive Committee, FICCI *Founding Chairman, Medical Electronics Forum, FICCI *Chairman, Medical Equipment Division, CII
*Member, National Healthcare Committee, CII *Council Member, European Business Group