Dr V K Singh superannuated as Surgeon R Admiral after 37 years in national & international assignments. He is MBBS, Masters in Hospital Administration, Diplomate National Board in Hospital and Health Care Management, Fellow of Academy of Hospital Administration (AHA) and M Phil. He was awarded Distinguished Services Medal for services at Zambia by the President of India and commendation by Zambia. He had been deputy chief medical officer of United Nations, visited/served in 39 countries, adjunct professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) Zaragoza, Spain, Director of Healthcare Asia for Lean Healthcare Excellence-Simpler, Chairman Board- Indian Society of Health Professionals, and consultant of National Disaster Management Authority. He was president of AHA, founder director of International Institute of Health Management Research, Adjunct research Professor- International Health Innovation Centre, Ivey School of Business, Canada, Chairman, Health Care Division of Quality Council of India. Developed European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model for Healthcare in India released by Union Health Minister. Presently, MD-IC and Chairman ICFHE and Adjunct Professor-World Health Innovation Network, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Canada. He is also an Honorary Professor at Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquaire University, Australia. Visiting professor of Indian Institute Management and Indian Institute of Technology. He has also authored two books “Innovations in Healthcare Management: Cost-Effective and Sustainable Solutions” published in USA, 2015 which has been awarded Shingo Award of Repute in 2018 and has a special India edition adopted by reputed Management schools and another book published on “Planning and designing healthcare facilities – A lean innovative evidence based approach”, published in USA.
Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Over the past two years, he has been a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. Dr. Sethi specializes in improving outcomes in neonatal, child and maternal health by bridging medicine and artificial intelligence. His research is focused on development and deployment of machine-learning based solutions to enable decisions and policy in pressing healthcare questions such as antimicrobial resistance, sepsis and health inequalities in intensive care and public health settings. He has authored over 20 research articles and has been a recipient of MIT-TR35 India Innovators under 35, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Award. He is an editorial board member of PLOS One, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics. Dr. Sethi is a member of the European Association of Systems Medicine and leads the Australasia region for International Association of Systems and Networks Medicine (IASyM).
QUALIFICATIONS
- BBS (Univ. of Delhi): 1988-91; MBA (IIM Ahmedabad): 1995-97
- Certificate Courses through coursera.org: 2017-19
- New Technologies for Business Leaders: Rutgers University New York: 85%
- Private Equity & Venture Capital: University of Bocconi: 92%
- Leadership: HEC Paris: 87%
- Building Your Leadership Skills: HEC Paris: 90%
WORK EXPERIENCE
- 8 years in start-up and incubation eco-system
- 2020 onward at IIITD-IC
- 2017-20 at Univ of Delhi
- 2015-17 in London
- 22 years in corporate strategy, consulting, and leadership roles across global brands (Deloitte, EY, American Express, Synovate, Godfrey Phillips, etc.)
CORE COMPETENCIES
Innovation, growth and problem-solving, risk assessment, implementation of plans/strategy.
KEY STRENGTHS
Experience across many sectors and countries; strong network built over the years; Excellent understanding of collaborative working with host/academic institution; entrepreneurial mindset and capabilities to solve problems; Understanding and experience of leveraging R&D for product development as per market needs
Sachin Gaur is a researcher cum entrepreneur in space of mobile and Internet solutions. He was in top 10 innovators in India under India Innovates Growth Programme 2013 by FICCI. He has founded/invested in multiple ventures in the domain of digital marketing, mobile solutions and Internet of Things. He has a double M.Sc. (Tech) in Mobile Security and Cryptography from Aalto University, Finland and University of Tartu, Estonia. He has worked in past with organizations like Adobe, C.E.R.N. (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) and in research at the Aalto University in security related topics. He also has a dozen patents issued/pending in USPTO apart from contributing book chapters in two books on topics of Innovation and Healthcare.
Dr. Jaspreet Kaur Dhanjal is an Assistant professor in the Department of Computational Biology at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India. Before joining IIIT-Delhi in 2021, she received her PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) in 2019, and then worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Japan. Her research interests have been at the interface of computation, cellular and molecular biology. In particular, she is interested in studying disease pathologies in the context of personalized medicine, with special focus on cancer and rare diseases. She is also interested in exploring the mechanism of action of bioactive compounds from natural sources. She has recently been awarded with the Har Gobind Khorana-Innovative Young Biotechnologist award by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
Mr. Bengani has an impressive academic background, earning a Bachelor’s Degree from the prestigious Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore. In addition, he is a professional member of the Association of Computing Machinery, USA. He is also a WIPO Certification in Patents from Geneva, Switzerland. He has also done an MDP program in Digital Libraries from IIM Kozhikode and ISO 9000:2000 Diploma from the Indian Institute of Quality Management, Jaipur.
He has widely traveled within India and abroad and done business with diverse clients – across Academic, Corporate, and Government funded projects over 23 years.
Currently, he is working as Head – of Business Development and Partnership at iHub Anubhuti IIIT Delhi and has collaborated with MAX Healthcare, AICTE, Shoolini University,Health Parliament, Bennett University, and NIMS University. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Bengani served in various leadership positions in RELX ELSEVIER – Health Science Division(ClinicalKey). He has worked in Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, National Geographic Learning (Cengage), EDUTECH India, LexisNexis India, and iGroup Asia Pacific, Singapore.
Mr. Saurabh Kumar Chaubey is Chief Executive Officer at IHUB ANUBHUTI IIITD FOUNDATION. IHUB ANUBHUTI is an innovation hub set up by Dept of Science and Technology and IIIT Delhi to foster research and startups in area of Cognitive Computing and Social Sensing. He has done MBA from IIM Raipur and B.E. from BIT Durg. He has experience of developing innovation and startup ecosystem in state of Chhattisgarh, TamilNadu, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi. Previously, he had set up Atal Incubation Centers in Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu. He handled DST incubator at IIT Mandi in his previous assignment. Earlier he worked in Software, Banking and Investment sectors and worked with MNCs HSBC Bank, IDBI Bank and TCS. He did his startup venture in Edutech domain.
