Ram’s journey began with building Management Systems for over 110 organizations across geographies. In his next undertaking, he worked with an IT organization, successfully leading large multi-lateral funded projects. However, he realized that his true calling lay in entrepreneurship and making a positive impact to society, which led him to start MicroGrid along with Ananth Raj & Syam Srinivas. Ananth, Co-Founder & CPO with his 13+ years of experience, charts the product and technology roadmap. Syam, possessing over 16 years of IT experience, is the face of Technology at MicroGrid. They are joined by Jacob, who has over 4 decades of experience in Business Excellence & Sustainability initiatives, for Strategy & Governance.

Ram’s expertise in management systems and operations has been instrumental in building MicroGrid’s business interests. He has helped establish and strengthen the company’s operations, enabling it to deliver innovative solutions that address the healthcare industry’s most pressing technological challenges. Under his leadership, MicroGrid has developed a reputation for excellence, with a track record of delivering high-quality products and services to its clients.

Aside from his professional endeavours, Ram is an accomplished academic. He holds dual Masters in Public Administration and HRM, and is pursuing his Doctorate in Operations Management. His academic pursuits have allowed him to gain a deep understanding of business management principles and how they apply in real-world situations. This knowledge has been invaluable in shaping MicroGrid’s strategy and positioning it as a leader in Conversational AI for Healthcare.

Under his leadership, MicroGrid has swiftly transitioned into one of the most awarded Conversational AI platforms in healthcare. MicroGrid’s flagship offering, MIC (MicroGrid Intelligent Connect), is a CAIP which enables patients to access healthcare services in a convenient and personalized manner, while also supporting healthcare providers with valuable insights into patient needs and preferences.

MicroGrid has come a long way since its inception – from Incorporation and Ideation, to the creation of a world-class Conversational AI Platform, to implementing its solutions in multiple geographies, and finally, being recognised globally for redefining conversational experiences in the healthcare sector. However, the journey has just started, with many more milestones to achieve

But it was not an easy journey. He had to tackle every obstacle with determination and keep his eye on his goal, no matter what. He searched for ways to create an efficient system, sought out potential teammates, and got creative with resources. He remained open to new ideas and was always looking for ways to improve his business.

Despite the challenges he faced, his energy and vigor were contagious and inspired others to join in his mission. He was a leader who led by example, and his relentless pursuit of success rubbed off on everyone around him. He tested and refined theories and processes, made the right connections, took advantage of opportunities, and did not settle for anything less than the best.

The journey was arduous and grueling, but with the help of those around him, he persisted. He was unafraid to take risks and make tough decisions. He demonstrated an unwavering commitment to his vision, and his tenacity and resilience were admirable.

But his journey was not without setbacks. He faced numerous challenges and experienced many failures. However, he never lost sight of his vision, and he always bounced back stronger than ever. He demonstrated that even when the odds seem against you, with passion, hard work, and creativity, anything is possible.

And so, after years of perseverance and dedication, Mr. Goenka’s dream finally became a reality. His new company was a testament to his courage and his ability to bounce back despite any setback. He had created something from nothing, and he had done it with his own two hands. His journey was an adventurous one, full of twists and turns, but he never wavered in his pursuit of success.

In the end, Mr. Goenka’s journey serves as an inspiration to all of us. It shows that no matter how difficult the road may be, with hard work, dedication, and an unyielding spirit, anything is possible. He proved that the only limit to what we can achieve is the limit we set for ourselves.

Nutraceuticals are actually food products/ dietary products that have nutritional value which offers health or medicinal benefits. Their products are antioxidant rich health supplements made with probiotics and herbs, known to increase immunity.

Dr. Priyanka Gupta, Director, PAG Nutraceuticals Pvt Ltd is an enthusiastic head eager to contribute to team’s success through her perseverance and hard work. She pays attention to every detail necessary for growth and development of the company. Not only this, she is also has excellent organizational skills with clear understanding of research and development. 

Ambitious and highly motivated entrepreneur Dr Priyanka, surpasses demanding objectives and achieves or exceeds set goals within the given deadlines. She is an inspiring Professor who brings advanced teaching skills and department leadership experience. As a goal-oriented person to advance department, improve teaching and modernize courses has been her forte. She holds extensive background in research and development.

As the Co-founder of DOCO, he is currently revolutionizing how brands reach consumers in Bharat, leveraging the vast network of offline retailers and distributors in the general trade to reach over 1 billion consumers. Bhoopendra believes that the power of data and technology can unlock tremendous value for brands and retailers alike. The ML/AI-driven platform designed by DOCO is geared towards harnessing this power to help brands make informed decisions and unlock new growth opportunities.
Before DOCO, Bhoopendra was the Co-founder and CEO of KrishiHub, where he had a successful exit.

KrishiHub was dedicated to creating solutions for farmers to increase farming productivity and improve their socioeconomic status through a demand-driven B2B platform that connected farmers with businesses like restaurants and hotels. This AI-powered supply chain processes tonnes of vegetables daily, ensuring smooth end-to-end delivery and reducing vegetable wastage by up to 35% compared to the traditional system. As a result, Bhoopendra impacted more than 50,000 farmers’ lives by bringing down crop wastage below 4% from 30-35%, demonstrating his commitment to using technology to create a positive impact.

21+ Years of Experience in Quality Assurance & Computer Systems Validation

Anand brings over two decades of experience in successfully leading the design, development, manufacture and delivery of drug products through his expertise in the field of Quality Assurance and Computer Systems Validation. He works with Navitas Life Sciences to ensure the highest standards of safety and wellbeing for patients.

Safe & High-Quality Drugs & Services

Anand’s work with Navitas Life Sciences has resulted in a wide range of safe and high-quality drug products and services that meet regulatory requirements across multiple regulatory authorities. He has been instrumental in ensuring products and services are delivered with the highest quality standards, meeting both customer expectations and industry regulations.

Humble Beginnings to Transformational Growth

Anand is the first graduate from his village, and he had to walk 15 Km every day to reach his school. Wearing the weight of expectation from his entire village, and the perseverence to seek a new path for himself, Anand has successfully traversed new avenues of growth.

He is adept at leveraging his vast experience in quality assurance, contributing to conferences and seminars, and developing numerous resources on Quality Management systems and industry best practices. His team at Navitas Life Sciences has successfully hosted more than 250 inspections and audits from agencies and customers.

Unparalleled Expertise & Dedication

Anand’s dedication to excellence is unparalleled, making him a perfect fit for heading the Quality Assurance team at Navitas Life Sciences. His expertise has been invaluable in helping create safe and effective drug products for patients in need. This award is a testament to Anand C. Rao’s commitment and dedication to excellence, and his unwavering focus on achieving high quality in whatever he sets out to do.

His vision is to spread IFRS and Valuation training and consulting worldwide, to students from grass root level to excel in careers and to equip students to face future challenges, and make many startups successful. At the age of 67 years, he is an experienced faculty, having industry experience of 30 years, 30 years includes experience with Mukesh Ambani-Reliance and Mittal Group at London and Foundation Technology USA. As Global Finance Director, last 13 years training and consulting in IFRS and business valuation and startup advisory. He has given 2800 lectures so far, he is having students in 31 countries and 131 cities.

Through his journey he has done 100+ IFRS corporate implementations and carried out in 20+ industry sectors, 200+ valuation including overseas. He taught 6000+ students across globe and also taught big firms in India, Gulf, Europe and USA. With his remarkable leadership qualities to groom and coach young talents, he turns them into smart professionals.

He helped huge number of professional to get employment during covid and otherwise

mentor to thousands of professionals. His contributions are very valuable in setting up new business operations and in our education industry.

An alumnus of ISB, a chemical engineer from NIT, Warangal, with a Masters in Operations Management, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and a certified Project Management Professional, Kiran started his career as a process engineer and moved to business development and analytics, market research, strategy & operations, portfolio management, programme management, and capital expenditure project roles. Kiran is brining cost leadership into the market by digitizing and automating the operations to make medicines accessible, available, and affordable.

The journey has so far been challenging, educational, and rewarding on both professional and personal fronts. He worked with big, midsize, emerging, and early-stage start-up pharma companies. He has had the opportunity to work with business leaders, including angel investors, venture capitalists, high-net-worth individuals, private equity firms, and consulting firms. With this, he has developed a great capability to handle the business at any stage of its growth trajectory, irrespective of its size. His experience in technical, commercial, cross-cultural, and cross-border areas played a pivotal role in the sustainable growth of the organisation.    

He has executed very complex projects with globally distributed teams in areas spanning Enterprise IT Transformation, ERP, Cloud migration, Analytics, Data Warehouse, CRM, Portal, Content and Knowledge Management, and other business applications around a host of verticals including telecom, banking, retail, healthcare, real estate and manufacturing.

 He has deep skills in technology enabled Business Consulting, Cloud Advisory and Transformation. Debjit helped many organizations capture and disseminate information, essential for taking key business decisions, with the help of technology. He has worked with leading business houses to define the IT strategy roadmap and execution plan with KPI benchmarks.

Currently, Debjit is the Consulting Partner and Advisory Leader responsible for Tech Mahindra BE global technology and digital consulting practice and also led domain specific consulting. BE or Business Excellence is the consulting division within TechM. He is responsible for the strategy through execution of the digital, domain and technology Advisory practice including revenue, profitability, delivery, operations and analysts relations.

Necessitating the digital presence, doctors have had to manage offline operations, besides being available on aggregator platforms for teleconsultations, which have limited slots available during the day. In most cases, offline management including seeking clarifications, or appointments is managed through personal chats and calls.

In India, doctors come with the traditional notion that software is tough. They often feel that the prescription which they can write in two minutes will take five minutes using the software as they are not tech-savvy. So, if you can’t get a doctor to use software, which can give instructions to him from time to time, there is very little that they can do in terms of driving health outcomes.  In such a scenario, the solution was going digital.

At Cliniqally they help doctors to serve patients more efficiently in a limited time by offering a user-friendly technology for doctors and medical practitioners to manage their entire practice lifecycle online and offline. It is a complete digital manifestation of a local clinic, where doctors can create their virtual clinic in minutes and start taking in patients. They use a dashboard to manage their operations, boost efficiency, and have an improved work-life balance. From getting reminders, managing appointments and records of patients, managing staff, and expenses, checking revenue, generating prescriptions, and follow-ups, and improving patient retention, and simplifying clinic operations all can be done via a single app. In fact, with Cliniqally, medical practitioners can create their websites and market their brands on social media platforms. For the patient, it enables interaction with doctors through short links or apps.

With Cliniqally, doctors can enjoy improved efficiency and have a better work-life balance. Patient retention is bound to increase by 60%, revenue by 20%, and repeat consultations by 25%. Our all-in-one practice management tool helps doctors to digitize their practice and provide a single platform to manage their staff and clinic effectively.

Since they are working in agriculture field, it gives them the chance to help thousands of growers in terms of –

1. Robust financial support

As they are producing hybrid vegetable seeds and exporting the same to many countries which attracts high revenue to thousands of growers.

1. B) Strong Technical support

Compared to the conventional method, growers get the globally accepted high end technology from us which leads to more yield in their field.

1. Assured Income

Growers will get assured income compared to fluctuational conventional market method.

1. Jobs to next gen growers

Seed industry is providing challenging jobs to present generation even to lesser educated group.

1. Jobs to skilled work force

As seed production is labour intensive work, so this industry is providing job to N number of labourers.

Through the brand they also attracting customers globally by –

1. Connecting foreign customers to India

Irrespective of tough competition from chain, by providing high quality seeds they are able to attract many customers from different parts of the world.

1. Generating valuable revenue in dollars

As their entire seeds are exported, so they are able to produce valuable and much needed foreign revenue.

1. Pulling foreign technology to India

As they have to provide globally accepted quality seeds so they have to use global technology which they get from their customers or from our joint ventured companies which is the most valuable; through which the grower community is becoming techno savvy. 

Another important factor that they emphasis on is Global team development. The key areas they focus on are

1. Technical workforce

During the process of global product output, they have the responsibility to develop the best fine-tuned team which is the best opportunity to the Indian youths.

1. Global opportunity to Indian Youths

With attention from global community and experience, the youths are getting global opportunity to grab the jobs globally.

Mr Raghavendra Ponarkar has also been recognised for exemplary contribution. Some of his accolade includes-

• “Best Exporter Award in Gold Category” by Govt. of Karnataka in 2011-12 & 2012-13
• “Export Excellence Award” by FKCCI , Bangalore in 2012 & 2013
• “Prestigious Vanijya Ratna Award” by KCCI Hubballi in 2013

• Bagged “Prestigious Indian Achievers Award 22-23” from IAF India
• Took “Prestigious Certificate of Merit” from GMI and NHRDI