Board of Directors

Mr. Shivinder Mohan Singh, aged 36 years, one of our Promoters and a Director of our Company was an alumnus of Doon School and an Honours graduate in Mathematics from St. Stephens College, Delhi and has done his MBA with specialization in health sector management from the Duke University Business School, USA.
He is the Managing Director of Fortis Healthcare (India) Limited. He is a young entrepreneur who aims to change the way Healthcare is delivered in the world. He is also one of the principal promoters of Religare Enterprises Limited, Super Religare Laboratories Limited and Fortis Clinical Research Limited. He was, till recently, one of the key promoters of Ranbaxy Laboratories and served as Director on the Board of the Pharma Major. He played a strategic role in the sale of Ranbaxy, thereby taking the company to the next level and creating significant long term value for all stakeholders.
Mr. Shivinder’s significant contribution in Indian Healthcare is widely acknowledged. His strategy for Fortis and its execution has been recognized by Harvard Business School in the form of a case study. He has been playing an important and active role in shaping the private healthcare space in India. He was the Chairperson of Health Services Committee of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). Presently, he is the Chairperson of FICCI Youth Committee and Board member of Indo British Partnership Network (IBPN), Board Member of National Accreditation Board for Hospital and Healthcare Providers (NABH) and chair of the healthcare committee of UKTI (UK Trade & Investment). He is also on the National Board of Advisors of AIESEC, a global, non-political, independent, not-for-profit organization run by students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education. Even though healthcare is a passion for Mr. Shivinder, his dream is to see a vibrant India in his lifetime. This motivates him to get involved in various activities directed towards bringing about positive social change in our country and engaging with different aspects of Building India. He is also one of the trustees of an NGO ‘Joining Hands’. In addition to this, he is also keenly involved in various CSR initiatives focused on the Girl Child, HIV education, providing quality healthcare to Rural India to name a few. Mr. Shivinder is on the Board of Visitors of Fuqua School of Business; Duke University, U.S. and a fellow of Aspens India Leadership Initiative. He is also a Director of Step by Step school. Mr. Singh joined our Board on October 11, 2010.

Mr. Harpal Singh, aged 61 years, holds a Bachelor’s (honours) degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the California State University at Hayward, California, U.S.A. Mr. Singh has had diverse experience of over 36 years in the corporate sector and has held senior positions in various companies including TATA group companies, Hindustan Motors Limited, Mahindra and Mahindra Limited and Shaw Wallace. Mr. Singh was in the past the Non-Executive Chairman of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited and is the Mentor and Chairman Emeritus of Fortis Healthcare (India) Limited. Further, he is also associated at the board level with some of India’s most renowned schools which include the Doon School, the Scindia School, the Yadavindra Public School and Salwan School where, he is Vice Chairman of the Trust. Mr. Singh is also a member of the National Round Table on School Education and is a member of the Board of Governors of IIT, Indore and NIIT University.He is also a member of India-UK Round Table, India-US Strategic Dialogue and of the Public Health Foundation of India. Further, he is Founder and Chairman Trustee of NanhiChhaan and Chronic Care Foundations. Mr. Singh is also the Chairman of INDIA 800 Foundation, India Office. Mr. Singh is currently the Chairman of the Save the Children, India and is also a Director of the Global Board of Save the Children International. He joined our Board on October 11, 2010.

Mr. Sunil Godhwani, aged 50 years, holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Finance from Polytechnic Institute of New York. Mr. Sunil Godhwani is the Chairman and Managing Director of Religare Enterprises Limited (“REL”). He spearheads REL’s management and global operations, strategizing and directing it through its next phase of growth. He believes in nurturing a culture that is entrepreneurial, result oriented, customer focused and based on teamwork. He has given strategic direction to REL’s growth since his joining in 2001. He has been instrumental and endeavours to take the REL to new heights by managing various acquisitions, finding new partners for joint ventures and exploring new avenues for the business. Under his overall supervision REL has emerged as a force to reckon with and enjoys a leadership position in its businesses and has also achieved further expansion of activities in other areas in a profitable manner. The growth in the financial services industry achieved by REL is also marked by the involvement of international strategic partners such as Aegon in Life Insurance and Macquarie in Wealth Management as well as through the acquisition of majority stake in entities such as Northgate Capital and Landmark Partners. He has a wide-ranging experience of over two decades in managing large scale businesses. He has been awarded with many awards and accolades. He has been conferred ‘India Business Leader of the Year’ award at the Global Indian Business Meeting hosted by Horasis, in Madrid, Spain and “CEO of the year Award” at CEO CLUBS INTERNATIONAL Awards. Mr. Godhwani joined our Board on October 11, 2010.

Mr.Maninder Singh Grewal, aged 59 years, isa graduate in Mechanical Engineering with a B. Tech (Hons.) degree from IIT, Kharagpur, and has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology sector. He has been involved with growth and evolution of the industry right from DOS to cloud/Saas/ tablets and from basic spread sheets to social networking era. In the 1990s, he set up an Apple dealership recognising the potential of the brand and of the Apple OS. Having general management, sales and marketing experience in the IT industry, Mr. Grewal has successfully played the end to end role of formulating strategies, implementing and executing them excellently. He was associated with Wipro from its start up days as their principal vendor in the North and was instrumental in setting up Ludhiana Stock Exchange / Securities IT migrating from manual trading to computerization. He has done successful implementations of ERPs on Solaris, Linux and Windows and helped computerize branches of State Bank of India, Punjab & Sind Bank and Bank of India among others. His experience in Healthcare and healthcare IT goes back to 1989 when he was instrumental in the systems and the software that got implemented in 2 major 750+ bed teaching hospitals in North India. In the imaging and diagnostic space he has been working on interoperability and on projects for cross referencing imaging across technology sets leading upto electronic medical records and healthcare information exchanges/CRM systems. He joined Religare Group in 2006 and has been instrumental in the growth of the IT vertical comprising the Company and the finance IT vertical and its constituent companies from scratch to group revenue of over 200 Cr with over 1500 employees globally. He has been a driving force to making IT a key enabler in business decisions and execution going beyond mere reporting and dashboards. His experience and recognition of the potential of enabling technologies like SaaS/Cloud/Android /IOs etc. and knowledge of how these can be interfaced with business, is a key attribute and special passion. He has given many keynotes in Industry forums and is widely known throughout industry as an innovative and game changing technocrat. He is widely travelled and is an avid Bridge player. Mr. Grewal joined our Board on October 11, 2010.

Mr. PadamBahl aged 59 years, is an Independent Director in our Company. Mr. Bahl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the Kurukshetra University and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has also received a Diploma in Information System Audit from SSI, Amritsar. Mr. Bahl has been practicing as a Chartered Accountant and an income tax advisor since 1979 and has more than 30 years of work experience. He was the Chairman of the Northern India Regional Council, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Amritsar Chapter for the year 1998-99 and was a member of the Income Tax Advisory Committee, Amritsar Chapter during the years 2002-03 and 2003-04. Mr. Bahl joined our Board on May 22, 2009.

Dr. P. S. Joshi, an eminent Cardiologist, holds an M.B.B.S. degree from Medical College, Amritsar and M.D. degreein Cardiology & General Medicine from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi. Dr. Joshi was awarded membership of Royal College of Physicians, UK in 1978. He is a Fellow American College of Cardiology, Fellow Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and Fellow Cardiological Society of India. He has over 40 years of experience in medical profession in India and abroad. During his career in Clinical Medicine and Cardiology, he has held many positions of responsibility including Directorship and Head, Department of Medicine & Cardiology Divisions of Escorts Medical Centre (1981-84), Birla Centre for Medical Research, New Delhi (1984-85) and MaharajSawan Singh Charitable Hospital, Beas (1985 – till date).. Dr. Joshi joined our Board on May 22, 2009.

Dr. Amit Varma completed his MBBS and MD from University of Delhi, his residency from the State University of New York, fellowships in critical care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and sub specialized in cardiac critical care at the Cleveland Clinic and also attended courses for an Executive MBA at the University of Chicago. After almost a decade in USA, Dr. Varma began his professional journey in India at the Manipal Heart Foundation in Bangalore. He subsequently moved on to the Narayan Hrudayalaya Hospital as the consultant- in-charge of Critical Care. Early in 2003, Dr. Varma joined Fortis Healthcare, where he has and continues to perform multiple administrative and clinical roles. He currently runs the integrated critical care services for Fortis Healthcare ICU network, which today comprises of a strong three-hundred beds and helps in formulation of Medical Strategy. From 2009, Dr. Varma is actively engaged in all healthcare initiatives of Religare Enterprises Limited, playing an advisory and steering role, overlooking and further initiating all healthcare related businesses, providing medical expertise, insight and credibility in all healthcare related verticals such as Health Insurance venture, Healthcare IT, Super Religare Labs and Religare Wellness. He also sits on the Board and Investment committee of the 125$ million Milestone Religare Private Equity fund which is investing domestically in the healthcare and education fields. Apart from his medical and management background, Dr. Varma continues to be a visiting faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and the Cleveland Clinic. Having functioned as healthcare consultant to the World Bank and the European Commission with special interest in quality, he is currently on the editorial board and a member of various healthcare and management groups and societies. Dr. Varma also acts as the Medical Editor for CNN-IBN. Dr. Amit Varma currently operates as President Health Care, Religare Enterprises Limited and Director, Critical Care Medicine, Fortis Escorts group of hospitals, India. Dr. Varma joined our Board on October 11, 2010.

Mr. Vikram Sahgal has completed hisMechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) and Masters in Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi. He has over 30 years of diverse experience in the mechanical engineering industry. He is the Chairman & Managing Director of Micron Instruments Pvt. Ltd., a company engaged in the manufacture of high precision engineering products for defence, aerospace and healthcare. Micron Instruments which has been spear headed by Mr. Vikram Sahgal is one of the pioneer private sector company manufacturing strategic precision products for the Indian Ministry of Defence. Currently, Micron Instruments is also a preferred supplier to several large defence and aerospace companies worldwide. As a member of the National Committee on Defence of CII for over 10 years he has been instrumental in influencing various policies to promote the role of the private corporate sector in India in the defence arena which historically was the domain of the Indian public sector and foreign multinational companies. He is on the board of directors of several companies and has been the member of the Managing Committee of PHDCCI, Chairman of Chandigarh Committee, and member of Administrator’s Advisory Council, Chandigarh. Mr. Sahgal joined our Board on October 11, 2010.

Mr. R.K. Shetty holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Karnataka University, Dharwad and has completed an executive development program from the Jamunalal Bajaj Institute of Management in Product Management Control in Mumbai. Mr. Shetty has received the National Productivity Award in the year 1992 and is presently the President of Indian Hockey Federation, and Karnataka State Hockey Association. Mr. Shetty has more than 31 years of work experience. Mr. Shetty joined our Board on October 11, 2010.

Captain G.P.S. Bhalla is a qualified master mariner certified by the Ministry of Transport, GOI, New Delhi. Mr. Bhalla has more than 59 years of work experience. Mr. Bhalla joined our Board on October 11, 2010.