Management Profiles

Smt. Soundara Kumar, 69 years, holds a bachelor’s degree in science and is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (CAIIB), she joined the State Bank of India as a Direct Recruit Officer and had worked for 39 years as officer in State Bank of India from 1975 to 2014 with various responsibilities including managing Bank’s business while ensuring smooth merger with State Bank of India. She served as the Managing Director of State Bank of Indore from 2008 to 2010 and also served as Deputy Managing Director and Group Executive of Stressed Assets Management of State Bank of India. She headed Wholesale Banking Credit Committee at Corporate Centre, for over three years, evaluating high value commercial credit proposals including project finance for infrastructure. She also headed Credit Committees at State Bank of Indore, SBI Bangalore Circle served on the Boards of SIDBI Ventures, SBICI (State Bank of India Commercial and International Bank Ltd.) and CERSAI (Central Registry of Securitization Asset Reconstruction and Securities Interest). She was a permanent member of Corporate Centre Investment Committee and Credit Policies and Procedures Committee. She has been on the Board of Directors of the Company since March 27, 2015.

Shri Sankar Krishnan, 56 years, is a B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad. He is an ex-partner of McKinsey & Company, who led McKinsey’s healthcare practice, initially in India, and then in Greater China. During his 14 years at McKinsey, he focused on healthcare, serving a variety of multinational and local pharmaceutical companies, government and quasi-government bodies, hospital chains and health insurance companies across India, China, lsrael and West Asia and South East Asia. His primary areas of expertise include organizational and leadership development, sales and marketing and operations. He left McKinsey in July 2006, to set up as an independent consultant in the not-for-profit sector in Asia. He was also the Pro Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University, Sonepat. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Company since May 11, 2018.

Justice Shri P P S Janarthana Raja (Retd.), 73 years, is a graduate in Law from the Madras Law College, had been in active practice mainly on the Taxation matters for the past four decades from 1977. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of High Court of Madras during December, 2005 and had become a Permanent Judge of the High Court from April, 2007. After a term of seven (7) years as High Court Judge, he retired on 21st January 2013. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Company since August 29, 2018.

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Dr. M. S. Krishnan, 60 years, is the Accenture Chair Professor of Computer Information Systems and Professor of Technology and Operations at the Ross Business School, University of Michigan. He is currently the Faculty Director for Business+Tech initiative and CK Prahalad and India Initiatives at the school. He has also been the associate dean for global initiatives, executive programs and action-based learning at the Ross Business School. He has co-authored the book “The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Created Value with Global Networks” with Professor C. K. Prahalad (late). The Economist and BusinessWeek magazine named this book as one of the Best Books on Innovation in 2008. Dr. Krishnan received his degrees in Mathematics and Computer Applications from the University of Delhi, India and Ph.D. in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA in 1996. He was awarded the ICIS Best Dissertation Prize for his Doctoral Thesis on “Cost and Quality Considerations in Software Product Management”.

His research interest includes business model innovation, technology enabled personalization, ecosystem innovation, corporate IT strategy, business value of IT investments, improvements in business process and software quality, productivity and customer satisfaction. In January 2000, American Society for Quality (ASQ) selected him as one of the 21 voices of quality for the twenty first century. In 2004, he was selected as one of the top thinkers on Business Technology by Information week-Optimize magazines based on their reader surveys.

He is currently on the Board of Directors of The Ramco Cements Limited, a public listed Company.

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Dr. Aravind Srinivasan, 54 years, graduated in medicine from PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, Coimbatore, South India in 1992 and completed his residency in ophthalmology leading to Masters in Ophthalmology from Aravind Eye Institute and Postgraduate Institute of Ophthalmology, Madurai, South India in 1996.

Having worked in the medical field, he had a passion for management. In 2000, he did his MBA with specialization in strategy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. After MBA, he took over as the Administrator of Aravind Eye Care System and was instrumental in bringing changes to the various facets of the organization. Since 2011, he has been serving the organization in the role of Director-Projects of Aravind Eye Care System. He is on the Board of Govel Trust that runs the Aravind Eye Hospitals. From September 2017, he is leading the Aravind Eye Hospital Chennai as Chief Medical Officer.

On the clinical front, Dr. Aravind is a high-volume cataract surgeon.  On the non-clinical front, he is innovating, executing and working with all stakeholders in the respective branches to ensure harmony in work, mentoring staff to invent and implement innovations in areas of need to ensure better patient centred care.

He is involved in teaching eye health management courses. He is also a resource person for the Indian Institute of Management and Mentor for the MBA students at the Wharton School of Business and University of Michigan. Dr. Aravind’s area of specialization concentrates on the overall evaluation and interpretation of performance of each division and tracking progress so as to facilitate benchmarking both internally and externally to achieve patient-centred care across the system. Besides the administration of the hospitals and grooming managers, Dr. Aravind also evaluates new projects and ensures replication of the “Aravind Way”. He shares the Aravind Model of high volume, high quality, affordable cost eye care to developing nations through the various management courses offered by LAICO.

He is awarded with Qimpro Award in the category, Role Model Leader for World-Class Quality in the field of health care and Distinguished Alumnus Award for the year 2013 by the PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research. He has published several research papers in Peer Reviewed International and State Journals.

He is currently on the Board of Directors of Birla Cable Limited, a public listed Company. He is also on the Board of few private limited companies.

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