Max India Limited announced the appointment of Dr. Ajit Singh and Rohit Kapoor as Independent Director on the Board of the company, with effect from May 25, 2022.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “we wish to inform that the Board of Directors of the Company in its meeting held today i.e. May 25, 2022 has considered and approved the appointment of Dr. Ajit Singh and Mr. Rohit Kapoor as Independent Directors on the Board of the Company for a period of 5 years effective from May 25, 2022.”
Ajit Singh is the Managing Director and Partner at Artiman Ventures, focused on early-stage technology and life science investments, with $1.2 Billion assets under management. He is on the board of directors of Artiman portfolio companies CORE Diagnostics (focused on molecular diagnostics in Cardiology, Oncology, Reproductive and Endocrine testing) and Visby Medical (focused on Infectious disease diagnostics). Additionally, he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sofie Biosciences, a molecular imaging startup spun out of UCLA, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Summer Bio – the largest Covid Testing lab in the US, and as Director on the Board of Directors of Cadila Pharmaceuticals and Leo Cancer Care. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of American Association for cancer Research (AACR) foundation, the oldest and the largest cancer research organization globally. In the past, he has served as a Senior Advisor to the Board of Trustees of Tata Trusts, and as a Lead Director on the Board of Directors of Max Healthcare.
Prior to joining Artiman, he was the President and CEO of Biolmagene, a digital pathology company specializing in Cancer Diagnostics, based in Sunnyvale, CA. Biolmagene was acquired by Roche in September 2010. Before Biolmagene, Ajit spent nearly twenty years at Siemens in various roles, most recently as the global Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Imaging Systems business of Siemens Healthcare, based in Germany. From 2001-2006, he was the President and CEO of the Siemens Oncology Care Systems, with global headquarters in Concord, California. Between 1996- 2001, he held the positions of Group Vice President of Siemens e-Health, and Vice President of Siemens Health Services based in Princeton, NJ, where he led the company’s Healthcare IT business and Consulting Practice. Before transitioning to these business responsibilities, he spent several years in R&D and academia. From 1989-1995, he was at Siemens corporate Research in Princeton, responsible for research in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, and image analysis. During this time, he concurrently served on the faculty at Princeton University.
He is a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, a master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University, India. He has published two books and numerous refereed articles and holds five patents. His annual Top-10 Book Review is carried by various blogs and reading journals in December every year.
Rohit Kapoor a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience. He joined OYO as CEO of the real-estate business and is currently the Global Chief Marketing Officer for OYO. Rohit has worked in various leadership positions across sales and finance in several companies in past such as Max Group and Mckinsey & Company. He was one of the Executive Board Members at Max Healthcare for close to 5 years.
He served as the head of strategy for the Religare group and was involved in shaping the company’s presence across sectors. In the past, Rohit has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company for close to a decade. During his tenure with McKinsey, he gained extensive exposure to multiple international markets. He is extremely passionate about quality education, and access to opportunities being given to all. For this reason, he has been appointed as visiting faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Harappa Education, IMT Ghaziabad, and Vedica Scholars- a programme for women to broaden their horizons. He also dons the hat of an investor across the domains of prop-tech, health tech and fintech to name a few as he believes that entrepreneurial ambitions must be nourished, and is actively entrenched in the startup ecosystem of India. He continues to mentor and invest in startups such as OFBusiness, Fitternity, Mosaic Brands, Tjori, Oye Rickshaw, Meddo, to name a few.
He holds a PGD from Indian School of Business where he was ranked among the top five students in his batch and was the recipient of the Young Leader Award, for best all-around performance in the class and he has recently been featured as one of ISB’s most influential alumni in the book “ISB Portraits.” He is also a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Institute, USA).
Max India Limited, a part of the leading Indian conglomerate Max Group, has a presence in the senior care industry. It is the holding company of Antara Senior Living and Max Skill First.
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