Meena Ganesh

As the Chairperson and Co-founder, Meena Ganesh heads Portea Medical (www.portea.com), India's largest and fastest growing home healthcare company, which she co-founded in July 2013. The company has 4000+ employees and operations across 20+ cities in India, and brings the full range of geriatric, chronic, and post-operative care, as well as allied healthcare services, to patients' homes.

Until February 2013, she was a promoter and a board member of TutorVista and CEO and MD of Pearson Education Services, acquired by Pearson, the world's top education services company, for $213 MM in what was one of the largest deals in the Indian education sector.

As a partner of the platform, Growthstory.in, she is also the Co-Promoter of nearly a dozen new-age internet/technology enabled start-ups. Some of the ventures that have emerged as category leaders include BigBasket, India's premier e-grocery retailer; HomeLane, a leading home interiors company; FreshMenu, a food technology company; and BlueStone, one of India's leading online jewellery retailers.

Earlier, she set up the Tesco Hindustan Service Center, Tesco's outsourced IT services and analytics operation in India, and served as the CEO.

Before joining Tesco, she co-founded one of India's pioneering BPO companies - Customer Asset, which she sold to ICICI OneSource. She also had a five-year stint with Microsoft India, during which she set up multiple business units including Microsoft Consulting, Internet and Application Development/Business Services units.

During the initial 11 years of her career, she was with PricewaterhouseCoopers and with NIIT.

She is a Director on the Boards of Pidilite Industries Limited, Portea Medical Private Limited, Healthvista India Private Limited, Ezeesmart Education Private Limited, Takecare Technology Private Limited, Rocket Logistics Private Limited, Pfizer Limited, CRM Holdings Private Limited, Orkla India Limited, Qtrove Services Private Limited and Hitachi Energy India Limited.

Meena Ganesh is a PGDM holder from IIM Calcutta and has a Graduate Degree in Physics from the Madras University. In 2011, she was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus award by IM Calcutta.