J. Ramachandran

Biography

  J. Ramachandran is Executive Vice President - Management Systems & Corporate Initiatives at Dr. Reddy’s. He has over twenty-five years of leadership experience in founding and scaling technology products & services businesses across 5 continents. In his current role, Ram sharpens the company’s relentless focus on stakeholder value with breakthrough corporate initiatives, as well as appropriate strategy and management systems. Ram joined Dr. Reddy’s in September 2016.Earlier, Ram was with IBM Global Services (USA), where he was involved in the development of several Fortune 500 customer engagements and internationally distributed teams in diverse verticals such as Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, and Utility. One such engagement received special mention in the Wall Street Journal. Ram also won a rare award as the “Best People Manager” at IBM. Previously he was CEO of Cura, an enterprise risk management company, where he achieved 30% growth and also regained the company’s inclusion into Gartner’s Visionary Quadrant. Prior to this he was Global CEO of Birla soft, where he moved the company, in less than a year, from 72nd place to 46th place in Dataquest’s Top 100 list. Ram is also the founder and former CEO of Gramener – a data visualization and analytics company, which works with multinational customers from the Pharmaceuticals, Media, Banking and Telecom verticals. Gramener has won awards & recognition for innovation from organisations like NASSCOM, IDG and Deloitte. Ram is a regular speaker at various international technological and business forums, such as ioT Asia Singapore, and writes for online publications like Sand Hill Group of California. Ram holds a Master’s Degree in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Research Interest

 Pharmaceutical Products