Sam Santhosh

Biography

Mr. Sam Santhosh is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in initiating and running successful businesses. Sam founded SciGenom Labs in 2009 with the vision of leveraging the Next Generation Sequencing technologies in the field of Genomics in India. Sam is an investor and mentor for many companies and is currently a board member at Impelsys Inc, New York; ePay Healthcare, San Francisco; MedGenome Labs, Bangalore; Emerge Ventures, Singapore and The Centre for Commercialization of Antibodies (CCAB) Toronto, Canada Prior to this Sam was the CEO and Managing Director of California Software Limited (Calsoft) from 1992 - Feb 2012. He founded Calsoft in 1992 and under Sam's vision Calsoft rapidly grew from a niche player in the Silicon Valley to a global player with over 1200 employees and presence in 8 countries. Sam took Calsoft public and listed the company in the Indian Stock Exchanges. From 2004 to 2009, Sam focused on inorganic growth through eight acquisitions including companies in U.S, UK, Japan and India. Post 2009, Sam oversaw the sale of the Calsoft group companies to different buyers across the world. He has been constantly retooling himself and has attended various training programs in different U.S universities including MIT. In 2010, he completed the Executive Education program at the Singularity University in Sunnyvale, California. Sam has an engineering degree and an MBA (majoring in Management Information Systems) from India's premier institute, IIM Calcutta. Sam is based in Pleasanton, CA but visits India regularly.

Research Interest

Business Management