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Pranav Anam, Founder & CEO, The Gene Box

Pranav Anam is a qualified geneticist from Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He has a rich exposure in Genetics and Bioinformatics spectrum including Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology, Biomolecules, Pharmacology and Cytogenetics. Having said that, his strategy and business acumen makes him a visionary who is able to make sense of the chaos. His greatest strength is his ability and agility in setting up and steering large global teams across diverse businesses.

He has successfully developed a unique pan-India commercial and collaborative platform to help stem cell scientists, academicians, and medical practitioners create best-in-class therapeutic products and services.

At The Gene Box: Founder/ CEO

Pranav plays a critical role of a catalyst and business accelerator. On the one hand, he spearheads the firm’s business development and strategic alliances, on the other; he actively coordinates with the product development and engineering teams towards continually enhancing TGB’s unique value proposition and expanding its wide range of offerings.

The inception of The Gene Box was serendipitous. Pranav Anam, A young, enterprising graduate in genetics, returned from Newcastle, UK in 2015. He was on the prowl for his next big adventure in life. His love for genomic science ran deep and that paved the way for what was to come. Aware of the influence of genetics on fitness and nutrition, he wanted to build a platform where he could channelizehis knowledge for the betterment of quality of life.

Pranav spent months speaking to the predictive wellness space in India. He soon realized that there was an unmet gap in genomics infrastructure in the country. A geneticist at heart, Pranav took matters to hand and decided to start The Gene Box on the principles of science. For
Pranav, science came first, selling later.

Pranav spent three years mastering the nitty-gritty of predictive testing. He built a razor-sharp algorithm that would make sense of the gigabytes of genomic data that would be generated in the years to come. Pranav invested time and effort, blood and toil to scaffold cutting edge technology platforms. Knowledge and Technology have been the cornerstones of The Gene Box since the very beginning. A person with infectious energy, passion and indepth knowledge about Genetics and Stem cell research makes Pranav a people’s person at The Gene Box which in turn helps him to effectively lead the teams across product development, engineering to business development and strategic alliances. Today, The Gene Box is a leading genetic testing
platform that focuses on science and analytics to promote healthcare solutions. TGB’s commitment to spearhead quality-driven genomic research is evident that is what makes us preferred globally.

Pranav Arora, MD and Lead Applied Intelligence, Accenture in India

Pranav Chawda, CEO, JP Morgan Chase Bank

Pranav Chawda is the CEO of JP Morgan Chase Bank, India and Head – Global Corporate Banking.

The Bank has been in India since 1945. As a full service Bank, the India franchise caters to the needs of some of the largest Indian and MNC Corporates along with key Financial Institutions and Foreign Institutional Investors. The addition of Commercial Banking in recent years, completes the client segment offering of the bank.

Pranav Chawda heads Global Corporate Banking in India, based in Mumbai. As part of his overall responsibility, he was in-charge of launch of Commercial banking and build the business of Indian headquartered mid-market corporates basis his extensive experience in this segment. Pranav is also a member of the India Management Committee, the ALCO and the India Credit Committee for JP Morgan Chase NA, India branch.

Pranav joined the firm in November 2019. He has spent over 23 years in banking industry and has held senior leadership roles with another global bank heading various business segments i.e. SME, Liability and Mid-market. His last employment was with a Regional foreign bank in India, as Commercial Bank head.

Pranav is a Chartered Accountant and has worked with Deloitte, Price Waterhouse, Citigroup and DBS.

Pranav Mistry, Founder & CEO, Two Platforms Inc

Pranav Mistry is the CEO and Founder of TWO. He is a renowned scientist and inventor, and his contributions to the fields of AI, AR/VR, Machine Learning, and Robotics put Pranav in the elite list of pioneers and inventors that shape the future of our technological world.

Pranjal Kamra, CEO, Finology Ventures

Prasad Balakrishnan, COO, MiPhi

Prasad Balakrishnan, Chief Operating Officer of MiPhi is a visionary product engineering leader with almost three decades success in business development, setting up & managing Technology COEs, growing business footprint and delivering world-class software solutions for Storage, Telecom, Networking Products, Solutions & Applications, Ecosystem Solutions and Data Security Solutions domains for clients across the USA, Europe, APAC & India. Prior to taking over the current role in MiPhi, Prasad was the Vice President of HFCL, Head of R&D for Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Cray Division, Head of Cray Super computers India R&D and APAC Head for X-IO, a Seagate company, prior to his roles in Seagate and PictureTel in the USA.

Prasenjit Roy, Chief Marketing Officer, NTT Ltd. in India

Prasenjit has over two and half decades of corporate experience on the business front – spanning across multinationals in India and abroad. A curious learner – he is also the evangelist of Integrated Strategic Marketing spanning across a wide spectrum of industry sectors.

Besides being the Regional Council member in NASSCOM, he is also the Past Chair of their Sales & Marketing Council nationally. Equipped with multiple certified coaching credentials, he coaches / mentors NASSCOM’s 10,000 Start-ups program and the SME Forum across India.

He is a regular speaker at leading Business Schools and industry associations and regularly contributes to publications like IDG, ET, Express Computers and numerous other media publications.

Prasenjit has been the recipient of the prestigious Alumnus of the year award under the Corporate Leadership category - presented by the Vice Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Top 10 Business School in India) at a special ceremony and numerous CMO awards.

He has advanced degrees in Engineering and Business Management, and also did a Post Graduate certificate course in Modern Information Systems from IIT Mumbai.

Currently Prasenjit is the Chief Marketing Officer of NTT Ltd. in India.

Prashant Kumar, MD & CEO, Yes Bank

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