Practo, a healthcare platform has announced the appointment of Manish Dugar as its Global CFO.
In this role, Manish will be responsible for the leadership of Practo’s financial legal & regulatory operations. He will be a member of the company’s leadership team and has taken charge from April 15th 2016.
“I am really pleased to have Manish join us. His deep domain experience and proven financial leadership in profitable, publicly traded firms as well as high growth technology companies will be critical as Practo continues to rapidly move towards realizing profitability by next year. He will also be instrumental in preparing the organizing to rapidly scale our various businesses across the diverse geographies that Practo is in.” - Shashank ND, Founder & CEO, Practo
“Practo has achieved immense growth in the last few years. The products have tremendous scale with millions of users and hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers on the platform. The solution and approach to solving the healthcare problem is unique globally. I am really thrilled to join the team to take this growth to the next level.” – Manish Dugar, CFO, Practo
Manish joins Practo from Inmobi, where he was the CFO. Prior to Inmobi he was the Group CFO at RPG enterprises and has also held a variety of senior roles over a ten year period with Wipro Technologies, a 20 billion-dollar global IT company, where he was most recently CFO for the company’s IT Business and the CEO for its BPO business globally. Manish holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).
About Practo: Practo is the world’s leading healthcare platform that connects millions of patients with hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers around the world and helps people make better healthcare decisions. The company provides a singular platform that helps consumers with all their healthcare requirements – from finding the healthcare provider to booking an appointment, online doctor consultation, getting their tests done and even ordering medicines. Practo also makes software products that help healthcare providers ranging from clinics to hospitals digitize and deliver more efficient and higher quality healthcare to millions of patients around the world every day. It continues to be dedicated to centering healthcare around the consumer and helping billions of people live healthier longer lives.