RAGHURAM JANAPAREDDY, Partner & Managing Director – India, Tenthpin

Raghuram Janapareddy has over 35 years of experience in Lifesciences, Healthcare and Manufacturing industry, working in the Pharma, Aeronautics, Steel, Automotive, Retail, CPG, Oil & Gas, & Information Technology space. 

At Tenthpin, he leads the global Center of Excellence of Innovation for life sciences from India responsible for the country operations as well as co-innovation programs with Customers and SAP.

Prior to joining Tenthpin, he was working as a Director atNASSCOM Center of Excellence of IoT/AI in India, where he was leading the Lifesciences and Healthcare Vertical. At NASSCOM he created one of the largest healthcare eco-system in India under the brand name LHIF (Lifesciences & Healthcare Innovation Forum) to drive digital adoption by the industry. Besides other responsibilities, his main focus was accelerating the Digital Health Innovation and Adoption, working on public healthcare programs with societal impact, nurturing thought leadership & policy advocacy and engaging the industry in strategic partnerships.

He is one of the few healthcare leaders in the world to be enrolled onto the Roster of Experts in WHO Digital Health Technical Advisory Group (DHTAG).  Recently he has been recognized by Medgate Today International magazine as one of The Top Strategists of Healthcare to follow in 2021.

Earlier, Raghu worked for nearly 17 years at SAP in India and Germany locations. At SAP he led multiple SAP Implementations in India including the first SAP SCM implementation. He was the Program Manager in setting up Supply Chain CoE at Walldorf, US and Singapore. His cross-domainexperienceincludes:Innovation & Digital Transformation, Project/Program Management, Operations Management, Global Delivery Management, Offshore Service Delivery Management, Strategic/Tactical Vendor Management, Competency/Practice/CoE Management, Supply Chain Management, Solution/Product Management, Process Management, etc.

Raghuram is a frequent contributor of articles and blogs on social media. He organized multiple thought leadership summits and events, participating as a panel moderator, speaker and master of ceremonies.