Raju Venkatraman, a successful Serial Entrepreneur is the Founder, ex-Chairman and ex-Managing Director of Medall Health Care Pvt. Ltd. Headquartered in Chennai, under his leadership, Medall got visibility and presence in 8 States Pan India and grew to become the 4th largest Diagnostics Services company in less than 7 years touching more than 12 million lives by 2018. This was possible by implementing his vision to provide accessible and affordable healthcare in tier 2 and tier 3 cities especially in the interiors of Tamil Nadu.

Passionate about transforming rural India, creating global leaders and scaling businesses, Raju is currently incubating 8 companies in various technologies including Digital Marketing, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Metaverse, E Commerce, mentoring Women owned businesses and an advisor to Buddhi Clinic – a holistic cure to Brain and Mind disorders.

Raju has held board positions at Polaris Consulting & Services Limited and American International School Chennai (AISC). He is currently in the board of Prodapt Solutions Private Limited, Anunta Technology Services Private Limited, a trustee of IIT Madras Alumnus Fund and Research Park, member of IIT Madras Incubation Center, Board Member of Ganapathy Iyers Girls High School, Past Chair of Madras Management Association (MMA), involved in leadership positions in TIE and CII Chennai, and sits in the Boston University India Advisory Council, thus effectively distributing his time to fulfil his passion and purpose. Raju has been a member of YPO Detroit from 1997 and later became a member of YPO Chennai when he moved back to India in 2002 thus enjoying the benefits of being part of the YPO community for more than 2 decades.

Before Medall, Raju founded Sherpa Business Solutions in USA in 2002, then relocated to India and acquired RevIT in India to provide IT/ITeS services to the healthcare industry. RevIT was later acquired by ICICI One Source Solutions (promoted by ICICI Bank, India) later renamed as FirstSource Solutions. Raju served as President, COO and Joint Managing Director at FirstSource and grew the company from 40 million dollars to 400 million dollars in 4 years and took the company public.

After graduating from IIT Madras in 1981, Raju’s first job was with Cadbury India Pvt. Ltd. Relocating to US, Raju worked at EDS, USA between 1985-1991, then joined HiTech Consultants, bought it subsequently and renamed it as Vetri Systems and by establishing the Indian subsidiary of Vetri Systems, Raju is known to become one of the pioneers of Digital Imaging and BPO in India. He sold Vetri Systems to Lason Inc, scaled Lason with acquisitions in Trinidad, Grenada, Barbados, and he was also responsible for Operations in China, India, Mauritius, Mexico, and USA.

Raju is married to Raji Raju who is the Chairperson of FICCI Ladies Organisation Chennai Chapter and serves on the YPO Regional Board. His daughter Roshni Raju who is an entrepreneur in a niche area creating medical content videos to demystify medicine and is married to Prashanth Palepu of Palepu Group with businesses in Pharma distribution, manufacturing surgical mask and accessories. Raju’s younger son Roshan Raju, the founder of Imersive.io, is also an entrepreneur in a niche area of AR/VR E-Commerce. Raju is currently enjoying spending his time judiciously while enjoying his grandson and giving time for his passions as well. His passions and hobbies also include playing and promoting basketball while supporting social causes, mentoring entrepreneurs, developing talent in not so privileged children, travelling to exotic places around the world, and appreciating Indian classical and old evergreen Bollywood music