Meena Ganesh

As the Co-founder and Chairperson, Meena leads Portea Medical (www.portea.com), India's largest home healthcare company, which she co-founded in July 2013.

Portea brings comprehensive in-home care to patients, covering geriatric, chronic, post-operative, palliative, cancer, and stroke care, along with allied healthcare services.

Portea has served over 10 lakh patients and raised $92.8 million in funding.

Meena's non-profit, Bahaar Foundation, is on a mission to create 100,000 micro-entrepreneurs in healthcare and agriculture in rural India. Its flagship Community Healthcare Entrepreneur programme trains and equips rural women as last-mile healthcare providers, currently active in Punjab, Chhattisgarh, and UP.

She also serves as an Independent Director on the boards of Axis Bank, Pfizer India, Hitachi Energy India, Orkla India, and Pidilite Industries. She has been a member of the Board of Governors of IIM Calcutta.

As co-founder and partner at GrowthStory.in, a leading venture builder platform that incubates and promotes new ventures and entrepreneurs, Meena has played an instrumental role in the growth of several leading companies.

This includes BigBasket.com - India's largest e-grocery company (majority-owned by the Tata Group), Portea Medical - India's largest and fastest-growing home healthcare company with over 4000 employees across 37 cities, Bluestone.com - a top online jewellery company (Filed DRHP), and HomeLane - India's leading end-to-end interior design and manufacturing provider. Currently the companies together employ over 25,000 personnel and are valued at over $4.5 Bn.

Till February 2013, Meena was a promoter and board member of TutorVista, and CEO and MD of Pearson Education Services, acquired by Pearson, the world's top education services company, for $213 million in one of the largest deals in the Indian education sector.

Earlier, she established the Tesco Hindustan Service Centre, Tesco's outsourced IT services and analytics operation in India, and served as its CEO while also sitting on Tesco's Global Retail Council.

Before Tesco, Meena co-founded Customer Asset, one of India's pioneering BPO companies, which she grew to nearly 4,000 people before selling it to ICICI OneSource.

She spent five years at Microsoft India, setting up multiple business units including Microsoft Consulting, Internet, and Application Development. The initial 11 years of her career were at PricewaterhouseCoopers and NIIT.

Meena holds a PGDM from IIM Calcutta (Class of 1985) and a graduate degree in Physics from Madras University. In 2011, she was conferred the 'Distinguished Alumnus' award by IIM Calcutta.

During March 2020, she co-founded a social initiative to feed migrant and daily wage workers, serving 65 lakh meals over three months across five cities under the FeedMyBangalore and FeedMyCity banner. In 2021, during the second wave of the pandemic, she worked on providing free oxygen support to COVID patients and partnered with state governments to upgrade healthcare infrastructure.