"They believed in one thing:
Get the right data to the right people
in the right place at the right time.
And all that took was a new way of seeing.
And a new way of moving...."
 
 
Leadership Team
   

Anand P Surana
Chief Executive Officer

Anand P Surana is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ICEGEIN. Anand brings a rare combination of attributes to ICEGEIN: technical know-how, Innovative Business Models and far-reaching vision.

As CEO, Anand has direct responsibility for all corporate operational activities at ICEGEIN and also oversees the Company's vertical market divisions: Revenue Cycle Management,wireless, RFID, Enterprise Solutions and BPO-ePublishing & Collections for hospitals. Mr.Anand has been instrumental in leading the Company's efforts to grow both organically and through strategic acquisition to achieve the vision of becoming the premier provider of Medical Billing and collections, ERP/CRM, ePublishing, Wireless and RFID Solutions & services. 

Mr.Anand served in a variety of private and public accounting positions. He holds a Masters of Business Administration and Finance from the Cardiff Business School, University of Wales. U.K

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Padmanabhan Babu (PADDY)
Vice President - Operations

Paddy has a rich experience of nineteen years, over eleven years exclusively into Healthcare BPO sector. He has a strong background in operations combined with commercials only one of its kinds that blends him to be a strong techno commercial person in this industry.

Highly experienced in sectors like Revenue Cycle Management, - Medical Billing, Claims Processing, Coding, Insurance, Collections and Call center. He has handled operations for large & small direct Hospital & physician groups.

His professional experience brings in a strong domain training for the trainers, he has trained more than 500+ members all over India, he also brings in expertise in ramping up large scale projects and managing large teams in the offshore services, he is strong in project transitioning using reputed project transition methodologies, also been instrumental in process automation. He also has a good understanding on the Quality principles and tools like ISO & Six Sigma.

Prior to ICEGEIN, Paddy has served many healthcare companies where he has started from the launch and has grown big teams. He has also been a consultant for few groups who sought to get into Healthcare BPO vertical.

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A.R. Nallathambi(Nalla)
Director- Technical and Head operations BPO

Nalla is a Gold Medalist from Anna University specialising in B.E (Printing Technology). Nalla has 16 years of rich experience in Printing and Publishing industry globally.

To his credit are the 6 years of work experience as Operations Manager (Prepress and Press) for Leading Publisher in India and abroad. He also has 5 years of work experience as Quality and Prepress Manager at a Leading Printing House in Singapore and has managed and implemented ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards.

Nalla is instrumental in designing the conversion tools for the group, which in turn are boon to ePublishing industry.

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Rachel Samuel Varghese,
Chief Technology Officer

Rachel , Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for leading ICEGEIN's Technology direction and Strategy. Rachel Holds 18 years of experience in the IT industry, Prior to ICEGEIN, Rachel served as Project Manager for WIPRO Infotech, Pentanet Systems; Actively involved in implementation and system consultancy to various customers across the Globe; in the Vertical sectors Like Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Manufacturing; Retail/FMCG; Plantations / Agri business & Hospitality.

Rachel Presently is instrumental in handling the Main Operational Activities and works extensively on BP study and IT consultancy to clients; decision on Networking, configuration management, solution suggestion etc. She also assists client on the Enterprise Application configuration; Score cards and BI wizard Design based on client requirements; Pre-sale demonstration and bidding; Negotiation and closure; post sale support; Quality assurance and testing ; process implementation ; Business building ; Finance valuation.

Rachel holds Masters in Computer Applications from M S University of Baroda & a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDIM) from IGNOU , INDIA.

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Prof. Venkatasubramanian
Senior Advisor

Prof. Venkat Venkatasubramanian is a University Faculty Scholar and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, USA. At Purdue, Venkat directs the research efforts of several graduate students and co-workers in the Laboratory for Intelligent Process Systems.

Prof. Venkatasubramanian's research contributions have been in the areas of process fault diagnosis and supervisory control, hazard and safety analysis, pharmaceutical manufacturing and informatics, product formulation and design, systems biology, and complex adaptive systems using knowledge-based systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, mathematical programming and statistical approaches. His teaching interests include courses in systems biology, artificial intelligence, process design, process control, statistical thermodynamics, and applied statistics.

Based on Prof. Venkatasubramanian's research contributions, Industry week magazine selected him as "one of the fifty R&D stars in the United States whose achievements are shaping the future of industrial culture and America's technology policy".

Prof. Venkatasubramanian has published over 145 refereed papers, and delivered over 110 invited lectures and seminars, including six keynote lectures, at various international conferences and institutions all over the world. Venkat has chaired or co-chaired over thirty international meetings, conferences and sessions in the areas of artificial intelligence applications in process engineering.

Prof. Venkatasubramanian's contributions have been recognized by several awards and honors.

  • 1990 recipient of the Eminent Overseas Lectureship Award from the Institution of Engineers in Australia.
     
  • Guest co-editor of the Special Issue of Computers and Chemical Engineering on Neural Networks in 1992.
     
  • 1993, he was awarded the United Nations Development Program Invited Lectureship at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
     
  • He received the Norris Shreve Award for Outstanding Teaching in Chemical Engineering in 1993, 2003 and 2005.
     
  • He is an academic trustee and President of the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation, a non-profit organization for the promotion of computers in chemical engineering education.
     
  • Served on the editorial board of the Process Safety Progress.
     
  • Currently serves on the Editorial Board of Computers and Chemical Engineering.

Prof. Venkatasubramanian has been a consultant to several major global corporations and institutions such as Air Products, ALCOA, American Cynamid, Arthur D. Little, Amoco, Caterpillar, DowAgro Sciences, Eli Lilly, Exxon, Honeywell, Lubrizol, United Nations (UNIDO and UNDP), Indian Oil, ICI (U.K.), Nova Chemicals, G.D. Searle (Pfizer) and others.

He received his Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1984, M.S. in Physics from Vanderbilt University in 1979, and B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras, India, in 1977. Venkat worked as a Research Associate in Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and taught at Columbia University before joining Purdue in 1988.

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