Bangalore: Practo, the world’s leading healthcare platform on May 1st announced the appointment of Mr Manish Dugar as its Global Chief Financial Officer (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.
Mr Manish Dugar in his comment mentioned, “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.”
“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,”said Shashank ND, Founder & CEO, 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).