Meena Ganesh

Meena Ganesh
Citizenship India
Alma mater IIM Calcutta
Occupation Businesswoman
Spouse(s) Krishnan Ganesh

Meena Ganesh is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. She is the chief executive officer of Portea Medical, a provider of home healthcare services in India.[1][2] Together with her husband Krishnan Ganesh, she has launched four entrepreneurial ventures.[3]

Ganesh has an undergraduate degree in Physics from Madras University and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. She started her career at NIIT, and went on to work at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Microsoft. In 2000, she co-founded Customer Asset, a call centre and BPO company, with funding from Softbank Capital and Newscorp. Customer Asset was acquired by ICICI Bank in 2002, and later re-branded as Firstsource.[4]

After leaving Customer Asset, Meena joined Tesco. As the CEO of its India operations, she set up Tesco's IT and back office hub in India. She stayed at Tesco for five years.[5]

Ganesh left Tesco to join Tutorvista, an online tutoring company founded by her husband, as a co-promoter. Pearson Education acquired a majority stake (around 76%) in TutorVista in 2009.

In July 2013, Meena and Krishnan Ganesh acquired Portea Medical, a healthcare firm based in New Delhi, after which Meena moved in as the CEO.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Management Team". Portea Medical. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Deepshikha Punj (March 1, 2012). "How I made it: Meena Ganesh". India Today. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Entrepreneurs Meena and K. Ganesh: Looking for the Next Disruptive Business Model". knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. April 18, 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  4. ↑ Poornima Kavlekar (20 Jan 2012). "The story of a serial entrepreneur". smartceo.in. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "'Companies must recognise different skills of women'". Business Line. March 7, 2005. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  6. ↑ Boby Kurian & Anshul Dhamija (Jul 29, 2013). "Entrepreneur duo buys medical company". Bangalore: The Times of India. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
  7. ↑ Charmi Gutka (29 July 2013). "K Ganesh And Meena Ganesh Buys Healthcare Firm - Portea Medical". www.dealcurry.com. Retrieved 14 August 2013.