Ramanath Padmanabhan
B 302,Rohan Jharoka
Kempapura Village, Yamalur, Marthahalli, Bangalore 560037
Cell: (+91) 9916039423 Home: (+91) 80-25953035
ramanath@gmail.com
MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Over 17 years of experience with proven record of successes in managing new product introduction in the
areas of healthcare, entertainment, energy and mobility verticals. My roles spanned engineering
management, product management, new business development, product strategy and planning, eco
system engagement and defining product roadmaps especially for cost sensitive emerging markets. Have
deep networks in Indian ecosystem with ability to set up world class collaborations. Advanced knowledge
of business-legal issues with negotiation skills to forge collaborative agreements. Good understanding of
quality, legal and regulatory framework as applied to healthcare industry.
EXPERTISE AND SPECIALIZATION
 Product, Program and R&D Management
 Strategy, Planning and technology road
mapping
 Overseas Delivery Management
 International Project Management
 New Product Introduction
 Business Planning
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
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Education and Achievements
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Executive General Management Program – IIM Bangalore -2011
M.Tech.– Major: Bio Medical Engineering – IIT Bombay 1994
B.Tech. Electronics Engineering – Major: Instrumentation- College of Engineering, Trivandrum- 1992
CAREER & PROFESSIONAL HIGHTLIGHTS
 Strategist(Business Manager) – Strategic Technology Management
Intel Technologies Private Limited
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2007-Present
Key Responsibilities
 Driving the strategy for emerging market research including healthcare & energy.
 Identify new opportunities that would help Intel to differentiate by being the voice of the customer
 Develop use cases, business models, market sizing, price points, competitive intelligence, technology
differentiation to drive internal product roadmaps
 Negotiating with internal and external customers. Driving business relationships create business plans
and define new business models in partnership with key external customers (device manufacturers,
service providers and technology vendors). Managing external relationships with interaction typically
at VP/CXO level.
 Establish and maintain close contacts and collaboration with academic research community. Build a
network of high profile customers by developing advanced applications with them and create or sustain
reference sites.
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Key Selected Outcomes
 Played key role in defining new business and business models for emerging market healthcare
products. Created go to market strategy for innovative health service product. Negotiated revenue
share & licensing agreement with key external stakeholders like medical OEM and hospitals. Sold
business plan with key CXO level stakeholders.
 Drove several innovative technologies to product intercept including mobile chronic disease
management, computational ophthalmology platform, health kiosks, patient monitoring system and
pregnancy triage system through influencing internal and external stakeholders. Drove
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business/technology strategy and eco system engagements for mobile chronic disease management for
Intel India Labs.
 Set up health team to path of success by setting up and managing several clinical collaborations with
leading hospitals, non-profits, universities and device manufacturers OEMs.
 Program managed clinical research projects with external collaborators
 Lead global health research teams in Oregon, Washington, Pittsburg and India teams to develop
technology/research investment strategies through business & technology analysis and eco system
engagements
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Vice President – Product Development
HD Medical Services India
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June 2006-June 2007
Key Responsibilities
 Oversee new product introduction of cardiac device for emerging market
 Oversaw several functions including engineering management, quality, contract manufacturing market
research and clinical research
 Managed a team of over 30 people. Recruitment, coaching and mentoring of
 Defining product roadmap working with clinicians in leading hospital
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Key Selected Outcomes
 Set up key processes to achieve ISO 9000 certification for key processes in the short span of 6 months
 Oversaw successful clinical trials to validate medical device and key intelligent algorithms
 Oversaw successful launch of low cost cardiac triage device in Indian market
 Complete engineering responsibility for driving the delivery of the product working with multiple
outsourced vendors and managing the in house program management team.
Senior Consultant ( Senior Manager) – Technology Roadmap
IDA-Singapore.
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June 2005-June 2006
Key Responsibilities
 Defining a business and technology blueprint for Singapore’s wireless sensor technology working
closely with leading ecosystem partners including key industry verticals, government users, technology
suppliers and research labs
 Demonstrate key value proposition for wireless sensors by demonstrating use cases, business value and
technology feasibility through partnership with ecosystem partners. Drive technology standards where
it makes sense
 Drive ecosystem adoption of wireless sensor technology
 Create excitement in the ecosystem by organizing events, talks with leading experts in the field.
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Key Selected Outcomes
 Conceived and delivered Wireless Sensor technology roadmap as part of national 10 year road mapping
effort iN2015. Identified sensor ecosystem and key opportunities and impediments for the growth of
sensor eco system in Singapore. Managed interaction with industry, government agencies and industry
partners to generate the roadmap.
 Engaged luminaries and organized talks, shows to gather feedback from industry and government
bodies. An interactive session with Jaron Lanier - a well known expert in tele-immersion was one of
them.
 Envisaged and architected an open standard based, large scale sensor grid platform to remove
technology impediments to support large scale government sensor deployments in Singapore. Project
managed the delivery of Sensor grid development using public tendering process.
Director- Technology & Research
BNT Asia
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June 2003 to March 2005
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Key Responsibilities
 Lead a team of engineers and several external outsourced vendor resources to deliver new products in
the area of health & fitness, wireless telematics, automotive and entrainment
 Recruited and mentored a high performance team for this new business division based in Singapore
 Worked with multiple internal business groups to define software and service based roadmaps.
Worked with technical team to develop a suite of intellectual property
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Key Selected Outcomes
 Provide thought leadership to the innovation centre through product roadmaps, conceptualizing
innovative applications and development of patent portfolio.
 Provided leadership overseas to delivery team to deliver a wireless fitness management system that
dramatically improves the quality of experience for end users, trainers, club owners, maintenance
personnel. This project stretched over 2 years and had an estimated budget over $3M. Lead a 20+ team
of in house as well as out sourced vendors. This product was deployed in high end fitness centers in UK
and USA.
 Managed projects in wireless remote automotive diagnostics, bowling and navigation space. Recruited
and mentored technical resources.
 Originally recruited as a technical lead was immediately promoted to technology manager and then as a
director. Was inducted into Brunswick Performance Plan where bonus is linked to the profitability.
Senior Research Officer/Business Champion/
I2R/LIT /KRDL (Company changed its name thrice )
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Nov 1997 to June 2003
Key Responsibilities
 Lead a team of 7 research engineers to drive an internal startup venture group on mobile middleware
 Forging collaboration with lead users, being voice of customer
 Develop business plan and fund rising from angels, venture capitalist and corporate investors
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Key Selected Outcomes.
 Proposed a business idea to the incubation unit and founded a business unit which developed mobile
middleware in man to machine, machine to machine space. The overall internal budget was over
$1M.Lead pilot projects of this middleware over several verticals including interactive advertisements,
metering, energy management, automotive, fitness, vending machines and wet labs. This was identified
as one of the promising technologies and was showcased by IDA, Singapore in HP E-bazzar and 3GSM
conference at Cannes under IDA banner.
 Conceptualized “Smart Wet Labs” and raised external funding to the tune of $250K to use wireless
pervasive computing technologies within wet labs to improve the quality and accuracy of research data
collected within wet labs for FDA submissions
 Raised project based funding/grants to the tune of $250K to produce proof of concepts. Lead the
creation of business plan and interaction with early stage investors.
 Lead a 7 member research team to produce technology and suite of patents (7 pending patents).
Provided technology and architectural vision to the middleware.
Software Engineer
I2R/LIT /KRDL
 Part of the team that developed an automated video editing tool that could cut video to music to create
engaging home videos and advertisements help non experts to produce well edited video. Co-invented
a patent which has been granted by European patent office.
 Part of the team that developed a 3D tool for visualization of brain images for education and surgery
planning.
Senior Design Engineer/Design Engineer
Wipro GE Medical System
June 1996 to Nov 1997
 Design and development of software modules for GE MRI scanner.
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Technology Mentor / Software Engineer
Aditi Inc/ NetQuest(India) Pvt Ltd
June 1995 to June 1996
 Mentored a team of engineers to deliver support to Microsoft Win NT support remotely.
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