Meena Ganesh

Meena Ganesh

Co-Founder, MD & CEO, Portea Medical

As the MD & CEO, Meena heads Portea Medical (www.portea.com), India’s largest and fastest growing home healthcare company, which she co-founded in July 2013. The company, , has 4500+ employees and operaMons across 16 ciMes in India, and brings in-home to paMents, the full range of geriatric, chronic, post-operaMve care as well as allied healthcare services.
Till February 2013, Meena was a promoter and board member of TutorVista, and CEO and MD of Pearson EducaMon Services, acquired by Pearson, the world’s top educaMon services company, for $ 213 MM in what was one of the largest deals in the Indian educaMon sector.

As a partner of the plaVorm, Growthstory.in, she is also co-promoter of nearly a dozen, new-age Internet/ Technology enabled start-ups. A few of them that are leaders in their category include Bigbasket.com – India’s premier e-grocery retailer, home soluMons company – HomeLane, food tech company, FreshMenu and Bluestone.com – India’s leading online jeweler.

Earlier, Meena set up the Tesco Hindustan Service Center, Tesco’s outsourced IT services and analyMcs operaMon in India, and served as the CEO.

Before joining Tesco‚ Meena co-founded one of India’s pioneering BPO companies – Customer Asset, which she sold to ICICI OneSource. Meena also had a five year sMnt with Microsob India‚ during which she set up mulMple business units including Microsob ConsulMng‚ Internet and ApplicaMon Development/Business services units. During the iniMal 11 years of her career, Meena was with PricewaterhouseCoopers and with NIIT.

  • Meena is a PGDM holder from IIM Calcuda has a graduate degree in Physics from the Madras University.
  • In 2011, she was conferred the ‘DisMnguished Alumnus’ award by IIM Calcuda.
  • She won the ET Startup Award in the Women Ahead category in 2016 and was chosen as Health
  • Entrepreneur of the Year (2016) at the India Health Summit & Awards. Meena has been part of Fortune
  • India’s 50 ‘Most Powerful Women in Business’ for five consecuMve years (2015 – 2020). She was recently awarded the Kempegowda Award by BBMP for contribuMon to the city of Bengaluru.
  • Meena serves on the board of Pfizer India, P&G Limited, Manipal Cigna and Axis Bank. She has been part of the Board of Governors of the Indian InsMtute of Management-Calcuda.