About
Sanjay is a promoter and Vice Chairman of GVK, a business conglomerate based in India, prevalent in several business sectors such as, energy, airports, hospitality, transportation, real estate, pharmaceuticals and technology. GVK has invested over USD 5 Billion during the last 20 years into various businesses. GVK (www.gvk.com) established India’s first private power plant in 1996, India’s first 6-lane toll road project in Rajasthan in 2004 and India’s first private airport project in Mumbai in 2006. GVK won numerous awards and recognition for its stellar work in all sectors and in particular the GVK Mumbai airport which has been winning the world’s best airport award for the last 4 years in a row. He founded two companies Aragen Lifesciences (www.aragen.com) which is into pharmaceutical services and Excelra Knowledge Solutions (www.excelra.com) which is a data and analytics company which are businesses of the future. In the not-for-profit space he is Vice Chairman of GVK EMRI (www.emri.in), which runs the world’s largest ambulance service in partnership with government, having 17,500 ambulances and 70,000 employees and offers services free of cost to over One Billion people in India. Since inception 19 years ago, GVK EMRI has saved more than 7.6 million lives. In recognition of his career accomplishments, Sanjay was declared Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, 2007, Business Achiever of the Year awarded by India Leadership Conclave 2009 and Emerging Business Leader of the Year by All India Management Association, 2011. Sanjay is proud to have been the commencement speaker at both his alma-mater, University of Michigan in 2015 and Purdue University in 2016. He has been recognised in 2021 as an Outstanding Industrial Engineering Alumnus by Purdue University. He has been conferred with the Doctor of Philosophy - Honoris Causa, an Honorary Doctorate Degree by Amity University in recognition of his outstanding contributions to business and society. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, an MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and SEP from Stanford University. He is an avid marathoner, golfer and art collector and loves adventure sports. He is married to Pinky and has two children and four grandchildren. He is an avid Marathoner, Ironman, Golfer & a passionate Art Collector.
Experience
Chairman & Co-Founder
At Jivi, we are leveraging generative AI to transform healthcare for billions of people globally. Our interdisciplinary team includes physicians, AI researchers, engineers, and designers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard and Yale.
Chairman
Invests in tech start-ups a well as incubates new businesses in India.
Vice Chairman
GVK Power & Infrastructure (www.gvk.com) Leads GVK's businesses in key areas of infrastructure such as Airports, Energy and Transportation that are vital for India to fulfill its tremendous potential and economic development.
Vice Chairman
GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute (www.emri.in) GVK EMRI, a not-for-profit organisation, which runs the world’s largest ambulance service free of cost to over 800 million people in India in partnership with the government, with around 15,000 ambulances and 60,000 employees. GVK EMRI everyday handles 60,000 to 80,000 emergencies and saves on average around 1000 lives per day and gives birth to on average 200 babies a day. Since inception in 2007, GVK EMRI saved over 5 million lives and handled over 200 million emergencies.
Vice Chairman
Aragen Lifesciences (www.aragen.com) Founded Aragen, one of Asia's largest pharmaceutical services companies, which employs more than 2500 scientists. Aragen offers support to various research and development organizations of top pharma and biotech companies in the world.
Education
Agents in Hyderabad, Telangana
K Ramakrishna
Cheif Executive Officer; Cement Business THE KCP LIMITED
Madhu Kumar Thuraganuru Subbegowda
RPA Project Manager & Solutions Architect | Championing AI-Driven Process Automation | 2× Automation Anywhere MVP | CoE Strategy & Transformation | Automation Anywhere & Agentic Process Automation (APA)
Amarnath Reddy
Managing Director at Spectrum Lifesciences
Ashish Bharati
Co-founder at GigHub | Ex-Civil Servant | ISB Alumnus