VikramVuppala IndiaNephroPlus

Vikram Vuppala is Founder & CEO of India’s largest dialysis network - NephroPlus. After spending 10 years in the US healthcare industry, his passion to redefine healthcare delivery in India prompted him to found NephroPlus in 2010. He has expanded NephroPlus to Asia’s leading dialysis network of 465+ centers in 280 cities across 4 Countries. NephroPlus has rapidly grown under Vikram’s leadership to become 5th largest dialysis network in the world. He had raised more than $200 MM in 6 rounds of Private equity funding over last 13 years from marquee investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), IFC (World Bank VC arm), Investcorp, and Quadria. Vikram’s vision of enabling people on dialysis worldwide lead long, happy and productive lives has enabled NephroPlus to redefine dialysis care across 4 countries and has positioned itself well to disrupt several other regions across the World in the near future. Prior to founding NephroPlus, Vikram was a strategy consultant at McKinsey in the US. Vikram with over two and half decades of global healthcare experience has helped various healthcare firms on strategic issues such as business development, growth strategy, portfolio rationalization, and M&A. Prior to McKinsey, he worked at Abbott Healthcare and ZS Associates. He has been a speaker at numerous international entrepreneurial, healthcare and investment conferences. Vikram did his B.Tech. from IIT-Kharagpur, M.S. from The University of Illinois, Chicago and an MBA from Chicago Booth.