Ramesh Kannan is senior partner, somerset indus healthcare fund, a dedicated private equity fund in healthcare . After 2 successful funds , now in fund 3 – 288$ Mn and are backed by marquee investors both domestic & overseas

Kannan ramesh handles fund raising and manages investment/ portfolio companies

He has worked closely with several portfolio companies in the earlier two funds notably , Apex hospitals , Browndove , Cygnus hospitals, Prognosys in the past and now closely associated with Genworks, Natural, NU hospitals

His passion is to build , develop and contribute to healthcare and in the process learn & imbibe newer things from the generation next entrepreneurs

He has over 30 years of consulting experience in management, business, finance and strategy of which 25+ years in healthcare

He is a healthcare strategist, business strategy and catalyst, innovation and transformation specialist, is pro-active, participative, has personalized involvement in a company’s affairs and enables the company to achieve its objectives.

He focuses on fund raising, managing investor relations, deal sourcing, evaluation, concluding the deal, monitoring and value addition efforts at somerset

He helps companies in
– 1. Local consolidation 2. Regional aggregation 3. Pan India Expansion 4. Global integration;

He is responsible for Identifying opportunities, strategizing, proactively bringing to the table strategic and financial relationship opportunities, alliances and partnering prospects, joint venture, special purpose vehicle options, solicitation, mergers & acquisitions & leveraged buy outs;

He is also involved in managing and monitoring the strategic business initiatives and alliances to maximize value for the company.

He has worked with various healthcare delivery groups in South India to raise funds through Private Equity and is familiar with the entire deal process, documentation

He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.