Management Team

Shobhit Agarwal joined Nova from Asia Healthcare Holdings where he was the Group CFO & Head – BD, accelerating the growth of all the portfolio cos: particularly the launch of the fertility vertical at Motherhood. He brings with him 25 years of diverse experience across various sectors including Healthcare, IT, Finance, Corporate Services. In the past Shobhit has been CEO & COO, Manipal Integrated Services and has spent 12 years in various leadership roles at Infosys.

Dr. Banker is the Past President of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction and a member of the Draft Committee for the ART Bill of India, ICMR. In addition to being a founder Board Member of Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproductive Endocrinology, he is a regional representative of International Committee for Monitoring ART and a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and Surveillance Editorial Board of International Federation of Fertility Societies. He was also the Chairman of Infertility Committee & Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Societies of India. He is the chairman of the Scientific Committee for the IFFS 2016 conference. He has been publishing the National ART Registry of India for 10 years and has numerous publications in indexed journals and contributed chapters in various textbooks.

Ms. Rupali Rane joined with us as Head HR in 2019. Rupali has a Masters in Management Studies from Bombay University and also an MBA from California State University. She has extensive work experience spanning 2 decades in Human Resources Management. She has handled business units across various domains such as Healthcare, Medical Devices and IT/ ITES. Over the last decade, she has been associated with the Healthcare domain. She specialises in process transformation & culture transition assignments. Prior to joining Nova, she worked as Head HR in Sutures India (Healthium Medtech).

Mr. Naveen Bakshi graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli with a degree in Engineering in Electronics and Communications. He brings with him an extensive work experience of 23 years in leadership roles in the areas of Information Technology, product development, project management, IT led strategy and innovation. He has managed enterprise scale products & platforms and worked closely with multi-disciplinary globally distributed teams and has worked towards translating strategic business initiatives to well defined IT initiatives and solutions. Prior to joining us, he worked as a Senior Principal Technology Architect with Infosys Technologies Ltd.

S Chandrasekar (Chandra) joined Nova in July 2016 and serves as the Executive Vice President, Operations. Chandra has over 24 years of extensive experience in Operations. Immediately, prior to joining Nova, Chandra was with Max Hypermarkets India in a leadership position managing South India. Chandra reports to the COO of Nova.