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Role Players 2018


Rohit M A

Cofounder & Managing Director
Cloudnine Group of Hospitals

Active Roles
Rohit M A is the Cofounder and Managing Director of Cloudnine Group of Hospitals - India's leading chain of maternity, women and child care service hospitals. Rohit has played a crucial role in the establishment and growth of the company and expanded operations from a single hospital in South Bangalore to other locations in Bangalore and now a multicity-chain across Chennai, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Navi Mumbai, Chandigarh, Delhi with more than 18 units and in the pursuit to setup 10 more units in the coming years.

As Managing Director, Rohit currently oversees and is actively involved in several core areas of Cloudnine including strategy, digital revolution, public relations, employee engagement and with critical focus on expansion of presence and development of new business models for the company. He has also led and managed the entire gambit of professionalizing the company and attracting top talents who form the core team of Cloudnine and also been responsible for leading the entire journey and stake holder management of private equity investors and has attracted investments of over 100 million dollars through marquee investors, in the likes of Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and TrueNorth(previously IVFA) having invested in to the company

Background & Experience
Coming from a very enterprising family based in Bangalore that nurtured entrepreneurship, Rohit, at the young age of 18, ventured into merchandizing for high-end consumer electronics. This was long before the advent of e-commerce and he ran it successfully for about 3 years. During this time he also graduated as a Gold Medalist in Engineering, specializing in Computer Science and went on to work for tech conglomerates such as Intel and SAP, where he pursued the opportunity to travel across the country and learn the nuances of managing operations of large business houses.

Following that, Rohit invested in and co-owned a popular watering hole in Bangalore called Purple Haze, which till date is a very popular hangout in the city. At Purple Haze, Rohit improved overall business metrics, operations, introduced technology for systems improvement and went on to help setup three more Purple Haze outlets, further enriching the brand in Bangalore.

Rohit has graduated from IIMB specializing in Entrepreneurship and with over 18 years of entrepreneurial experience, he also cofounded "Capier Investments" to invest in young startups across various sectors and thus far invested in over 7 startups and with the purpose of enabling more of them in the future. He is also a Certified Corporate Director as conferred by Institute of Directors (IOD), India

Awards & Accolades
Rohit has been awarded and commended with many accolades and also brought in several national and international recognition and laurels to the company through the various achievements and helped catapult brand Cloudnine. Amongst many such accolades, he was conferred with "Dynamic Entrepreneur of the Year 2016" through Entrepreneur India Network, featured as Icons of New India on CNBC TV18, one of the Hottest Young Entrepreneur in India, 2016 through Business World Magazine, listed amongst the top 100 customer service professionals through PaulWriter Cx100.

Rohit has also been one of the select few private healthcare service providers to be part of the Young Entrepreneurs Team of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Champions of Change" Initiative and has there on become a part of the healthcare panel for the government and contributes on policy management initiatives. Rohit has previously served as a member of the healthcare panel of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for the state chapter of Karnataka.