Vaibhav Tewari – Chief Operating Officer, Portea Medical

Vaibhav has more than 20 years of extensive experience in building new businesses across industries such as healthcare, business process outsourcing, technology, and supply chain management.

At Portea, as a key member of the leadership team from the inception, Vaibhav has been instrumental in building the organisation to a scale of over 4000 employees with operations in 20 cities, He has also been driving several innovations such as point-of-care and remote monitoring of patients, a customer engagement programme (an industry-first in home healthcare) and diseases-specific offerings etc. 

In his earlier ventures, he co-founded iSeva, which was one of the first BPO and Tech Support companies in India. As the Founder and President, he set-up and ran the company’s India Operations in the initial years. Vaibhav moved on to assume the position of President – India operations at e4e, a company with which iSeva was merged in the year 2006. In this capacity, he managed their India operations across all the verticals with over 4000 employees.

He later co-founded o2s360, which offered B2B Distributor and Loyalty Management Software and was used at many large corporates in India.

He has also worked in well-known organisations like Citibank, Grindwell Norton and Microland in his career.

Vaibhav is also an accomplished speaker and has presented his views on various topics at forums/events such as Nathealth, CII-GES, ISB Health forum, InterOp, TiE, and Cloud Connect; and has numerous papers and articles to his credit. He is also actively involved in mentoring entrepreneurs; and serves as a Board of Director, Advisor and Mentor to many fast-growing companies across Internet, Retail Consumer and Technology verticals. Vaibhav has also been a judge and mentor at many Industry events like Power of Ideas (ET), TiE Entrepreneurship events, NEN, IBM SmartCamp, Women Entrepreneurship Quest, IITK fest and SLP etc.

Vaibhav has an MBA in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has completed a Bachelors’ degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur.

His hobbies include Golf and Astrology.

Links to interesting articles

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/home-healthcare-equipped-for-patient-care-at-home/1209808/

https://www.business-standard.com/article/pf/smart-spending-healthcare-services-at-home-need-not-be-expensive-118053100705_1.html

https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/startups/5-senior-startup-executives-share-the-best-career-advice-they-got/55109207

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