Amrita Technologies - Board of Directors

Ron Gottsegen is the Administrative Director of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin. Ron hails from Northern California, sold his successful electronic security alarm company, Salinas-based Radonics and moved to Cochin to oversee construction and administration of the 1300-bed AIMS hospital. He also helped to set up a sprawling 160-acre Mata Amritanandamayi ashram in San Ramon, California, in 1989.

Dr. P.Venkat Rangan is Vice Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. He was professor, Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and founder and director of multimedia lab at the university. Dr. Rangan has been the recipient of President of India’s gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai in 1984. He ranked first again in his graduate studies in Computer Science at Cornell University. His Ph.D. research work at UC Berkeley, California was again judged as the outstanding Ph.D of the year by IBM. He has also won several prestigious awards including the NCR Research Innovation Award in 1991 and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) National Young Investigator Award in 1993, and 25 best entrepreneurs of US Award by the President of America in 2000. Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, at the age of 33, was one of the youngest full professors at the University of California, San Diego.He has also been Founder CEO of Yodlee Inc., which is a multi-national leader in online aggregation services.

Pradeep Achan took his B.Tech (Honors) in Naval Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Pradeep Achan has over 13 years of experience in software development and deployment of enterprise applications on variety of platforms. He has worked for organizations like Sun Micro systems, Network Associates, Nortel Networks and Tata Unisys. He is the brain behind Amrita HIS (Amrita Hospital Informatics Suite), a complex ERP application covering clinical, administrative and financial areas, developed by Amrita. His experience in developing operating system level software has led to the design and development of Health Care Middleware Operating System, a patent pending technology for Amrita.