As an in-house quality monitoring expert, Dr. Karthigesan supervises all outgoing reports from all our centres across the country, to ensure that they conform to lofty standards of accuracy and stand up to the highest levels of analytical scrutiny, besides contributing to the education and training of our personnel, and mentoring our young technicians. Highly qualified and with rich experience in cardiology and electrophysiology, Dr. Karthigesan adds even more credence and credibility to our offerings.

After earning his M.B.B.S degree from Thanjavur Medical College in 1997, Dr. Karthigesan went on to complete his M.D in Nagpur in 2000, before studying at the Diplomate of the National Board in General Medicine, and then the Diplomate of the National Board in Cardiology until 2004. He then went on to undertake an electrophysiology fellowship at the acclaimed Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology in Bangalore and a fellowship in AFib Ablation at the Shanghai Chest Hospital, China, in 2010. He has also completed multiple electrophysiology observerships in multiple hospitals in the US.

A part of several medical societies across Asia and Europe, Dr. Karthigesan has completed many clinical studies and published several papers and abstracts. He is a certified Electrophysiology (CEPS) and Device specialist (CCDS) from IBHRE, USA, and has been awarded Fellow in Heart Rhythm Society (FHRS) as recognition of his competence and dedication to service against arrhythmia.

With over 18 years of experience in talent management, personnel administration, recruitment and selection, training and development and general administration, Rajesh is a savant in acquiring, supporting and managing large workforces. His experience in policy formulation for people activities like manpower planning and performance management are demonstrated to have produced exemplary results in such monumental organisations as Reliance Retail and Whirlpool India

A keen communicator with the ability to relate to people across all hierarchical levels in the organization, Rajesh possesses the ability to motivate people to achieve organizational objectives. On his Atlas-like shoulders he can carry the weight of massive portfolios, effortlessly bridging the often-wide gulf between company philosophy and employee aspiration. With a significant stint in the USA, Rajesh carries under his belt truly global exposure, which he allows to inform the nuanced, balanced and highly dexterous constructs of his professional excellence.

Avinash Kumar Issac, who has been part of our family since 2016, leads from the front and on the back of over a decade’s experience in the clinical realm. Avinash’s educational qualifications from the American academia exceed the length of a line even when shortened. However, his knowledge is anything but theoretical, backed as it is by the eclectic experience of working with various super-speciality hospitals, heart institutes, research centres and medical colleges.

He has worked, boots-in-the-mud, in emergency and casualty wards, cardiac catheterization laboratories, surgical theatres, cardiac rhythm monitoring laboratories and diagnostic departments, critical care and high dependency units, trauma ICUs, and even ACLS ambulances. He has also enjoyed a stellar stint in a medical college as a clinical educator, and is skilled in life-saving techniques, ventilator management, cardiac monitoring, modular ICUs, and is something of an authority in the latest cardiac interventions and other investigatory procedures.

All this combines to afford Avinash far-reaching expertise in heart rhythm analysis, cardiac interventions and emergency care management, which we naturally leverage to spectacular effect in the challenging arena of the real world. A cycling enthusiast, he loves exploring new places and playing outdoor sports. Having witnessed a lot of what can go wrong with the body, he’s also passionate about health and fitness to keep illnesses at bay. Avinash’s encyclopaedic array of knowledge, skills and abilities helps us offer a lot, and embed a lot in everything we offer.

A veteran professor of psychology, syllabus creator, trainer and more, Prof. V. G. Thyagarajan serves as a senior mentor based in the Chennai centre and brings with him a mountain of experience in skilling, orientation, counselling and delivering rousing talks.
'Prof. VGT', as he's fondly known, contributes in a number of ways to address the mentoring needs of the staff, by developing content for internal training, liaising with colleges for campus drives, and training the trainers on the internal education team in soft skill development.
A staff favourite, Prof. VGT channels his passion to shape knowledge into transmissible form, and shares his enormous wisdom in digestible nuggets, thus lighting a spark in everyone to aim beyond their reach and build a staircase to their dreams. He also writes an extremely insightful and popular column that’s a staple of both our internal monthly magazine as well as our blog, HeartCopy.
An expert in staff psychology and managerial strategies, Prof. VGT is a life coach too, and a leading light in making Healthwatch an employer of choice and a truly desirable place in which to achieve your potential.

Ensuring that all the messaging about the work we’re doing is not lost in translation is writer, editor and content strategist, Santosh Saligram, who heads our creative marketing and communications efforts. A qualified mechanical engineer, Santosh took up communications instead when he realised that he liked coaxing art out of words and pictures more than forcing it out of numbers and equations – a decision that has led to more than 15 years’ experience in shaping language and visuals into vehicles of connection and understanding.

Accordingly, Santosh is interested in the architecture of content that has an aesthetic goal as much as a functional one. He often describes his work as an act of “transmission of the emotional essence of a subject”, and pursues it through a verbal and visual language working in cohesion to produce the intended effect in everything he does, which includes web design, UI and UX architecture, corporate and internal communications, digital marketing, and social media content design and strategy.

A passionate photographer, filmmaker and storyteller, Santosh has formerly been the chief editor of a travel-and-photography company, a photography mentor for learners, and a tour leader for wildlife photography enthusiasts. He has also spearheaded successful efforts to bring technology into the assessment of spoken and written English skills in the Indian space. Santosh’s vision is to endow Healthwatch with a lasting identity that befits the tremendous work everybody at the company does, to reflect in everything we say, show and project, a glimpse of the technological prowess that we exercise daily at all levels, and through our content, create value and meaning for people who spend their precious time, bestowing on us their invaluable trust. After all, says he, if we look for beauty in everything we do, we’ll soon find everything in beauty.

Healthwatch is a company dedicated to improving the lives of people, using the skills of highly talented people. And overseeing the acquisition and management of the wealth of talent we employ is Ramya Agilan.

With over 10 years’ experience in all areas of workforce operations and management, including compensation and benefits and labour compliance, Ramya is at her best when she’s with people, interacting with them to understand their trials and triumphs, and challenges and aspirations, to create the most positive atmosphere at work from where great achievements can prosper with the ease of the conveyance of a blade of grass over a few feet.

For a company that has it instilled in its existential fabric that people are everything, Ramya is one of its most important custodians.

Juggling many balls and managing recruitment, engagement, payroll, performance and more, Ramya transcends the expertise she gained from her MBA at the St. Peter’s College, Anna University, to define, conduct and preserve the cultural ethos of the company as an aspirational place to work and succeed.

Although she loves nothing more than making all this possible, her personal interests include whipping up delicious curries, putting on imaginative moves on the dance stage, and swinging the racket with precision across the high net on a badminton court. And for someone who sees work as sort of play, that is apt.

Let us bring to your attention the man whose attention nothing escapes. Saurabh Singh, who’s been with Healthwatch since 2011, just its second year of inception, is our hawkeye for all statutory compliances, accounts and administration. A bachelor of commerce from Delhi University, Saurabh is a semi-qualified chartered accountant, backed up by more than 13 years’ experience in accounting and taxation.

It is on the foundation of the loyalty and dedication of foot soldiers like Saurabh that the edifice of Healthwatch is built, for it is only standing on the tower of sound bricks that you can view far, and no tree can spread its branches without deep roots. Never letting his guard down, Saurabh manages to read books and blogs, and enjoys a spot of playing musical instruments in tandem with the lofty responsibilities being an allrounder entails.

As General Manager of IT, S Prabakaran plays a pivotal role in steering the technological direction and ensuring the overall success of the department. Leading seasoned professionals with diverse expertise, Prabakaran is responsible for driving innovation, enhancing operational efficiency, and aligning IT strategies with organisational objectives, including important privacy and security compliances.

With an MCA from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, and an MBA from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, he holds certifications in several programming languages and technologies. Combined with over twenty-four years’ experience in IT in various sectors, including more than fifteen years in FMCG and over five years in healthcare, Prabakaran is a tech maestro who combines skills with symphonic effect to enable Healthwatch to be a technological powerhouse.

Sandeep Kumar Chaudhary heads our IT team and has been the backbone of our digital infrastructure since 2015. An MBA in IT from Sikkim Manipal University, Sandeep enjoys using his skills to keep the critical hardware infrastructure of Healthwatch running like clockwork, round the clock. His rich experience in the computer hardware and networking arena ensures that we’re always in a state of ‘all systems go!’, regardless of the time of day, week or year.

Sandeep is the man who sees to it that in the mission of hearing hearts and saving lives, we never slip to sleep. In his leisure Sandeep enjoys rambling through the many and intricate streets of cyberspace to gain acquaintance of the latest advancements in information technology around the world. And then use that knowledge to move us far into the future.