Leadership: BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Balaji Uppili

Balaji Uppili
Balaji Uppili

Balaji has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, across application value management, infrastructure management, BPO and Strategic Operations handling, P&L, Delivery, Operations and customer relations across multiple verticals which includes Information Services, Retail & Hospitality, Media & Publishing, Manufacturing & Logistics, and Consumer goods. Balaji has played various roles across geographies viz., USA, Continental Europe, and Asia Pacific, through his previous stints at Patni Computers, L&T Infotech, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Virtusa Software Solution Limited.

Guru Bhoopala

Guru Bhoopala
Guru Bhoopala

Guru has over 20 plus years of business leadership experience across industries and geographies. In his prior engagements, he was the Vice President and part of the Leadership Team at iGate Corp and was responsible for multiple industry verticals. He is also experienced in marketing and has driven marketing for global companies like Coca-Cola and Asian Paints. He has expertise in engaging with global 2000 CXOs, building businesses through client engagement, building value based relationships and crafting solutions that addresses client business problems. He holds an engineering degree and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IIM Bangalore, India.His interests include writing blogs on various technology and business issues. Guru is a passionate trekker and a runner and has participated in several marathons and trekked in various regions of the world.

Keith B Pitts

Mr. Pitts served as the vice chairman of Tenet Healthcare Corporation from 2013 until 2019. He joined Tenet from Vanguard Health Systems, where he also served as vice chairman. Prior to joining Vanguard, he served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Mariner Post-Acute Network, a post-acute services group that operated nursing homes, long-term acute-care hospitals, sub-acute assisted living facilities, and institutional pharmacies and provided therapy and rehabilitation staffing services. In addition, Mr. Pitts served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer for OrNda HealthCorp, a predecessor of Tenet. Prior to joining OrNda, he was a consultant to healthcare organizations, including as a partner in Ernst & Young’s healthcare consulting practice. He is a member in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Florida Institute of CPAs, and served three terms as the chairman of the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH), the industry association that represents investor-owned hospitals. Mr. Pitts is a CPA and has a B.S. in business administration from the University of Florida.

Directorships

CD&R Investments

Experience

  • Tenet Healthcare Corporation | Vice Chairman
  • Vanguard Health Systems | Vice Chairman
  • Mariner Post-Acute Network | Chairman & CEO
  • OrNda HealthCorp | EVP & Chief Financial Officer
  • Ernst & Young | Partner

Education

  • University of Florida | B.S., business administration

Sumit Ganguli

Sumit Ganguli
Sumit Ganguli

Sumit has been in the Information Technology industry for the last 25+ years and is fascinated with the new trends in technologies in Predictive Analytics, AI, Automation, etc.. Sumit is a strong proponent of Culture in the corporate world, and believes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.

He is an Award-Winning Author of a Book, ‘Success Breakthrough’, that he co-authored with Jack Canfield of the Chicken Soup of the Soul series and other authors. He recently (a couple of weeks ago) won the ‘ET NOW Business Leader of the Year (Technology), and he was selected by the Times Group as one of the ‘Top 50 most promising leaders in Asia’.

Todd Wilkes

Todd Wilkes
Todd Wilkes

Todd has spent the past 25+ years leading, designing, developing and delivering healthcare analytical and operational solutions that are meeting Premier’s goal of improving our members’ quality outcomes, while safely reducing costs. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Clemson University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.