Board Of Directors

Probal Ghosal

Chairman- Ujala Cygnus Healthcare Services

Probal Ghosal, Executive Chairman- Ujala Cygnus Healthcare Services
Heading the fastest growing, unique healthcare business in India, Mr Probal Ghosal has been at the forefront of pathbreaking innovations.  He has led strategic shifts in companies across diverse sectors  (telecom, media, entertainment, financial services, infrastructure) and now healthcare. Mr Ghosal reshaped numerous organisations through turnaround strategies, corporate restructuring, fund raising, and public equity offerings.
Mr Ghosal has been instrumental in diversifying Amar Ujala Group into healthcare with a unique focus on affordable services in tier II & tier III cities of India.

Mr Ghosal was the architect of Ujala Healthcare with Amar Ujala as partner. This company took controlling stake of Cygnus and became Ujala Cygnus.

Ujala Cygnus achieved a complete turnaround with his leadership and innovative business models.

Today, Ujala Cygnus is synonymous with wide range of innovations in the areas of affordable health care and treatment facilities through experienced medical professionals. Ujala Cygnus is ushering in a new era of social equity and availability of quality medical treatment in rural and semi urban India under the aegis of Mr Ghosal.

Diversity, value creation and innovations across businesses have been the hallmark of Mr. Ghosal’s career.

Mr. Ghosal is also a music afficionado and avid soccer fan

Dr. Shuchin Bajaj

Founder Director- Ujala Cygnus Healthcare Services

Dr shuchin bajaj had just completed his MD in internal medicine when a few personal stories of friends and family forced him to leave his job and further studies at one of the biggest hospitals of Delhi and start on this entrepreneurial venture of trying to provide the highest quality of healthcare to all communities, regardless of their financial, social or geographical status. Dr Bajaj has dedicated his whole life right from his college days towards this mission of equitable healthcare access. As the founder of Cygnus Medicare and Altius healthcare, Dr Bajaj has been at the forefront of setting up hospitals in five states of north India and looking for further expansion. Dr Bajaj works closely with the unit Heads at the hospitals along with the medical directors, To ensure medical excellence, adherence to ethics and focus on efficiencies, so that highest quality healthcare can be provided at lowest possible costs.

Dr. Shuchin Bajaj, Alumnus of Prestigious institutions like INSEAD, King’s College, London, IIM Calcutta and PGIMS Rohtak, is our Director.

Dr. Bajaj is a highly qualified medical scholar. After completing his MBBS from PGIMS, Rohtak, he did his Doctorate in Internal Medicines (MD) from Dr S N Medical College, Jodhpur in 2004. Apart from the foregoing, he also did Certified Professional course on Diabetes Management and Total Control from American Academy of Continuing Medical Education, USA in 2008, Advanced Program in Strategic Management from I.I.M. Calcutta in 2013 and Advanced Program in Cardiac Emergencies from Boston University in 2014.

Dr Bajaj was the recipient of the British Government’s 2015 Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence award at King’s College London, where he spent considerable time studying the various facets of Leadership, its various challenges and its learnings for India.

He was also selected for freeship to the ‘Innovating Health for Tomorrow” Fellowship at INSEAD, France in 2017 and his project for Ambulance services was the top of the class of 40 high ranked professionals from around the world.

Dr. Bajaj is also an Aspire Fellow, a Fellowship dedicated to enlightened social leadership, held at IIM, Ahmedabad and conducted by Dr. Pradeep Khandwala, Ex Director, IIMA.

He has also completed the Elite Seed Transformation Program conducted by the Stanford Global Business School.

He is on the board of a number of national prominent NGOs as Advisor-Health Programmes and has played an active part in the Healthcare Track for Xynteo’s India2022 coalition as well as being part of the Helpage International’s Regional Research Initiative on Older People’s Health as the Academic partner of the International Health Working Group.

In addition to numerous other awards and accolades, Shuchin has received the “World Wide Achievers Health Care Excellence Award 2014” for Healthcare Excellence in Internal Medicine in Delhi and NCR, ”Best Consultant in Internal Medicine in Delhi 2012” by the Time Research Media Foundation, “National Award for Excellence in Healthcare 2015” for fastest growing healthcare chain in North India along with “2015 Leaders Award”. In the past Dr. Bajaj has also received “Stars of the Industry Healthcare Awards” for excellence in managing tertiary healthcare centers in Tier-II towns, “4th MT India Healthcare Awards” for most promising healthcare chain of India, Most Promising Healthcare Brand and Best Upcoming Hospital Chain, amongst others. Dr Bajaj were featured by the Economic Times in a feature on Entrepreneurs Leading Disruptive Change. Dr. Bajaj is also the winner the Healthcare Leader of the Year, 2017 Awards.

Dr. Bajaj is an avid Healthcare Investor and is associated with multiple Health Tech Companies as investor, Board Member and mentor. He also sits on the TBIU Board of The Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) at IIT, Delhi.

Mayur Sirdesai

Director- Ujala Cygnus Healthcare Services

Mayur Sirdesai runs a Healthcare focused PE fund called Somerset Indus Capital Partners focused on investments in products and services platforms in the SME sector of Healthcare in India. The fund focuses on investments that create strong and sustainable impact in the healthcare sector especially in the lower tier markets and provide access to affordable quality healthcare in India. The fund has a strong track record of making several successful investments across Pharma, Lifesciences, Medical Technology, Diagnostic products and Services, Healthcare Delivery, Primary Care, Nutrition and Wellness.

Dr. Manish Sharma

Director- Ujala Cygnus Healthcare Services

Dr. Manish Sharma is a distinguished Laparoscopic and trauma surgeon having more than 2 decades of experience in the surgery field. He started his professional journey in July 1995 at NHL Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad as an undergraduate followed by postgraduate training (MS) in
General Surgery at BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad.
As a professional Laparoscopic and trauma surgeon he has worked at various hospitals in Delhi-NCR including Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Delhi and Braham Shakti Sanjivani Hospital, Bahadurgarh.
He became Head of the Department of Surgery as well as Medical Superintendent of Braham Shakti Sanjivani Hospital in the year 2008 & as Medical Director of Brahm Shakti Sanjivani Hospital in the year 2013. Under his aegis, different types of life saving surgeries such as bullet injuries, violent trauma, roadside accidents etc. are being performed and most importantly these procedures are done with compassion and personal touch. He has a track record of performing more than 17,000 surgeries including laparoscopic appendix, hernia, gall bladder, uterus, ovarian cyst etc. He has devoted the years of his life towards serving the community (mix of rural, semi-urban and urban population) at outskirts having poor infrastructure for medical
services. In this era of corporate hospitals, his commitment to serve the poor and neglected masses is highly commendable. He has been actively involved with various NGO and social organizations for conducting medical camps, road safety programs and lectures for de-addictions and healthy living. In last 5 years he has emerged as heath entrepreneur in NCR area involving Jhajjar, Rohtak & Bahadurgarh.

Rajul Maheshwari

Director- Ujala Cygnus Healthcare Services

Mr. Rajul Maheshwari, is the Chairman & Managing Director of Amar Ujala Limited (Formerly Amar Ujala Publications Limited). Mr. Maheshwari holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from University of Delhi. He has about 31 years of experience of the Indian newspaper industry. He was the member of executive council of The Indian Newspaper Society, New Delhi. Mr. Maheshwari has played a central role in the establishment of various units in western, eastern and central parts of Uttar Pradesh. He has been actively involved in restructuring various departments at the corporate level of our Company, including the human resources, administration, marketing and finance departments.

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