Prakash Manchanda

Dr. Om Prakash Manchanda is the Managing Director of Dr Lal PathLabs, India's largest medical diagnostics company. Popularly known as 'Om' among his friends, colleagues and close business associates, he has a diverse experience of over 24 years across sales, marketing and general management functions in business sectors such as FMCG, agri-biotech products, consumer healthcare and medical diagnostics.

Before joining Dr Lal PathLabs in 2005, Manchanda led the International & Innovation group of the Consumer Healthcare Division at Ranbaxy. He was part of the senior management team responsible for launching Ranbaxy's foray into consumer healthcare.

Prior to Ranbaxy, he worked for Monsanto as the head of Sales and Marketing, where his team successfully launched the company's first ever biotech product Bt-Cotton.

Earlier, during his tenure with Hindustan Unilever for about 10 years, Manchanda received in-depth exposure in consumer product sales, distribution and marketing. He cherishes the memory of how at Unilever, as the Senior Brand Manager - Innovation, he had led the designing and launching of a tea-based beverage at HLL, which won Unilever's Global Innovation Award. Manchanda considers that award special among the several awards he had received at Unilever.

An MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Manchanda is also a Doctor in Veterinary Sciences from HAU, Hisar.

He is an avid reader of management books with his favourite authors being Steven Covey, Jack Welch, Peter M Senge and John Philip Jones.