Ananth Sankaranarayanan

Ananth Narayanan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Medlife, the largest e-health company in India, with business verticals including pharmacy, diagnostics and e-consultation. A leader with a strong vision, he oversees growth, leads Mergers and Acquisitions and formulates strategy around new areas of growth, while also strengthening the team. He believes in the power of technology in making healthcare simple, personal and accessible to all.

Prior to this he served as the CEO of Myntra and Jabong, the country’s largest platform for fashion and lifestyle products. Under his leadership, the company witnessed 6x growth in a span of 3.5 years, while improving profitability, with the right foundation for long term success.

Featured as one of “India’s Hottest 40 under 40 Business Leaders” in 2014, Ananth has deep expertise in driving performance improvement and product development. Prior to joining Myntra, Ananth was a Director at Mckinsey & Company for 15 years and has worked across four offices (Chicago, Shanghai, Taipei and Chennai. His role entailed leading the Product Development practice in Asia and working with companies on strategy and operations.

Ananth serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Marico and is an active member of YPO, the global community of young leaders and chief executives. He is a part of the Champions of Change, Transformation Conclave set up by Niti Aayog, under the aegis of Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India. He is also on the Board of Arghyam, a foundation set up by Rohini Nilekani to improve access to safe water. He leverages his vast experience and knowledge from years in consultancy and managing operations to mentor start-ups and has helped them to create systems and processes, build stakeholder communities, effectively reach out to markets and scale up their business. He regularly speaks at various summits organized by premier institutes such as The Economist, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan and University of Michigan among others.

Ananth has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Madras and a Masters from the University of Michigan, in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He is an active member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and is also on the Industry Advisory Board of the University of Michigan.