Kalpana is a Chartered Accountant who has worked extensively in the Healthcare sector. She was formerly Group Finance Head of Jain Group of Hospitals, a well-established mutlidisciplinary super-specialty hospital & pharmacy cluster. During her tenure, she was instrumental in fostering an agile, thriving organizational ecosystem, and led all finance activities including ERP implementation with integrated finance module, short term and long term fundraising, and risk management. Her role involved managing finances of clinical research projects, the postgraduate medical education department (accredited by the National Board of Examinations & Medical sciences), and undergraduate clinical teaching for the International Medical School of Malaysian Medical Council.
She has also worked on charity projects funded by Smile Train Inc., USA and World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark which benefited thousands of needy patients. She is an advocate of empathetic leadership – to recognize unique and diverse skill sets, empower team members, and to create a positive culture of higher productivity. She has previously worked with the Rajarajeshwari Group of medical and dental institutions and was also a practicing CA from 1997 to 2004, before she ventured into the industry.