Our team

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Founder, Currae Healthtech Fund

Apoorva Patni

Apoorva is the Director at Currae Healthcare, The Currae Healthtech Fund, and Currae Hospitals. He is a visionary, a “go getter” and he is instrumental in shaping and launching the Currae brand in India.

Apart from managing the hectic state of affairs at Currae, he is on the board of directors for multiple businesses with the Patni Group. He is a “from the trenches” entrepreneur, active investor in the healthtech space.

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President, Kalpavruksh

Sunil Chitale

Sunil Chitale is the President at Kalpavruksh. He is responsible for overall leadership, strategy and management of the company. Having spent 3 decades in the industry, he brings experience and expertise in building organizations to serve global customers. Prior to joining Kalpavruksh, Sunil Chitale held several business leadership positions at iGATE and Patni Computer Systems Ltd. At iGATE and Patni, he was responsible for corporate strategy, planning and marketing.

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Head of Investments

Manish Gupta

Manish leads investments at Currae Healthtech Fund and has more than 18 years of investing & portfolio management experience. He has earlier worked in family offices & private equity firms. He brings significant investment experience in consumer, healthcare and industrial sectors. Manish has also held multiple interim management roles in operating companies and led many M&A transactions. Earlier he has worked with TVS Capital, Art Capital, Brescon Advisors, Crisil and Deloitte.

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Head of International Business, PHPL

Mihir Shah

Mihir has over 12 years of experience in the healthcare sector. He was earlier working with Bharat Serums and Vaccines (BSV). As part of CMD’s office, he was involved across verticals in strategy, business development, sales, marketing and fund raising.
Mihir has also worked extensively in international markets and brings expertise in building international operations, teams, and partnerships. Prior to BSV, he was working at Tata Strategic Management Group.