Entrepreneur India 2012

Dr. O P Manchanda, Chief Executive Officer, Dr Lal PathLabs (LPL)

When Dr. Manchanda joined LPL in 2005, the company had a turnover of a little over Rs 40 crore with only 10 laboratories. Today, he has driven the transformation of the company into one of India’s largest medical diagnostics companies with a 60-strong laboratory network, 50 Patient Service Centres, 1,000 collection centres, and 4,000 pick-up points in more than 500 cities serving in excess of six million patients every year across India. By March 2011, the company is poised to touch a turnover of Rs 240 crore.

An MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad, he made his debut with Hindustan Unilever in 1990. Over the next 10 years, he received in-depth exposure in consumer products sales, distribution, marketing, advertising, brand innovations, et al. He led the designing and launching of a tea-based beverage, which won Unilever's Global Innovation Award.