Overview

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Anuradha Acharya is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mapmygenome January 2013.

Anu had founded Ocimum Biosolutions in 2000 and led the company through strategic international acquisitions, capital raises for equity investments and launch of several innovative products, solutions and services.

Anu currently serves as a Governing Board Member at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the premier R&D Organization in India and also a Governing Board Member at the National Institute for Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG).

Anu is a past President of the Hyderabad Chapter of theEntrepreneurs Organization and currently serves on the board of Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE).

Anu was recently named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum for its class of 2011. In 2008, Anu was named Biospectrum “Entrepreneur of the Year” and was conferred the Astia Life Science Innovators Award. Anu was selected by Red Herring Magazine to the list of “25 Tech Titans under 35″ in 2006.

Prior to founding Ocimum Biosolutions, Anu has had rich experience in the Telecom, IT and entrepreneurship arenas. Anu worked for a start-up in the telecommunications space called Mantiss Information and a consulting firm called SEI Information where she helped create a social networking site for entrepreneurs.

Anu's experience is backed by education at premier institutions such as the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India (IIT) and University of Illinois where she has two Post Graduate degrees B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics and Management Info Systems.