Anuradha Acharya's Biography

Anuradha Acharya, CEO, Ocimum Biosolutions

Ms. Anu Acharya is the CEO of Mapmygenome India Limited, an Indian genomics company providing a range of prognostics, diagnostics, and brain wellness solutions. She is the Founder of Ocimum Biosolutions, which she led as the CEO from 2000 to March 2013. Ms. Acharya was named a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum for class of 2011 and serves on its Global Agenda Council as a member of the Personalized and Precision Medicine. She currently serves as a governing board member at CSIR and at NIBMG. Ms. Acharya has been a past President of the Hyderabad chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization and currently serves on the boards of ABLE (Association of Biotech Led Enterprises) and TIE Hyderabad. She was selected by Red Herring Magazine to “25 Tech Titans under 35” in 2006. For 2008, she was named Biospectrum “Entrepreneur of the Year” and was also awarded the Astia Life Science Innovators Award in the same year.