Dr L Ramanan

Founder Founder Trustee

Training Research SME Service Service to Society

When I Dreamt of 'MAKING IN INDIA'

'MAKE IN INDIA' WAS NOT A SLOGAN

' THE SUCCESS STORY '

The path I had travelled was... Rough.. Risky.. Adventurous.. with Fun & Achievement

25th Nov 2010 was an Important day in my career, as I had decided that it would be my last working day as an Employee after 25+ Years of professional career, studded with highest awards from my employers like GE, Lucas-TVS, Ministry of Railways - Govt of India, Global award from HP & Jaguar for one of my published work, Patents and Publications.

Took a risk by leaving a lovely Career while I was in peak of my performance, out-performing with accomplishments studded with Higest awards, patents etc., with the Global Leader GE for more than a decade, for a cause I believed in or to see whether I can realise my "Dream"... It was a very tough decission!!!

My Last Day Memoirs at GE, JFWTC India - In Front of GE's Hall of Fame & Potrait for Having Earned the title as "Pillars of Pride" accross all Business of GE

GE provided me tons of opportunity to execute and excell in every filed... GE fuelled my passion for Medical device and make me realise that I can deliver Patents in highly Safety Critical Medical Device.

Representing GE at its Customer In Highly Safety Critical Medical Device - Cath Lab

GE provided me the opportunity to work on the highly safety critical medical device that is used for deploying the stent, interact with luminary doctors and live in Cath Labs while solving some of the toughest clinical challenges by technology advancements to the product... As worked for the design for Cath Lab, earned patents and living in Cath Lab made me think and dream deeply to contribute to the product medical devices and particularly to "Coronary Artery Stent"

I owe the credit for sowing the seed for my dream on either to 'Make in India' or support the noble manufacturers who are 'Making in India' affordable products to the un-affordable segment, more particularly to my fellow Indians.

An incident that affected me, was an accident we happened to witness in remote place of Karnataka during March 2006, when myself along with my friends went for a team outing, we happened to come across this accident of van rollover from the top to this level as in picture, on a hilly region of Karnataka. Fortunately, there were no fatal incident, but the incident left many who travelled in the van with fractured hand, lying in pain on the other side of the road.. they were waiting for the bus which would arrive in the Afternoon... there is a primary healthcare center at 5km from accident spot, but did not have basic primary healthcare medical devices... victims have to be transported for ~20 km to diagnose fracture and treat... We stopped our car, provided them the food and first aid and made them transported to hospital and then proceeded to our spot of team outing...

For these type of demanding rural needs of India, V. Raja, fromer CEO of GE Healthcare, mentor for many like myself, shown it to the World, how MNCs like GE can help in affordable Health care, through PPP model like BANAVARAM.

One thing while leaving GE Health care was clear in my mind... I believed in myself that I can do something as a humble contribution of mine in miniscule, to the Medical Device, make a smallest difference to common man as my tiniest contribution towards affordable Healthcare and realise MY DREAM

LEARNINGS from ENTERPRENURIAL PRTNERSHIP:

Though the first six months of leaving GE from a glorious accomplished career and partnering in a new venture is an experience by itelf... Taking a risk of investing hard earned money in partnership business and take 1/3 of GE's salary that too after few months and paying 1/3rd of it Professional Tax from Salary, was not a easy job...

I am grateful to my friends and peers in the partnership firm I ventured in, they were kind and courteous, but at the cost of burning my fingers... The experience was real time sensing cash-flow, pressures of finacial crunches in the start-up, managing varied interests, understanding partners' dynamics and their interested suppliers, etc... the experience is equivalent to acquiring an Executive MBA, by learning intricacies of business. I enjoyed working with my brilliant team of young engineers and partners, while leaving my legacy with my mark on the existing products on quality. I am thankful to my partners, they were kind and I got my investments back with interest when I decide to part with them. Though I lost remaining 2/3 of salary which was accounted as investment of co-founders.

Birth and Success of 'RAISE' - As an Entreprenuer:

My passion to make a smallest contribution and deliver a tiniest contribution to my country's need on Health Care, was still growing as a "Fire in Belly" and my "Dream" was still fresh resulted in venturing to RAISE during Q3 2011

I Realised my Dream of 'MAKING IN INDIA' by Serving RAISE's Valued Customers

25th November 2013... Three years after leaving GE

Did I realise my dream? Did I make a tinniest difference? YES!!!

I am happy that RAISE made me to realise my dream by delivering a Coronary Artery Stent Design to One of My Customers... It is my tiniest contribution along with my team to mankind and leave a legacy... Today, RAISE is specialising in Implantable Devices Design and all other variants of Scafolds...I am grateful to my noble customer for this Opportunity to work for them and realise my dream and to leave a legacy...

RAISE's Noble Design to Our Noble Customer SMT, The Leader 'Pledged to SAVE MILLIONS' - SMT is the FIRST STENT MANUFACTURER IN INDIA

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Since Sept 2016 I am Part of SMT FAMILY

We are Onto Our Journey, Counting Multiple Successes!!

RAISE apart from support to product development, has designed, developed and delivered more than 10000+ man hours of training to impact product quality through reputable professional bodies like IMTMA, ACMA, ASQ and many others apart from In-House Corporate Programs...

We Owe our Successes to You !!

I am grateful to all of you my friends, Professors, Mentors, well wishers, Associations, my respectful past employers , RAISE's worshipful Customers and my dear family for standing by me during testing times with the encouragement and support in preparing me to achieve and realise my dream. I stand committed to the value, trust and confidence you have in me.

All of You made that Change in me... Changed me to meet the Challenges... Changed me to take that Next Bold Step... Changed me to Dream Big... Changed me to anlyse options you provided... Changed me to Take Risk... Made me Realise my Dream...

Seeking your continued blessings and good wishes on the decision I have taken by Your support and Bless me for my future endeavour as detailed below on the simple Story.

Seeking your continued support, wishes and encouragements to achieve.

RAISE's Social Responsibility !!

IT is a Pride that RAISE also helped in realising the RICE's Projects and Supported it to achieve 3X Growth...