Ruchi Dana
Governance | Institutionalization | Startup to Firm
Dr Ruchi Dana is a multi-award winning doctor, thought-leader, innovator and entrepreneur. She is a frequent keynote speaker, panelist and moderator at various industry conferences and sits on several corporate, startup and NGO boards.
Ruchi Dana
As a Board Member of Dana Group, Dr Ruchi Dana is responsible for the company’s strategy throughout the GCC and Arab world region, advancing Dana Group’s position as an innovative industry leader, and a socially responsible enterprise that recognizes diversity and inclusion.
Ruchi has also worked with Golden Seeds, a women focused Angel Network in New York and New Silk Route Growth Capital, a PE firm in Dubai, she has mainly focused on healthcare related investments at both these firms.
While still in her early thirties, Ruchi is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded three businesses: Jugaad, an on-demand last mile logistics provider in the UAE, Pik A Venture, a crowdfunding accelerator platform for South-East Asia and One Big Family, an app for the elderly. Ruchi has been recognized by Forbes Middle East as the “Next Generation Business Leader, Arab World” for 3 consecutive years 2017, 2018 and 2019 and she has also been recognized by Campden Wealth as the “Women to Watch” in September’18 issue. Ruchi has also been recognized as “Top 75 Family Business Leaders” 2019 by Campden Research (UK)and was conferred with the Yuva Ratna Award, 2018. Most recently, Dr Ruchi was featured by Forbes on Power Businesswomen 2020 Middle East list.
Ruchi is the President, COO of Duluth Medical Technologies Inc, a Silicon Valley based Robotic Medical device startup. Duluth is focused to develop intelligent, agile and affordable surgical robots, to improve patient care. Ruchi has been working on medical devices right through her undergraduate college days and has published & presented various papers on low-cost medical devices at international conferences. While at Stanford, Ruchi was part of the Stanford BioDesign Team and her team won NIH grant for needs finding under the C-IDEA consortium at Stanford university.
Dr Ruchi Dana is an Experienced Board Member with a demonstrated history of working in the Investing, Startups, MedTech, Life Science, industrial engineering and retail industry.
Ruchi completed her MD from AMU and got her full-time MBA and PMP (Public Management and Social Innovation) degrees from Stanford University
Ruchi mentors startup founders & also volunteers her time for Médecins Sans Frontières, TiE and AIF (American India Foundation).
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Experience
Partner and Executive Board Member
DANA Group
Dubai based Business House with a manufacturing presence in MENA & Asia. Branch offices & manufacturing facilities in Dubai, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, India, Qatar, Libya and headquarters in the United Arab Emirates.
President, COO, Board Member
Duluth Medical Technologies Inc.
Duluth is a robotics surgical device startup, which is focused to develop intelligent, agile and affordable robots, to improve patient care. Our vision at Duluth is to Democratize Healthcare, making it more equitable and affordable.
Advisor
Loyal VC
Loyal VC operates a global startup index fund with over 125 investments across more than 30 countries. The fund is designed to minimize systemic bias inherent in the investment process, unlocking greater returns.