Suresha Venkataraya

Suresha is the Chief Executive Officer of AWAK Technologies. He has spent over a decade in the medical technology space, enabling company growth, increasing revenues, and developing various innovative medical devices.

Prior to becoming CEO at AWAK Technologies, he worked for Hill-Rom, a US$5.4B (market cap) medical devices company (NYSE: HRC), as the Director for Front Line Care business, where he was responsible for developing and commercialising new products, and spearheading innovation culture. He joined as the first engineer in the newly formed division in Hill-Rom Singapore, helped the team to grow it substantially, and commercialised five medical devices across the globe.

As the leader of the Innovation and Technology Integration team ,Suresh was instrumental in driving the patent portfolio of the Singapore division, which not only resulted in numerous patent applications but also opened avenues for new market growth.

He has acquired deep domain expertise in areas such as Respiratory Care, ECG/Cardio, Remote Patient Monitoring and Therapy Surface Technologies, and has navigated many complex products in these domains through 510 (K) and CE clearance processes.

Before joining Hill-Rom, Suresha was a technical leader at Robert Bosch, world largest automotive component supplier with a revenue of Euro 73B , where he provided leadership to a talented team of engineers in the development of cutting-edge engine control system solutions for world-renowned companies such as Daimler Chrysler and Mercedes.

For more than a decade he has cultivated extensive experience in the fields of Marketing, R&D, IP, QA/RA, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Clinical Affairs and Regulatory Affairs.

Suresha sits on the grant evaluation panel of Spring Singapore for its Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme and for the NTU-NUS JumpStart program.

Suresha received a Master of Science degree in Computer Control Systems from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India.

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