Dr (Maj) Satish Jeevannavar

Dr Satish Jeevannavar is a physician, ex-army medical corps officer, and an alumnus of IIM Bangalore with over 25 years of experience in scaling startups in primary healthcare, mHealth, pharma and life science strategy consulting in India, across APAC and emerging markets. He launched the mHealth services with a leading telecom partner across 23 circles (2015-16). Dr Jeevannavar was instrumental in scaling 0-60 primary care clinics across five states, launching India’s first OPD insurance product and the Senior Citizen Independent Home Project in Bangalore (2010-15).

He is also the founder and CEO of Ai Health Highway, a med-tech startup from FSID/IISC. The company has won several competitions, including the Top 24 Maharashtra Startup Challenge 2025, Leap to Unicorn Season 2, Phix.Ai Public Health Tech Challenge 2024, and PHC Tech Challenge 2021. It is also one of the 27 most promising ML startups selected for Amazon’s AWS ML Elevate 2022 program.