ISB Alumni Subramani Ramachandrappa, from the Class of 2004 , was recently profiled in a study conducted by the National Knowledge Commission, 2008 on ‘Entrepreneurship in India’. He has also been nominated as the Honorary Ambassador for the DST-Intel India Innovation Pioneer Challenge in partnership with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.

“Entrepreneurship is spicy. If you like it, you will enjoy every bite,” says ISB alumni Subramani Ramachandrappa, Subbu to friends, from the Class of 2004 at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Founder and CEO of Richcore Lifesciences, a Bangalore based application-research based bio-pharmaceutical company, which started in 2001 from a single bedroom apartment with a single employee, his sister, Subbu has indeed traversed the entire road -from start up to success.


Today Richcore intends to reach a market valuation of $45 million in the next three years, and go public thereafter. Its ultimate objective is to become an integrated multinational biotech company. Recently Subbu was profiled in a study conducted by the National Knowledge Commission, 2008 on ‘Entrepreneurship in India’. He has also been nominated as the Honorary Ambassador for the DST-Intel India Innovation Pioneer Challenge in partnership with Indo-US Science and Technology Forum. It was at the ISB, Subbu acknowledges, that he acquired the requisite feelers needed to sense potential business opportunities. “Some of the best brains about whom I had only read in books, excellent teachers and exemplary peers constantly edged me to surpass,” he recalls.

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