Sundeep Kapila

Biography

Sundeep Kapila is co-founder and CEO of Swasth Foundation, a not-for-profit social enterprise committed to Health and Joy for All.

Sundeep has worked as a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company for 7 years, where he specialized in the Healthcare and Development sectors. IN 2008, he left McKinsey to setup Swasth with the goal of building an eco-system that delivered high quality, affordable and accountable health services to the low income in India.

Sundeep graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 2001. Post that, he has undergone different programs to gain domain knowledge that is required to build a a health eco-system. He has completed a Diploma of Associateship in Insurance, 2 years of Law Studies, M.D. in Alternative Medicine, a Yoga Instructor Certificate and is a Certified Professional Coach from the International Coaching Federation. In 2019, Sundeep has been selected as a Bernard Lown Scholar by the Harvard School of Public Health.

Over the last 11 years, Sundeep and his team at Swasth have setup a network of 25+ Primary Health Care Centers across 2 cities (Mumbai and Ahmedabad) that deliver high quality and accountable healthcare services in family medicine and dentistry to the urban poor, reducing their out-of-pocket expenditure by 50%. He is now looking (1) to scale the Primary Health Care model and (2) to integrate the knowledge of Western medicine and Eastern sciences of well-being to develop a network of Community Based Wellness Center for urban poor focused on chronic diseases like Hypertension and Diabetes.