Prabhu U

Dr A. Velumani, is a scientist turned entrepreneur. He is the Chief Executive Officer and creator of Thyrocare, World’s largest thyroid testing laboratory. A visionary, in the field of Clinical Biochemistry – worked on Volume more than the profit and has established a unique business model in the world. He understood the limitations of quantitative immunoassays for laboratories which do not have volume has worked on a ‘Centralised Processing laboratory” for 1000s of laboratories in the country. Though he was a mathematician in early academic life, he has done his Masters in Thyroid Biochemistry and PhD in Thyroid Pathophysiology. Dr. A Velumani, in 1995 understood that the so called comfort zone of being a “Government Officer” could be a danger zone, quit it without any reluctance and set up this unique and disruptive business. Being born and brought up in a poor farmers family, the man had himself experienced the dark perils of poverty, which fueled his desire to start an affordable enterprise for the vast populace.