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Leena Nair (She/Her)

CEO

Pune, Maharashtra, India18 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over two decades of experience in startup operations.
  • Led large-scale transformations in healthtech and SaaS.
  • Expert in building scalable systems for startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Healthtech expert with a strong focus on startup scalability.

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Skills

Core Skills

GccSoftware As A Service (saas)Healthcare Information Technology (hit)Business Intelligence (bi)

Other Skills

EdtechE-Commerce ConsultingData AnalyticsProductizationHealthcare IndustryBusiness DevelopmentRecruitingGerman Language- C1 levelPerformance ManagementSLA ManagementStakeholder ManagementVendor ManagementProduction ModelsLeadershipProcess Improvement

About

Leena Nair is the Co-Founder and CEO of Black Panda, where she helps ambitious startups and growth-stage companies achieve sustainable and scalable success. With over two decades of experience leading startup operations and global capability centers (GCCs), she has built a career around turning new ideas into resilient, high-performing businesses. Before founding Black Panda, Leena led India operations for leading healthtech and SaaS organizations including Zocdoc and CureMD, where she spearheaded large-scale transformations in digital patient experience, provider operations, and strategic delivery. The idea for Black Panda emerged from Leena’s observation that hundreds of startups are registered in India every day, yet a majority struggle to survive beyond their early years. Her vision is to change that trajectory — by combining human-centred design thinking, AI-driven innovation, and execution excellence to create scalable systems that work. At Black Panda, Leena focuses on building bridges: enabling Indian talent and founders to compete globally, and helping international companies successfully enter and launch in India across industries such as healthcare, e-commerce, education, and finance. She believes prosperity is meaningful only when it creates lasting impact — for businesses, people, and the broader ecosystem.

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Black panda enterprises

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune · On-site

  • At Black Panda, we help ambitious startups and growth-stage companies achieve explosive and sustainable success.
  • We don't just craft strategies, we make them happen. We combine human centered design thinking with a holistic approach to build agile systems and processes that unlock your full potential.
  • Our Expertise:
  • C-Suite Guidance, On-Demand: Get strategic leadership and development from seasoned professionals, without the full-time cost through Black Panda Consulting
  • A Robust Leadership Bench, Foundation of Scalability: Build a smart leadership team that will have your back and help you scale your business through Black Panda Academy
  • Get Your Resources & Time Back: Access the skills you need, when you need them, with our flexible resource model. Forget about operational troubles through our Black Panda Managed Teams services
  • Ready to scale fearlessly? Let Black Panda be your secret weapon for achieving sustainable growth. Check out our website on https://blackpandaenterprises.com.
Healthcare Information Technology (HIT)GCCSoftware as a Service (SaaS)EdtechE-Commerce Consulting

Curemd

GM - India, & Head of Client Operations for Digital Patient Experience

Feb 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · India · Remote

  • About CureMD: CureMD is a 24-year-old global company made up of multiple business units including EHR, Autonomous Billing, Oncology, Public Health, Digital Patient Experience, etc., each with its own objectives and spanning 100s of products and features, individual performance criteria, and profitability requirements. We are in 4 locations with people working remotely and in hybrid models from many different cities. The India office is completely remote with people working from over a dozen cities.
  • Span of responsibilities as the GM: My responsibilities in this role span multiple areas of strategy and execution including leadership, people and HR, strategy at both org as well as department level, culture, engagement, budgeting, profitability, and infrastructure. I also directly head the Client Operations functions including Implementation, Customer Success, and Account Management. I also manage the BI function, globally.
  • Acting COO for Leap.Health (Digital Patient Experience Suite): As the personal primarily responsible for the execution of this business unit, I work closely with the CEO, VP of Strategy, and other business heads to develop the business strategy for Leap. I also am responsible for facilitating the building of the business unit’s OKRs, building top line metrics, documentation of strategy, planning and alignment at the exec and department heads level, and ensuring we are meeting our revenue targets as a company.
Business Intelligence (BI)Healthcare Information Technology (HIT)GCCData AnalyticsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)

Zocdoc

5 roles

Head of India Operations and Strategy

Promoted

Aug 2019Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • As the Head of India Operations and Strategy, I am responsible for building and driving a global strategy for
  • India that is aligned with the company goals and every individual department in the US. As the senior most
  • leader of our India office, I am responsible for the location’s vision, OKRs, budgeting, infrastructure,
  • engagement and culture.
  • Achievements:
  • India Vision and Strategy, Impact on Bottom Line: Created and implemented a 360-degree vision
  • for the Pune office and India location that has given the company exceptional leverage in scale
  • and cost especially during 2020 (Covid times). Over the last 8 to 9 years, the Pune/India office has
  • been responsible for saving the company more than 350 million USD, a significant amount for an
  • org, our size.
  • Top Line Impact: In the past 2 years the India Office has evolved to directly impacting the top line
  • for the company through projects in Sales, Product, and Automation that impact revenue of ~5
  • million USD and counting.
  • Culture and Engagement: The India office engagement in the last temperature check was 93%
  • compared to a company-wide 77%. Even in a virtual set up, our Diversity and Inclusion
  • temperature check score was again 90+ compared to the companywide 74%.
  • Automation Strategy: Built, got buy-in for and have in-process an automation strategy for all
  • projects sent to India. In the last few years, these projects have been responsible for ~10 million
  • USD in cost savings and counting.
  • Flexible Resourcing: Ideated and built a flexible resourcing plan providing versatile talent that can
  • be ramped up and down with ease as per business needs. This includes freelancers, consultants,
  • and FTEs that work 24*7 from home and office.
  • Leadership Bench: Built and scaled a world class leadership bench.
Business Intelligence (BI)Healthcare Information Technology (HIT)GCCData AnalyticsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)

Director, Provider Data Operations

Nov 2018Aug 2019 · 9 mos

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Director of Client Operations

Promoted

Aug 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Senior Manager - Data Operations

Promoted

Apr 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

Manager – Data Operations

Jul 2012Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

We can do anything good

Founder

Apr 2018Jun 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Imrb international

Deputy Production Manager - Charting Operations

Jan 2011Oct 2011 · 9 mos

Bny mellon

Team Leader- Asset Management

Jun 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · Pune

Mphasis

Team Leader - Customer Service & Cross Sales

Jan 2004May 2009 · 5 yrs 4 mos · India

Education

Indian School of Business

Executive Education — Product Management

Nov 2021Mar 2022

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Master of Arts — Economics

Jan 2010Jan 2012

SP College, Pune University

Bachelor of Arts - BA — Economics

Aug 2003Jan 2006

Goethe University Frankfurt

German

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