Leena Nair (She/Her) — CEO
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Healthtech expert with a strong focus on startup scalability.
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 18 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- Gcc
- Software As A Service (saas)
- Healthcare Information Technology (hit)
- Business Intelligence (bi)
Career Highlights
- Over two decades of experience in startup operations.
- Led large-scale transformations in healthtech and SaaS.
- Expert in building scalable systems for startups.
Work Experience
Black Panda Enterprises
Founder & Chief Executive Officer (2 yrs 8 mos)
CureMD
GM - India, & Head of Client Operations for Digital Patient Experience (1 yr 7 mos)
Zocdoc
Head of India Operations and Strategy (2 yrs 5 mos)
Director, Provider Data Operations (9 mos)
Director of Client Operations (1 yr 2 mos)
Senior Manager - Data Operations (1 yr 3 mos)
Manager – Data Operations (3 yrs 9 mos)
We Can Do Anything Good
Founder (5 yrs 2 mos)
IMRB International
Deputy Production Manager - Charting Operations (9 mos)
BNY Mellon
Team Leader- Asset Management (1 yr 6 mos)
Mphasis
Team Leader - Customer Service & Cross Sales (5 yrs 4 mos)
Education
Executive Education at Indian School of Business
Master of Arts at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor of Arts - BA at SP College, Pune University
German at Goethe University Frankfurt