U K Ananthapadmanabhan is the Founder and CEO of Tenxhealth Technologies Pvt Ltd ,Coimbatore .Tenxhealth Technologies is a healthtech startup actively involved in designing, building and operating Lean Six sigma healthcare facilities using Hyper automation technologies . He is also the Digital transformation and innovation Consultant for hospitals and manufacturing organizations . Planning and designing healthcare information technology solutions with emerging technologies like internet of things (IoT),cloud computing, Low code software ,artificial intelligence and machine learning has also been his forte

He is actively involved in teaching, training, and research in the field of hospital management and is a visiting faculty in many postgraduate institutes and universities. He is also one of the senior most professional hospital administrators in the country. During his long career of three decades in the healthcare industry he has held various top leadership positions in large hospitals like Apollo hospitals, Kovai medical center and hospital, Continental hospital, Meenakshi mission hospital, Sakra hospitals, Kauvery hospitals , Rainbow children’s hospital, and MGM Healthcare.

He is a graduate in electrical and electronics (1978) with post graduate qualification in business management and hospital administration (LIBA). As a part of his CSR activity, he is running a campaign called “Handwash India campaign” for past four years for teaching and training of poor children in India on the importance of handwashing with soap