Sujatha Ramanujan is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with 25 years of experience in Clinical Devices and in Consumer Electronics. Sujatha has started, built and grown three start-up businesses in cardiac surgical equipment, optical communications and nanomaterials. As CTO and Product Line Manager of Mammography CAD and Pediatric Businesses within Kodak and Carestream, her team developed and launched clinical equipment and Clinical IT on every continent. Sujatha has held scientific, technical leadership and laboratory head positions in Chrysler Corporation, GE, Kodak, Carestream and Intrinsiq Materials. She holds 28 issued U.S. patents. As a corporate investor for Kodak and later working with regional investment councils, she guides start-ups, provides M&A strategies to growing businesses and vets technologies for investors. She has served on investment advisories in the U.S., Canada and Israel.

Sujatha holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and is an Executive Board Member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She serves as a Director at Large on the Optica Board of Directors (2019-2021), chair of the Awards Council (2020-2021) and member of the Executive Council (2020-2021).