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Ramesh Ramachandra is recognised as “one of the most influential women in
Asia” (Asiaweek, July 2001).
Ms Ramachandra is a director of Business Breakthrough Technology Pte Ltd, a
Singapore-based consulting firm that designs and implements large-scale initiatives to enhance organisational performance. In this role, she manages the operations and expansion of consulting initiatives and blue-chip clientele in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.
Her expertise is in consulting with business leaders to define and seize growth opportunities, rapidly improve performance, and attain specific, measurable business results. She also regularly consults and coaches senior executives and board members. Her other focus is providing customised coaching to family-owned businesses where she facilitates and manages conflicts, succession and inheritance issues.
Prior to running Business Breakthrough Technology, Ms Ramachandra founded and ran several businesses in the Asia Pacific region. She has worked in the Asia Pacific, Australia and the US in the education, business consulting, information technology, shipping, garment and financial industries in the private and public sector. She has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations on enterprise development projects involving women in Pyongyang, North Korea.
She is passionate about mainstreaming the role of women in decision-making, power structures and entrepreneurial activities. She is involved at grassroots and board levels with organisations including the Development of Economy for Women, DEW Credit Co-operative Ltd, Singapore National Co-operative Federation, Netball Singapore and the Singapore Council of Women's Organizations.
Ms Ramachandra is both author and subject: she is profiled as a woman 'barrier breaker' (Barrier Breakers - Women in Singapore) and was profiled as part of the ‘emerging breed of entrepreneurs in Singapore’ (Singapore Savy – 50 Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow). She also featured in the 2002 Commonwealth businesswomen: trade matters, best practices and success stories. Her publications include Big Jump into Entrepreneurship (2003) and handbooks about enterprise development in North Korea.
She holds an MBA from Monash University and New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Born in Sri Lanka, and educated in Singapore, Australia and the US, she lives in Singapore with her teenage daughter.
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