Krishna Ramkumar
Krishna Ramkumar is the Co-Founder and COO of TERN Group, the UK-based AI clinical workforce platform that is transforming international healthcare recruitment. His path to TERN stretches back to the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he first met his co-founder Avinav Nigam, and where he served as head of Techfest — then Asia's largest student technology festival — developing an early fluency in building large, complex operational systems and communities.
After IIT Bombay, Ramkumar pursued a career in strategy, operations, and social impact. He spent time at the Boston Consulting Group, gaining exposure to enterprise strategy across sectors and geographies. He went on to work at Nexus Venture Partners, one of India's leading venture capital firms, deepening his understanding of technology businesses and high-growth company building. He also co-founded Avanti Learning Centres, a social enterprise focused on improving access to quality education for economically disadvantaged students in India — a venture that spoke directly to his belief in using institutional systems to expand opportunity for those without it.
His subsequent roles at Urban Company, where he served as Vice President, and Loadshare, where he was Head of Operations, gave him direct operational leadership experience at scale in technology-enabled services businesses. This combination — strategic rigour from BCG, investment perspective from Nexus, operational depth from Urban Company and Loadshare — made him the natural co-founder for TERN's COO role when Nigam brought the idea to him in 2023.
At TERN, Ramkumar leads the day-to-day operational infrastructure that underpins the platform's ability to serve more than 650,000 healthcare professionals across six countries. His focus on building systems that are ethical, transparent, and scalable reflects both his BCG training and his earlier work in social enterprise — an unusual synthesis of commercial rigour and genuine commitment to the welfare of the people TERN serves.
