Gopal Chopra

Dr. Chopra MD, Dip. Anatomy, FRACS, MBA is an experienced neurosurgeon and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic advisory, investment, clinical research and operational experience in the healthcare sector across the medical device, diagnostic, services, information technology and pharma verticals. Dr. Chopra has worked with early stage as well as large cap private and public companies in developed and emerging markets and is is the co-founder, managing partner of TCG, an executive accelerator focused on cutting edge smart and personalized medical and wellness technologies. Dr. Chopra was the co-founder and Chairman of pingmd, Inc., a New York City-based mobile healthcare solutions company designed to advance communications with efficient telecare between patients, physicians and their colleagues, built on smart self-reported data sets from patients. He was a senior investment banker in the healthcare group of Lazard Frères, focused on medical devices and diagnostics and advised on strategic deals across mergers & acquisitions, IPOs, PIPEs and private financings. Dr. Chopra has also worked at Boston Scientific Corporation in business development and co-founded several medical device companies where he served in a business development role, including Hansen Medical. Dr. Chopra has practiced as a neurosurgeon in Australia, India, Canada and the U.S., and has held faculty appointments at Stanford University, Duke University and the University of Melbourne. As an Associate Professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in North Carolina. He has been an invited expert for his work in Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Robotics and Neurocognition. Dr. Chopra obtained his medical degree from the University of Melbourne in Australia, his degree in neurosurgery from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and his master’s degree in business from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.