Ashish Bharat Ram

Co-founder

Co-founder of India Mental Health Alliance (IMHA)

Ashish Bharat Ram is the co-founder of India Mental Health Alliance (IMHA) (2011)[1], an Indian non-profit working on mental health from Gurugram.

Ashish Bharat Ram is an Indian industrialist who is chairman and managing director of SRF Limited. With Vasvi Bharat Ram he founded the India Mental Health Alliance (IMHA), a section 8 non-profit set up in late 2023 in partnership with the mental health organisations Amaha and Children First, and he is one of its founding trustees.

IMHA is a cross-sector alliance intended to strengthen India's mental health system by convening organisations, building the capacity of practitioners and encouraging collaboration. In its first year it reported reaching 215 member organisations and more than 2,000 mental health professionals, and it has since grown beyond 300 member organisations across 30 states and union territories.

Early life and education

He holds a degree in economics from Hindu College, University of Delhi, and an MBA in corporate strategy from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

Career

Before joining the family business he worked with American Express Bank in India and with Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan.

He became managing director of SRF Limited in 2007 and chairman and managing director in 2022. The company operates in fluorochemicals, speciality chemicals, packaging films, technical textiles and coated and laminated fabrics, with plants in India, Thailand, South Africa and Hungary.

He has served as regional chair for South Asia of the Young Presidents' Organization and is active in the Confederation of Indian Industry. He is a non-executive director of Bharat Forge Limited.

Recognition

Business Today named him India's Best CEO in the emerging and mid-sized companies category in 2020 and again in 2023. In 2020 he received the Transformational Leader Award in the mid-cap category from the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability.[2][3][4][5]

India Mental Health Alliance (IMHA)

India Mental Health Alliance is a Gurugram-based Section 8 nonprofit founded by Vasvi and Ashish Bharat Ram, bringing together 350+ member organisations across 33 states to curate knowledge, build practitioner capacity and shift mental healthcare from curative to preventive, integrating it with education, nutrition and livelihoods programmes.

India Mental Health Alliance (IMHA) reports the following, on its own site: