Mridula is the co-founder of Peppy (www.peppy.health). She is passionate about making healthcare more affordable and accessible. Although she has spent her career in healthcare, Mridula is an engineer by training, studying first at Cambridge, before spending several years at MIT on a highly selective joint PhD/ MBA programme. She was previously a senior engagement manager at McKinsey and a business unit head at Sandoz (the generic pharmaceutical division of Novartis) where she delighted in disturbing the established markets of originator pharma companies. She lives in West London with her husband and two young children.