AKHIL SAKLECHA

Partner @Artiman (USA)

Akhil Saklecha focuses on early-stage investments with an interest towards medical technology. As a Partner at Artiman,
he has led investments in CellMax Life, DMS Networks, HomeUnion and Slive.
Akhil has over 20+ years of experience in medicine and healthcare management. Prior to joining Artiman in 2010, Akhil
was Medical Director of a 750 bed hospital's regional transfer program. Prior to that position, he was President and CEO of
Canton Aultman Emergency Physicians, a professional services firm that provides physicians, mid-level providers, and
coding expertise to multiple hospitals and urgent care centers. He was also Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Aultman
Hospital, a large trauma, cardiac, and stroke center seeing nearly 90,000 patients annually. In this same time period, Akhil
has served at the local, state, and national levels within emergency medicine, healthcare quality, information technology,
managed care, and emergency medical services.
He is an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and continues
to practice on a part time basis at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose where he remains connected to clinical medicine,
patients, and physicians.
Akhil graduated from the combined B.S./M.D. program at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He
completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Summa Health System. He is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine
and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Medicine. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.