Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what he lives for. M Ramadoss is one who loves challenges. In fact, he is a dreamer, and his dream is to insure everybody's life for a secure tomorrow. A strong dedication to corporate ethics is the key to success for this workaholic. For him the clients are god and work is worship. With his vast ocean of experience in the realm of insurance sector, M Ramadoss has been steering the Oriental Insurance Company Limited (OICL) into the path of profits. This experienced insurance officer took charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of the Oriental Insurance Company Limited (OICL) on March 1, 2005.

Before joining the OICL, Ramadoss had served as the General Manager, New India Assurance Company Ltd. He jumped into the Insurance Industry way back in 1976 as a class one officer of the New Indian Insurance Company Limited, and since then there was no looking back for him and Ramadoss has been making strong strides in his field. He has worked in different parts of India and abroad. Ramdoss was a fellow of Insurance Institute of India and Associate of Chartered Insurance Institute of UK. He firmly believes that he would be able to maintain the highest standard of ethics and corporate integrity with his strong sense of dedication, sheer honesty and strict discipline.

Immediately after taking over as the new Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of the Oriental Insurance Company Ltd (OICL), Ramadoss had shed stereotype images of insurance companies in the new scenario of globalisation. His vision is to make the Oriental Insurance Company Ltd a 'demanding employer and more customer-friendly.' The tough taskmaster has taken up the agenda of preventing an erosion of profitability and falling premiums of the OICL. He knows it's a tough phase when customers are being lured by private sector insurance companies. He is firm to bring the public sector insurers back.

His goal is to make OICL the 'one-stop-shop' for all insurance requirements of the customers. Sending a strong message down the hierarchy, he has made it amply clear that wage increases could no longer be assumed as in the past. They were also advised by this tough taskmaster to focus only on profits instead of chasing volumes. In fact, the private sector has been poaching on these categories of customers along with the PSU employees. "Wage revisions and promotions have to be earned by performance, and not assumed to be periodical exercises" is his crystal clear message to his employees.