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Ariel Kaye Founder& CEO Parachute Home

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She is one of the very few entrepreneurs who went solo 
until her company had achieved success in finally getting some 
investment in her idea. In fact, Ariel Kaye recruited the first employee
 of the ecommerce start-up that has already created a stir in the 
bedding essentials sector and expanding with each passing day. She went</div>
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<strong>Education</strong></div>
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Daughter
 of a school-teacher, Ariel Kaye completed a masters in media studies 
(focus on social media marketing, digital media, and video production) 
in 2010 from The New School.Before that she completed her bachelors of 
arts (focus on media, power, and persuasion) in 2006 from the Gallatin 
School, New York University, where she was Dean Scholar and graduated 
with honors (Magna Cum Laude).</div>
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<strong>The decade-long professional career in New York</strong></div>
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She
 delved into the field of advertising – branding – to be specific, and 
work in that field for around 10 years before the bug of 
entrepreneurship bit her. It was a serendipitous occurring that changed 
what seemed like a content enough career in the field of marketing with 
random indulgence into design and home décor.  She started her career 
with a communications company called ‘i33 Communications LLC’ as 
executive assistant to the President/CEO.</div>
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Much as it may seem like
 baptism by fire, as being the CEO’s executive is no easy job, but her 7
 months in that role gave her enough perspective very early in life 
about corporate culture, business handling, and the nitty-gritty of 
entrepreneurship.</div>
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Then she followed it up with a job stint of 5 
months with a company called Goldin Solutions as a Senior Digital 
Analyst. Her next job allowed her to ease into a managerial position and
 see the functioning of business from up close. She served as manager 
(Account Planning) for the company called ‘Digitas’ in which role she 
lasted for a close to 3 years.</div>
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By the time she was into her 
promoted position (with Digitas) as Associate Director (Account 
Planning), she had pretty much deliberated upon what’s to be made of her
 life after that particular stint. It was getting into entrepreneurship 
but doing something different – something that would make a difference 
to people lives; what it was she would not know or have an inkling of 
until she went to Italy for six months for studies after moving from 
Digitas in February 2013.</div>
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<strong>The spark</strong></div>
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There 
were several sparks that lead Ariel Kaye to jump into the 
entrepreneurial world. First and foremost was her 6-month stay in Italy 
which she had visited during her sophomore year; second was her interest
 in the home décor and interior designing (she had a design blog); and 
finally her extensive (almost 10 years) experience in the field of 
advertising and branding where she got to understand the public’s 
new-found propensity to look for quality, craftsmanship, and social 
responsibility in products they bought.</div>
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With that as the 
background, she started research on what clicks with customers when they
 buy bedding products and was surprised to find that not many know the 
brand that made them happy in terms of quality bed linen. Having been a 
brander, she knew the value brand loyalty can have for a business and 
thus made up her mind to create a brand that focused on the bedroom 
aspect of the home which would not only put to use her knowledge, 
education, and experience but also serve a hereto un-catered to segment 
in the home furnishing industry.</div>
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<strong>Initial struggle with funding & the launch</strong></div>
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By
 end-2013 she drawn the road-map with a detailed plan of actions and a 
sound business plan. But that wasn’t as is as it sounds – she had to put
 in an immense amount of hard-work and thought to get there. First up 
she visited the local vendors providing bedding to vindicate her stance 
of them neglecting the quality aspect of it. Then she visited Europe 
where she went to about 15 factories, mostly in Italy, where she was 
introduced to an altogether different approach to bedding essentials 
from manufacturers. Based on that approach plus the fact that she had 
made their acquaintance, she developed a business plan built around a 
direct-approach revenue model.</div>
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She met many potential investors 
who politely tell her that it’s a good plan but you haven’t started and 
done enough to justify our investment – perhaps they were correct in 
their assessment. Here was someone who was pitching to sell an idea 
venture capitalists – however novel and promising it may been – without 
even having a single inventory on the ecommerce platform. They wouldn’t 
say not directly, so that added to the distress even more as it made her
 as anxious as one can grow under such circumstances.</div>
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Being a 
marketing person – she put her PR to great use and joined a Santa-Monica
 based accelerator called, Launchpad LA. This gave her the opportunity 
to interact with many rising entrepreneurs as also the chance to work 
with them and understand how they did it all when it came to sourcing 
funding et al.</div>
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Some of them pitched in with some money that 
wouldn’t be enough, so she borrowed a loan from her parents to 
kick-start Parachute in January 2014 with an assortment of bedding 
essentials. Viola! It was sold out of inventory in just a couple weeks –
 all because Kaye and team had connected with people as well as provided
 an experience they’d never known or experienced.</div>
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<strong>The strategy& guiding principles</strong></div>
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Next
 came the question of how well she would devise her business and 
operational strategies. As before, her brief experience with Launchpad 
and her branding experience helped her come up with people-centric 
strategies. She made sure that Parachute’s product and planning teams 
worked directly with manufacturers so that it is able to maintain 
control, offer the often-so-missing transparency and, above all,be able 
to provide the best products at the best of prices. This has been the 
back-bone from a differentiation point of view.</div>
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Not only that, 
Kaye has set in place some guiding principles that drive every product 
offerings through Parachute.The most crucial of them is attaching utmost
 importance to ‘Quality.’</div>
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Not only that, Kaye and her team have 
been able to deliver premium products at accessible pricing by smartly 
cutting out the middleman and going direct to consumer, while also 
working directly with its manufacturers in order to create and develop 
superior quality products, which the customer can enjoy quickly through 
the last-mile delivery that Parachute offers.</div>
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<strong>Investor confidence…trickling in</strong></div>
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Such
 is the state of affairs that almost always so far, Parachute has run 
out of inventory increasing the GMV to unexpected levels. In fact, it 
has been struggling to keep pace with the demands from customers. They 
beat their monthly projections in two weeks flat. Thus exuding much 
confidence for the investors to put in their money after seeing the 
results. With the much-needed capital infused into the business, Kaye 
expanded the team in order to better coordinate with manufacturers and 
acquired the additional inventory to meet the ever-increasing demand.</div>
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Parachute recently finished a round of VC funding reported to the tune of $10M.</div>
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<strong>Growth</strong></div>
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As
 can be expected, Parachute was so successful in getting established as a
 brand that it has seen a 4x year-to-year growth rate and 40% repeat 
customer rate – which is amazing given the general market trend where 
such rate as well as loyalty are hard to come by. The company plans to 
continue to grow next year through expanded collections in home 
essentials and bathroom, and eventually for other rooms of the house.</div>
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Not bad for a solo beginner.</div>
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<strong>Her advice to founders…</strong></div>
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“Sit
 up straighter. Look into people’s eyes longer. And bring the intensity 
you feel inside, out. Let them know that you’re a fighter. A person with
 persistence, confidence, and a vision. If they want to be here and go 
with you, do it. If not, move on and find the person who is.”</div>
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<tr><td align="center" valign="middle" width="2%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle" width="98%">'“Building  a brand is a process, and I think some people try to do it too fast and grow  too big.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">I
  wanted to establish a brand that enabled people to start and end their
 day,  feeling their very best. It was important to me not only to offer
 premium  quality and accessible pricing but also comfort and sound 
sleep.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“We  want to be where all of our customers are. We’re dreaming big.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“Always  be persistent, but also be patient.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">"My
  aesthetic is equally inspired by the landscape of the desert and the 
vibe of my  Venice surroundings.This means earth tones and neutrals. 
From a style standpoint,  I’ve always been drawn to basics. "</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“It’s  hard to make transformative changes. Working on little things adds up to the  big things.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“We  started by rethinking the basics of bedding...now we’re revolutionizing home  textiles.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“I
  couldn’t find a single brand that was high quality, beautiful, 
affordable and  convenient to purchase. They say if you can’t find it, 
create it. And so I did.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“Building
  culture and making sure my employees are happy is what keeps me up at 
night.  It’s what this whole thing is all about; creating a place where 
people love to  work.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“You’re  only as productive at work as you are happy.”</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">“You  spend so much time at work that if you’re not having fun and enjoying it what’s  the point?”</td></tr>
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Shashank ND Co-Founder & CEO Practo Technologies

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Shashank ND,the founder and CEO of Practo Technologies, 
India’s leading healthcare management app devised the application quotes
 by accident it is strange how certain incidents of occurrences in our 
lives figured that Spark or thought of innovation to come up with 
something really new and impactful for the society as a whole. It so 
happened that Shashank father had to undergo funny replacement surgery 
back in 2008 but Shashank wanted to get second opinion from a surgeon in
 the United States.<br />
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However there were no medical records online 
that could be shared with the US surgeon. This one incident that 
happened with Shashank sparked a new thought basically a view that how 
many others in this country faced this problem of not having online 
medical records. Then he started working on figuring out the solution 
for this and he realized it could be an online repository or an app or 
something which the doctors had to help themselves with and not be 
binding on the patience to do it because it would then be that much more
 cumbersome. So he came up with this idea and floated it around a few 
doctors in Bangalore the city where he was born and brought up.  His 
takeaway from his father situation was that the world could use was 
digitized, accessible and shareable medical records.<br />
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But most of 
them did not approve of the idea saying it is not a plausible one. 
Shashank continued with his quest nonetheless. To make good of the idea,
 he needed hands for which he sought involvement from his college mate 
Abhinav Lal. When Shashank sounded him out, Lal was reluctant initially 
as they were still in the 3rd year of graduation and as also his parents
 did not approve of this proposition.<br />
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<strong>Partner & the initial team</strong><br />
However
 Shashank cajoled and convinced him to eventually join the effort of 
creating something very new, exciting, and useful for the society. They 
started collected few lakhs from and started off coding at Shashank’s 
grand-parents’ house (unused) in JP Nagar (Bengaluru).But something like
 that required additional hands; so they invited coders who shared their
 vision, passion, and also had the ability to build applications on 
cloud. Within just a few days they were about 10 of them working to get 
this Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform ready – they initially called
 in turb-doc.in- which they did in just a matter of 14 days from 
starting coding.<br />
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<strong>Dissemination, adoption, and the early challenges</strong><br />
Monetization
 wasn’t on their minds when they started out, as the primary motive 
behind creating this platform was to serve the community, make sure they
 had easy access to healthcare information - all of it that they ever 
wanted to have before taking an informed decision.<br />
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For that to 
happen, it was the medicos i.e. the doctors and practitioners who needed
 to be equipped with the application – a solution that can store all the
 medical records on the history of patient’s medication, reports in 
anything and everything that related to the patients so this was a hard 
sell for the young engineers as the doctors whom they met were not so 
optimistic about something like that.<br />
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Then there were other 
operational and business challenges as well in the adoption of the 
platforms. The biggest one of them was that internet was in its nascent 
stages back then besides the fact that doctors were not very inclined on
 going to the web, much less about using smart phones in delivering care
 to their patients and recording the proceedings.<br />
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Slowly and 
surely, never pegged back by any limitation whatsoever and fueled by 
their desire and commitment towards the society, Shashank and Lal and 
the team of 10 geeks went about their job creating applications that 
helped the businesses - that is the medical centers, hospitals, doctors,
 diagnostic centers and, importantly, the patients. The software which 
was built to address the problems of patients in India, helped doctors 
upload and store medical records and prescriptions and manage billing 
and appointment details.<br />
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<strong>Investor interest</strong><br />
When
 they started off they never ever thought of how or why somebody should 
invest into their business. All they were worried about was how to make 
people use their platform effectively. They sold the products to doctors
 only on a referral basis which lead the business to just grow 
organically and they did not invest any major capital into it. It went 
on like that for a couple of years until 2010/11 when the Managing 
Director of a venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, ever so 
inadvertently, stumbles upon this service.<br />
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The gentleman had had a
 shoulder surgery and through the course of his post-surgical 
medication, realized that there was this app called Practo that was 
called into action a great number of times all through his recovery. 
This, kind of, amazed him a great deal and that very moment he could see
 that here was an application platform as a service that held great 
promise for both his venture capital firm as well as the community at 
large.<br />
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But he didn’t jump in with an investment blindly; he waited
 for another few months before finally getting in with a capital of 
$500,000 which was which was a very small investment compared with 
anything else the company had invested in its history.<br />
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With such 
capital infused into the business, the engineer duo went ahead expanding
 their areas of service first expanding to Chennai and then subsequently
 to other major cities of the country such as Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, 
Kolkata, and Pune.<br />
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The team that had started with 10 people in a 
matter of 5 years grew to 500 and then the subsequent year and a half 
later grew to more than 2000. Practo is today India’s leading healthcare
 management platform besides being the world’s fourth largest subscribed
 health management application, next only to leading competitors such as
 Zocdoc and Guahao. The app was voted the best app at Google Think 
Mobile Conference 2014.<br />
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<strong>Where it stands today</strong><br />
Thanks
 to Shashank and his team’s relentless zest to serve humanity, the 
company is today valued at USD $500 million with further rounds of 
investment flowing in – in fact, chasing it from various quarters.  
Apart from Sequoia Capital which increased its investment, Practo 
secured funding from others funders that included Matrix Partners, 
Tencent Holdings, Sofina, Google Capital and Yuri Milner taking the 
total investment from various rounds of funding to about USD$125 
million.<br />
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Not only that, the company’s operations areas of business
 today has2,500 employees working across 35 cities and six countries 
serving in more than 100 cities across 8 countries, with was about 
230000 medical practitioners registered for IT services serving a 
patient base of about 4 million visitors every month. Experts and 
industry-watchers opine that Practo’s advantage over its competition 
lies in the fact that it is present in the B2B (management software) and
 B2C (doctor discovery platform) space, covering both ends of the health
 care ecosystem. Shashank says it has become the world’s largest 
appointment-booking platform with over 40 million appointments annually.
 It is present in four other countries too—Singapore, Brazil, Indonesia 
and Philippines—and is exploring entering newer markets in Latin 
America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.<br />
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The quest to 
continuously improve and conform to their founding ideals, Shashank 
makes sure the company is still run like a start-up – which is hard to 
achieve after 7 years into operations and a valuation of half a billion 
dollars. So, what he says is, along with organic growth, they have 
embarked on an acquisition path that has seen them equip themselves with
 start-ups with complementary capabilities that add variety to their 
offerings – thus, helping them to function as start-ups.  The app is now
 also available in 10 vernacular language of the country so as to 
support seamless communication for even non-English speaking patients.<br />
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<strong>Education and family</strong><br />
Born
 to erudite parents who were employed with government departments and 
there was a set pattern for his life that they wanted him to achieve – 
so well in school, pursue engineering, and then get a good job. All of 
which he did: had his schooling from the National Public School, 
Rajajinagar and then completed his engineering from the National 
Institute of Technology (NIT), Surathkal, Karnataka.<br />
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<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“When we get more capital, when we add more people, it is multiplicative and not divisive in anyway.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“Like
 you have your professional life on LinkedIn, social life on Facebook, 
we aim to be the go to platform for your health and well-being.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“If
 someone has stomach pain, we are helping that person go to the right 
doctor nearby. A common man doesn’t understand medical jargon,”says 
Shashank. “We are trying to increase the trust between doctors, 
hospitals and patients by making the process transparent and eliminating
 the barrier of lack of information. We want to help consumers make a 
more informed decision.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />"We
 don’t follow any model or company. Getting influenced and starting 
something is not sustainable in the long run,” he says. " Original ideas
 are always ahead in the race.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“Under
 Practo, we have different business units and many of them are turning 
profitable this year. We as a company will turn profitable mid of next 
year [2017], including our international operations. The software 
business is already running in a profitable manner.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“The idea of Practo didn’t come from anywhere else. It originated from India and the problems we face.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“Absence of digital health records is a common problem all over the world.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“The long-term plan is to help improve human longevity by simplifying health care.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
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Kavery Kalanithi Maran Managing Director Sun TV Network Limited

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Coorg-born Kaveri Kalanithi, of Sun TV Networks Ltd., is 
India’s highest paid corporate executive. The CEO of Sun TV Network 
Limited, Kavery Kalanithi is actively involved in its business and 
day-to-day operations.<br />
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<strong>Education</strong><br />
Kavery 
Kalanithi holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the prestigious 
University of Madras, Chennai (formerly known as Madras). Her strong 
leadership skills and will power are the mantra behind the unprecedented
 success of the SUN group.<br />
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<strong>As a CEO of Sun TV Network</strong><br />
Kavery
 not only monitors the viewer feedback with regard to the programs, but 
also decides the content mix for airing on the various channels. Her 
inclination towards philanthropic activities has helped her become a 
part of the on board trustees of SUN foundation, which is a public 
charitable organization and she also supervises its daily operations. 
Further, she is the Non-executive Chairman of Spice Jet Limited.<br />
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Analyzing
 the media and entertainment industry, the firm said the digitalization 
drive by the Centre along with addressability for cable television would
 help Sun TV Network. Being the largest regional TV network and one of 
the key players in the DTH space, it is expected that the new stream of 
revenue for the firm arising from the increased DTH subscriber base in 
south India would maintain a positive momentum in the coming years.<br />
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<strong>Highest paid business women</strong><br />
According
 to Sun TV's annual report, the company's founder and executive chairman
 Maran and his wife Kavery Kalanithi, who is an executive director in 
the company, earned salaries of Rs 13.14 crore each during the year 
2015-16. While the salary level remained flat, ex-gratia/bonus rose to 
Rs 58.33 crore from Rs 48.13 crore for Maran and to Rs 58.32 crore from 
Rs 48.12 crore in Kavery's case. While Kalanithi Maran is the chairman 
and managing director of Asia’s largest TV network, Kaveri Kalanithi is 
the executive director of the company.  They took home a salary of 
Rs.122 crore (Rs.61 crore each) in the year ended 31 March.<br />
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Kavery
 Kalanithi made it to the headlines of every daily, when her annual pay 
package declined from whopping Rs. 72 crore declined to Rs. 57 crores in
 2012 as an effect on recession. But, she is still the highest paid 
Indian business Woman, followed by Ms. Urvi A. Piramal, Chairperson of 
Peninsula Land with an annual pay package of Rs.7.3 crores.<br />
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<strong>Business Entities</strong><br />
Sun Network Offers 33 Television Channels in Four Indian Languages.<br />
Sun Direct DTH - Direct to Home broadcasting Service.<br />
Suryan FM - Tamil Radio.<br />
Red FM - MultiLingual Indian Radio.<br />
Sun Pictures - Tamil Movie Production house.<br />
Dinakaran - Tamil daily news paper.<br />
Tamil Murasu - Tamil evening news paper.<br />
Malai Murasu - Tamil evening news paper.<br />
Kunkumam, Muthaaram, Vannathirai, Kunguma Chimizh, Kungumam Thozhi, Aanmigam Palan - Six Tamil magazines.<br />
Sumangali Cable Vision (SCV) - Multi System Operators (MSO).<br />
Sun 18 - to distribute its channels through cable, DTH, IPTV, HITS and MMDS.<br />
Sun Risers - Hyderabad in IPL.<br />
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<strong>Family</strong><br />
Kaveri
 is the daughter of the late Jammada A. Belliappa (Bolli) and Neena, 
hailing from Kaikery near Gonikoppal in Coorg. Belliappa was an 
insurance executive based at Chennai, where Kaveri met Kalanithi at a 
friend’s place and got married in 1991.  Also, she has been blessed 
daughter Kavya Maran (born 1992) who wishes to take her father’s 
business to a greater height of success.<br />
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Kavery Kalanithi is 
married to the Indian Media baron Maran Kalanithi, who is the son of 
Former Union Minister of Commerce, Sh. Murasoli Maran since 1991. 
Kalanithi is an Indian media baron who is the chairman and managing 
director of Sun Group. He owns television channels, newspapers, 
weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH services and a movie production house. 
He also held a major share in the Indian airline Spice Jet from 2010 to 
2015. He is also the heir to a very powerful political member of the 
country’s polity. His father is the former Union Minister of Commerce, 
Murasoli Maran. He is the grand nephew of M Karunanidhi, the Chief 
Minister of Tamil Nadu. He was initially the owner of Spice Jet, which 
after undergoing through a series of losses, was sold to one of its 
former owner. Presently he holds the position of a Director and Convener
 of the gigantic Sun TV Network, which is enjoying a blooming and 
prosperous period.<br />
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<strong>Affiliations</strong></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Mrs.  Kavery Kalanithi Maran served as the Managing Director at Sun TV Network  Limited since April 20, 2012.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Mrs.
  Maran served as the Chairman at SpiceJet Limited since November 2010 
and served  as its Non-Executive Director since November 15, 2010 until 
January 29, 2015.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">She  has been an Executive Director of Sun TV Network Ltd since April 20, 2012.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Mrs.
 Maran serves as a Director of Kal Radio Limited, South Asia FM Limited,
 Udaya FM Pvt. Ltd, Kungumam Publications Pvt. Ltd, Kungumam Nithiyagam 
Pvt. Ltd, Kal Investments (Madras) Pvt. Ltd, Kal Comm Pvt. Ltd, Sun 
Direct TV Pvt. Ltd, Kal Publications Pvt. Ltd, Kal Media Services 
Private Limited, Kal Holdings Private Limited and Sun Business Solutions
 Private Limited.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Mrs.  Kaveri served as a Director of Kal Airways Private Limited until November 21,  2012.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Mrs. Kaveri served as a Director of Sun TV Network Limited from June 16, 2005 to April 20, 2012.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Mrs.
  Kaveri  was also appointed as the director on Board of the company 
with  effect from Nov. 15, 2010 and is also the on Board director of Sun
 TV limited  Network, South Asia FM limited, Kal Radio Limited, Udaya FM
 limited, Kungumam  Publications Private limited,Kungumam  Nithiyagam 
Private Limited, Kal Investments, Kal Comm Private limited, Sun  Direct 
private limited, Kal publications Pvt Ltd, Kal Airways Pvt Ltd, Kal  
Media Services Pvt Ltd, KAl Holdings Pvt Ltd and Sun business solutions 
Pvt.  Ltd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Mrs.
  Kaveri is an active committee member of Share Transfer and 
Transmission  Committee of Sun TV Network Limited, the Audit Committee 
of South Asia FM Ltd  and Audit and Remuneration committee of Kal Radio 
Limited.</td></tr>
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<strong>Other Affiliations</strong></div>
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<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">University  of Madras</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">SpiceJet  Limited</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Kal  Airways Private Limited</td></tr>
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<strong>Awards</strong></div>
</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Indian  Televison Academy award for the best Tamil TV Channel for the year 2001 - Sun  TV.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Indian  Televison Academy award for the best Malayalam TV Channel for the year 2001 -  Surya TV.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Indian  Televison Academy award for the best Kannada TV Channel for the year 2001 -  Udaya TV.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">Indian  Televison Academy award for the best Telugu TV Channel for the year 2001 -  Gemini TV.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="15" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/nai_img2.png" width="15" /></td><td align="left" style="font-size: 12px;" valign="middle">India’s  highest paid corporate executives in India.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="left" colspan="2" height="35" valign="middle"><span style="color: #a6201f; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: left;">Quotes</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“I  don't believe in industry's perception; I believe in creating trends.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“I
  strongly believe that if you have affordable pricing, you can do mass 
 transportation in India, with infrastructure and new airports also 
coming up.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“India
  is witnessing substantial growth, and predominant growth is expected 
from  cities and industrial towns which remain underserved.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />"Whatever  business I do, I am an active player."<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" valign="top" width="4%"> </td><td style="font-size: 12px;" width="96%"><img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq_icn.png" width="10" />“Worldwide,
  if you see, low-cost carriers are the ones doing well - RyanAir or 
EasyJet or  SouthWest in the U.S. They are the ones who escaped the 
recession.”<img alt="" class="soc-quotes" height="10" src="https://www.wisdomjobs.com/spark_images/fq2_icn.png" width="10" /></td></tr>
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