Kunal Jain
Founding Chairman & Director
(A Start-up evangelist, philanthropist and an established healthcare technology innovator and entrepreneur)
Kunal has spent over two decades as an US Healthcare Industry entrepreneur, a start-up mentor, and a Venture Capitalist and investment advisor. He brings significant experience in creating new businesses in India and USA.
Kunal moved to US in 2003 to fulfill his quest for gaining success by creating a disruption in the US healthcare industry. He challenged the status quo of things to innovate state-of-art systems, practices and emerged as one of the most successful healthcare tech entrepreneurs in US. His professional experience spanning over 15 years taught him how to meet his business challenges with optimism, common sense and creativity along the way.
Kunal is a Founder and Chairman of TIE Tampa, where he co-chairs the Entrepreneur Acceleration Programme. He is also on the Board of Advisory in Center for Entrepreneurship programme at University of South Florida. Kunal is a regular speaker at various Industry forums & B-schools. He takes active interest in grooming future entrepreneurs and business students in US and India. He frequently writes on entrepreneurship, innovation and emerging businesses.
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Kunal was born and raised in India. His deep involvement in philanthropy is an inspiration from his father Shri Kaushal Kishore Jain who is a renowned social worker, educationalist and a philanthropist. He donates part of his earnings to several charity organizations in US and India. To further his philanthropic work in India, he founded Kaushalam Foundation which envisions creating and sustaining a holistic eco-system for building India through skilling India. Full Profile: http://kunaljain.com/
Kunal’s Entrepreneurial Journey
Smt. Santosh Jain
Founder, Mentor and Director
Santosh Jain has over 35 years of experience working with several nonprofit organizations in the areas of women empowerment, enhancing rural livelihoods and in the field of education. She was involved in several philanthropic activities along with her husband Late Shri. Kaushal Kishore Jain and significantly contributed to the upliftment of the underprivileged sections of the society. She is a mentor and guide for the team at Kaushalam Foundation.
Dr. Ajit Gupta
Advisory Board Member
Dr. Ajit Gupta is a native of Udaipur district, Rajasthan. She holds a doctoral degree in Ayurveda from Ayurveda University Jaipur, Rajasthan. After successfully serving as Ayurveda Doctor and Lecturer at Ayurveda University, Udaipur, she took voluntary retirement in 1997 to completely dedicate herself to Social work and Writing. She has published 11+ books consisting of 2 poetry collections, 2 Novels, 1 travelogue to name some. She currently holds multiple positions in several reputed institutions. She is currently positioned as the member of Board of Management in Maharana Pratap Agriculture University and is also serves as prominent member of Administrative Board, Rajasthan State Library Council.
She previously held the reputed positions of Chairman, Rajasthan Sahitya Academy and National Chairman Bharat Vikas Parishad –Mahila. She has received plethora of esteemed awards for her significant writing work on Tribal Areas of India by National Women Commission, 2001 and Vishwa Hindi Samman by Government of India, 2007. Her illustrious career spanning over 3 decades of professional work experience in the fields of Women Empowerment, Writing, Social Entrepreneurship and as a development practitioner is set to strengthen Kaushalam Foundation‘s outreach to fulfill its motto of ‘Building India Through Skilling India’.