5 Global Entrepreneurs, Who learnt Life Lessons from India


Sunil Thomas: The co-founder of Wiz Rocket Technologies Sunil Thomas worked in Seattle as chief technology officer till 2009.He worked with network18 group before he went on to build a user behavior analyzing and targeting tool that intends to help web businesses to interact with their users both online and offline. Having decided to turn into an entrepreneur, Thomas was 39 when he came back to India. He moved to Silicon Valley in 2014.His startup Wiz Rocket Technologies as of now has raised over $1.6 million from Accel partners.

Sanjay Kakkar: having been born and raised in the U.K. Sanjay Kakkar studied in King’s college London and Harvard, before he moved to India to work in MNCs and startups, in the U.K. , U.S., Italy and Germany. Kakkar started Jai Medica and today he has shifted to the U.K. and keeps connecting between Europe, North America, India and Far East. India introduced kakkar the Desi Virtue called Jugaad. He learnt how to innovate with fewer resources. He said, “Therefore, India is an ideal place to develop healthcare technologies designed to cater directly to the customer.”

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