Kailash Katkar story

When one door closes, another opens. It's been like that through Kailash Katkar's life. Every time an opportunity looked like dimming, another emerged for him. The founder and managing director of the over Rs 200-crore antivirus software maker Quick Heal Technologies, however, puts it differently. He says his success was largely the result of his ability to sense changes in technology.

                                

Born in a small village at Rahimatpur in Maharashtra, Kailash Katkar worked his way to the top to be chairman and CEO of INR 200 Cr business. He is the man behind Quickheal technologies Pvt Ltd. He started with a job at local radio and calculator repair shop and later went ahead in 1990 to start his own calculator repair business.

In 1993 he started a new venture, CAT computer services where around that time his younger brother Sanjay developed a basic model of antivirus software which helped in solving the biggest problem of computer maintenance at that time.

Later in 2007 it was renamed as Quick Heal Technologies. He achieved all this without any formal education.