Chirinjeev Kathuria

Chirinjeev Kathuria was born in New Delhi, India and came with his parents to Chicago, Illinois at the age of eight months.[23] He received a Bachelor of Science and Doctorate of Medicine from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.[5][24][14]

In 2004, Kathuria ran for U.S. Senate in Illinois, becoming the first Indian-American and first person of the Sikh religion running for federal office in US history.[lower-alpha 1][25] in a race that included eventual winner, Barack Obama.[14] Kathuria co-founded American Teleradiology NightHawks Inc., which was acquired in 2005 by NightHawk Radiology Holdings Inc.; the combined company went public on NASDAQ in 2006. In 2010 he co-founded New Generation Power International. Kathuria has also been involved in space exploration,[26][14] and was the Founding Director of Mircorp,[14] the first commercial company to privately launch and fund manned space programs.[26][27][28][29] Kathuria also invested in Russia's Mir space station in its final days.[30][14] In 2005, Chirinjeev Kathuria co-founded PlanetSpace, a privately funded Chicago-based rocket and space travel project,[31] which bid for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Alliant Techsystems.[32][33] Kathuria co-founded Ocean Biomedical and serves as the Chairman of its Board of Directors.[9] Ocean Biomedical is currently pursuing programs in oncology, fibrosis, infectious disease, and inflammation.[11]

He is also the co-founder and co-chairman of UpHealth Inc. which went public on the NYSE (NYSE:UPH). [10][8]