Chirinjeev Kathuria is an Indian-American[2][3][4] investor, physician, politician, businessperson, and philanthropist.[5][6] He was the first Indian-American to run for the US Senate.[7]
Kathuria was the co-founder and co-chairman of UpHealth Inc. which went public on the NYSE (NYSE:UPH).[8][9][10] The company focused on digital care management, telehealth, digital pharmacy and technology-enabled behavioral health.[11] Kathuria is the executive chairman and co-founder of Ocean Biomedical Inc.,[12][13] a biotech company that partners with scientists and research institutions to accelerate the translation of new discoveries into medicines.[14] He is also the co-founder and chairman of New Generation Power International, and co-founder of PlanetSpace.[15][16][17][18][19] Additionally, Kathuria is the co-founder and chairman of the AIRO Group. The AIRO Group brings together technologies and services in urban air mobility, commercial and military aviation, and avionics.[20][21][22][23][24][25] Airo Group Holdings, Inc. Announced a Confidential Submission of Draft Registration Statement Related to Proposed Public Offering.[26][27][28]
Chirinjeev Kathuria was born in New Delhi, India and came with his parents to Chicago, Illinois at the age of eight months.[29] Kathuria graduated Valedictorian from Downers Grove North High School.[30] He received a Bachelor of Science and Doctorate of Medicine from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.[5][1][17]
Career
Businessperson
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.
Space exploration
Kathuria has also been involved in space exploration,[31][17] and was the Founding Director of MirCorp,[17] the first commercial company to privately launch and fund crewed space programs.[31][7][32][33] Kathuria also invested in Russia's Mir space station in its final days.[34][17] In 2005, Chirinjeev Kathuria co-founded PlanetSpace, a privately funded Chicago-based rocket and space travel project,[35] which bid for NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract with Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Alliant Techsystems.[36][37]
Biomedical
Kathuria co-founded Ocean Biomedical and serves as the chairman of its board of directors.[12] Ocean Biomedical is currently pursuing programs in oncology, fibrosis, infectious disease, and inflammation.[14]
He was also the co-founder and co-chairman of UpHealth Inc. which went public on the NYSE (NYSE:UPH).[13][10]
Aerospace and defense
He founded AIRO Group in 2005 which in 2021 acquired Aspen Avionics and proceeded with a merger with Coastal Defense. In the same year, Jaunt Air Mobility entered into a merger with the AIRO group.[20][22][24][25]
