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Mr. Kailash Katkar is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Kailash Katkar was born into a Maharashtrian family in a small village at Rahimatpur, Maharashtra on 1st November, 1966. He grew up in Pune and from a very young age he chose to break the norms of attending rigorous classroom sessions and decided to divert his inquisitiveness and hard work to creating his own business. This little spur of thought guided by sheer grit and gumption drove him to set up his own business – from a small one-room, boot-strapped electrical device repair station to a Security Solutions empire spread over 100 countries worldwide. The company has global offices in Dubai, US, Japan and Kenya. It has a well-connected network of 15,000 plus channel partners worldwide. Quick Heal Technologies employs more than 1100 people across 38 branches in the country.
Before working on his own, he served as a maintenance engineer at Data Star Electronics. His business acumen and astute sense of market trends prompted him to take over this virtually dying technology and transform it into a Computer maintenance and hardware peripherals company – CAT Computer Services, in 1991. When his younger brother Sanjay Katkar, came up with a highly reviewed project on Computer viruses during his post grad, he encouraged him to take a step further by diversifying their core capabilities into the creation and development of antivirus solutions. Both brothers founded Quick Heal Technologies in the year 1994 and focused solely on the in-house brand ‘Quick Heal’, creating marketing strategies and reworking on operational strengths to build a dedicated Research and Development center and a strong ground-support team that now spans over 30 cities in India.
As the CEO, his strategic business partnerships that have continuously produced significant business value for Quick Heal Technologies in the form of financial performance, customer satisfaction and loyalty, market share, and productivity. He also leads the strategy for how to best manage and orchestrate the delivery of Quick Heal products and services for customers.
His strong commitment to operational excellence, innovative approach to business problems, and aptitude for partnering cross-functionally have reshaped and leveraged the security brand as the most preferred solution in consumer and SOHO segments and have rearranged the brand preference in enterprise segment.
Kailash Katkar the dynamic and spectacular CEO of Quick heal is a recipient of the coveted ‘GS Parkhe Industrial Merit Award 2009’ awarded by MCCIA (The Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture). He is also among the coveted six finalists of the Ernst & Young’s 2014 Ready, Set, Grow program that allows high-potential entrepreneurs to present their business plans for growth to a panel of world-class entrepreneur mentors for guidance and feedback. He was selected from 160 participants from around the world. Earlier this year, he was among the 16 finalists for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2014. He has also been felicitated with Maxell Award for Maharashtra Corporate Excellence, 2012 – in the category of Innovation by Maharashtra Chief Minister Hon’ble Shri. Prithviraj Chavan. He has also received Army Institute of Technology’s (AIT) ‘Young Entrepreneurs’ Award. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Brands Academy Entrepreneurship Excellence Award being recognized as “Entrepreneur of the Year in IT Security “.
Quick Heal Technologies has continuously stood out and created benchmarks in innovation and development. The company won the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 – an award that commemorates the fastest growing technological companies in India. It has stood out as the most preferred antivirus brand in the Consumer and SOHO category bagging the CRN Channel Champions award for six consecutive years, from 2009-2014 and as the most preferred security solutions in the Enterprise segment for three consecutive years. It has been recognized by the Government of India as one of India’s most globally competitive SME with business practices at par with global giants with the Emerging India Award 2009. It has been honored by the Government of Maharastra with the ‘Maharastra IT Awards 2009-10’ for unique and innovative IT Software Security Solutions.
Quick Heal product family has been established as an industry benchmark in computer security certified by ICSA Labs, Virus Bulletin, AV-Test, AV-Comparatives, PCSL and West Coast Labs UK. The security products are used by consumers, small business, Government establishments and corporate houses for protecting their computers from viruses and other vulnerable threats. Quick Heal has partnered with Microsoft, Intel and QuantumLink Communications Pvt. Ltd. (QLC) to provide comprehensive antivirus solutions that can be easily integrated into the partner’s technology.
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