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Nationality
  
Indian

Name
  
Rizwan Koita

Residence
  
Mumbai


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Born
  
December 12, 1969
India

Alma mater
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (MIT), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Occupation
  
Co-founder and CEO of CitiusTech

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Rizwan Koita (born 12 December 1969) is the co founder and CEO of CitiusTech, a healthcare technology solutions and services provider, with a presence in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He founded CitiusTech in 2005 along with his colleague Jagdish Moorjani. CitiusTech has won several awards in healthcare technology including American Business Award (Stevie Award), Red Herring in 2011 and has been consistently recognized among Best Companies to Work for in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 by the Great Place to Work® Institute India.

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Education

Rizwan holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a S.M. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA.

Career

Rizwan began his professional career in 1995 as a Management Consultant with McKinsey & Company. In 1999, Rizwan co-founded TransWorks (now Minacs), which was acquired by the Aditya Birla Group in 2003, marking its foray into the BPO market.

In 2005, Rizwan co-founded CitiusTech. CitiusTech provides healthcare technology solutions and services related to hospitals/IDNs, Payers/Health Plans, Life Science Companies. In 2014, General Atlantic invested over $100 million in CitiusTech.

CitusTech has set up a healthcare innovation fund(HIF) in association with the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) at IIT Bombay, seeding investments in healthcare-focused startups

Awards

  • Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2013
  • The Indo-American Society's 'Young Achievers Award in Business', 2002
  • IIT Bombay Institute Medal, 1992
  • References

    Rizwan Koita Wikipedia