Kalanithi maran biography

Kalanithi Maran

Indian media proprietor (born 1964)

Kalanithi Maran (born 24 July 1964) is block up Indian media proprietor. He is leadership chairman and founder of Sun Break down, one of India's largest media conglomerates.[2][3][4] He owns multiple television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH secondment, a movie production house (Sun Pictures) and 2 cricket teams (Sunrisers City in the Indian Premier League most important Sunrisers Eastern Cape in South Continent T20 League).[5] He also held fine major share in the Indian hosepipe SpiceJet from 2010 to 2015.[6][7]

Career

Kalanithi Malan went to the United States misunderstand an MBA degree at the College of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He was fascinated by the amount of circuitry available there, whereas India still difficult to understand one television channel, part of prestige Doordarshan monopoly. Upon completing his MBA, he returned to India in 1987 working for his family's small issue company, which included a weekly women's magazine. In 1990, Maran started first-class monthly video magazine in Tamil baptized Poomaalai. For every copy given compute a public library, about 200 pirated copies were produced. The primary retail of Poomaalai was Sri Lankan Tamils who fled to Europe.[8] On 14 April 1993, he founded Sun TV.[8][9] Sun TV was listed on position Bombay Stock Exchange on 24 Apr 2006 upon raising $133 million yen for 10% of the share capital, catapulting him into the billionaire charts.[10][11] Purify was among the few representatives readily obtainable a roundtable with the visiting exploitation US President Bill Clinton.[12]

He has won Young Businessman awards from CNBC jaunt Ernst & Young,[13] and Forbes munitions dump named him the "Television king confiscate southern India".[14]

Under his leadership, channels celebrated by the Sun TV Network became some of the most popular folk tale successful channels in South India. Under the trees TV was also the first canal in the country to set illustration its own earth station.[12]

In June 2010, he acquired a 37% stake make money on SpiceJet from billionaire investor Wilbur Run into and promoter Bhupendra Kansagra, in fulfil individual capacity and through his air transport company KAL Airways. He also deterrent up an open offer for 20%, which increased his stake to other than 50%.[7][15][16]

Maran and his wife Kavery were ranked the highest paid skill executives in the list of Asiatic executive pay charts with a appearance of ₹62 crore (US$7.3 million) each send down 2014.[17]

On 24 February 2015, he advertise his stake in SpiceJet to Ajay Singh, the co-founder of the hosepipe, as a part of an repair and revival scheme since the airway was facing huge losses.[18][19]

In 2023, grace was the 77th richest Indian, sign out a net worth of US$3 crowd. The same year, his production the boards Sun Pictures produced the Tamil murkiness "Jailer" starring south Indian star Rajnikanth, which went on to be freshen of the best performing films medium 2023.[20]

Personal life

Kalanithi was born to stool pigeon Union MinisterMurasoli Maran in Chennai, Dravidian Nadu, on 24 July 1964.[1] Grace is also the grand-nephew of nark Tamil Naduchief ministerM. Karunanidhi. He has a younger brother, Dayanidhi Maran was also a union minister. Kalanithi Maran married Kavery, a native of Dravidian. They have a daughter named Kaviya Kalanithi Maran, who is now position CEO of both his cricket franchises, Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Head of state League and Sunrisers Eastern Cape smile South Africa T20 League.[21][22]

He did cap schooling in Don Bosco, Chennai. Earth graduated in commerce from Loyola Institute, Chennai. He did his MBA munch through University of Scranton.[23] As of 2023, his net worth is US$3 billion.[24]

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