Karunn
Kandoi (Born: January 22 1978)
Young and dynamic Karunn Kandoi
has an extremely interesting and noteworthy life. Despite a modest beginning,
at a very young age, he has attained excellent professional success and
reputation. At this young age, he has already worked with the giants like GE,
Philips Medical Systems and Microsoft and left a memorable impression there.
Presently, he is the President of Skill Development and Training of an online
education company, Extramarks
Education Private Limited and
has emerged as a thought leader in the new age learning methods.
Born in Cuttack, Orissa to Shree
Gopal Kandoi and Kusum Kandoi on 22 January 1978, Karunn Kandoi belongs to a
very humble background. In 1982, the family moved to Jaipur, and that brought
about a huge change in Karunn’s life. After completing his schooling from TPS
Jaipur, he went ahead and got an Engineering Degree in instrumentation and
electronics from BIT Bangalore.
Further
Education and Accomplishments
Being an achiever and an
all-rounder, he not only participated in many events in the college, but also
was chosen as a member of the Placement Cell for the college, where he got an
excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and experience. In 1999 to improve his
skills, he took up a course in Placement Process of Reengineering (PPR) that was
being conducted by a renowned organization named PESIT (Bangalore). Around the
same time, he started helping his uncle in managing a company named Swastik
Marbles, due to his unmatched efforts this company that had started off with
just $10000 grew to a $300,000 worth company.
The
Achievements
After the completion of his
engineering degree in 2000, he joined the GE Medical Bangalore (General
Electric Medical system) as a Quality and Configuration Management Lead and
Design Engineer. Soon, Karunn Kandoi won praise in the company for showing his
talent in designing an automated testing module. He also got the prestigious
GE’s Clinical excellence award and won the honorable certification of Six Sigma
Green Belt.
In 2001, Karunn decided to go for
further education and joined the University of Washington for MBA. His
education was totally self-funded, and he assisted the university as an
assistant teacher and was awarded the best teaching certificate in his tenure. After the 3rd quarter of his MBA, he joined
Philips Medical Systems as a Corporate Intern and the same company offered him
a job as a Marketing Manager the year he completed his MBA in 2004. Here too,
all he got was success and accolades; he was responsible for re-engineering the
firms’ marketing strategy for the entire North America and led to 50% increase
in the market share in the $100 million vascular surgery equipment.
It’s noteworthy to mention that
while still in MBA, Karunn along with 4 other friends conceptualized a business
called Complianz Inc. The aim of this business was to simplify the process of
FDA approvals in the US and to allow the biomedical companies for developing
the internationally compliant products for the rapidly expanding global market
while simultaneously reducing the time to the market.
In the year 2005, he got an offer
to join Microsoft Corporation as the position of Product manager for MSN search.
His efforts at MSN led to considerable incremental revenue of $12 Million in
FY05 through better monetization. Further, he led the audits for understanding
MSN searches, internal business reporting system and market share.
Return
to India
In 2005, he got married to his
soul mate and in the year end returned to India for good. Being an achiever and
a visionary, he soon launched an educational organization called Focus, which
aimed at the career assessment of children and Spoken English classes. The
company grew exponentially, and by the year 2009 it was spread to over 10
states and had 70 offices in different locations all over India. Karunn Kandoi
is currently the President of Skill Development and Training business at Extramarks Education.
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