Dr. Devaiah stands as a living example for Success through Hard work. Born and brought up in a very small rural area in South India, he managed to top all through his academic career and entered the medical field. He completed post-graduation and training in Anaesthesiology and sub-specialty in paediatric anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School’s Children Hospital Boston. He started teaching at the University of Tennessee in Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN. He then went on to become chief of Anaesthesia at St. Jude Children’s Hospital, also in Memphis, TN. In 1994, Dr. Devaiah took retirement from medical practice and moved to Florida. He joined Dr. Rudrama in running and growing Suncoast Labs, a clinical lab in Florida. Later the entrepreneurial zeal in Dr. Devaiah pushed him to start Freedom Health Insurance in the US and Anion Healthcare, a BPO catering to the service needs of the Health Insurance industry. Currently, he is the CMD of Anion group of companies with a focus on healthcare and bio-diesel.
Rahul founded and served as the CEO of Anion Technologies Ltd., a software outsourcing firm, and Anion Healthcare Services, since 1999. He is the managing partner of the Pagidipati Family Limited Partnership which holds significant investments in both public (ITEX, Rediff.com, J. Alexanders, and others) and private corporations. Rahul has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Florida, a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law. Rahul served on the Board of Directors of Suncoast Labs, and Freedom Health. He is a licensed attorney in the State of Florida. He is an early crypto investor and a blockchain enthusiast and owns Awlencann Innovations (Zebpay), one of India’s largest crypto exchanges.
Brij is the CEO of Anion Healthcare Services. He is responsible for the operations at Anion, Hyderabad. He has well over 20 years of experience as a Senior Management and Technology expert. He leads the team at Anion on strategy, business, and operations. He has deep knowledge of functional space across multiple verticals. His career started at the Old Dominion University, in the USA as Teaching Assistant, and moved on to a Research Assistant role on a NASA project. Later he worked on Oracle technology and executed several projects on an offshore basis. Subsequently, with a group of investors, he started Pointsoft in India and ran the company as CEO till 2007. Bartronics acquired Pointsoft in 2007 and Brij joined them as Senior Vice President heading E-Governance and Insurance Smart Cards Projects. Brij has a Masters's in Computer Engineering from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.