Chirinjeev Kathuria is an Indian-American investor, physician, businessperson, and philanthropist.  Dr. Kathuria is a serial entrepreneur having founded six companies across telehealth, biotechnology, sustainable energy, telecommunications, and aerospace.  Dr. Kathuria was instrumental in setting up the first US Investment bank office in India and served as the manager of the investment banking division for Morgan Stanley.  Dr. Kathuria also ran for the US Senate in Illinois in 2004 against Barack Obama, becoming the first Indian-American and first person of the Sikh religion running for federal office in US history.

Chirinjeev Kathuria is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of UpHealth which recently agreed to merge with Cloudbreak Health and to be taken public by blank-check acquisition company GigCapital2, Inc; Ocean Biomedical which recently filed confidentially with the SEC to go public on Nasdaq; American Teleradiology NightHawks Inc., which was acquired in 2005 by NightHawk Radiology Holdings Inc., and subsequently went public on Nasdaq in 2006.

Dr.  Kathuria also served as a director of the X-Stream Networks, an internet service provider which was sold to Liberty Surf Group and subsequently went public on the Paris Stock Exchange.

Kathuria has also been involved in space exploration, and was the Founding Director of Mircorp, the first commercial company to privately launch and fund manned space programs. In 2005, Chirinjeev co-founded PlanetSpace, a privately funded Chicago-based rocket and space travel project, which bid for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Alliant Techsystems.   

Dr. Kathuria is Chairman of The AIRO Group.  The AIRO Group companies represent a transformation of the aerospace industry by providing a diversified offering of capabilities positioned to be the first mid-tier, full-spectrum aerospace company offering end-to-end solutions for the industry.

In 2010, Chirinjeev co-founded New Generation Power International. 

Chirinjeev Kathuria was born in New Delhi, India and came with his parents to Chicago, Illinois at the age of eight months. He has received a Bachelor of Science and Doctorate of Medicine from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University.