KAILASH KATKAR

(QUICK HEALS)

INTRODUCTION

Early life:

In 1966 1st November, Kailash Katkar was born, a later known name is the Founder of the Rs.
200crore Quick Heal Technologies. Kailash was in a typical Maharashtrian family that too in a
small village of Rahimatpur in Maharashtra. Later, he grew up in Pune, where his father used to
work at Philips as a machine setter.
Education:

Katkar gave up formal education after he passed the secondary school ceritificate examination
in the mid 1980s because of his family’s circumstances. His father was a machine setter in
electrical company Philips in pune and his mother was a homemaker. Kailash has two siblings
Sanjay and Asha. Kailash flunked his ninth standard and dropped out from school and took up a
job at a local radio and calculator repair shop. Although his brother, Sanjay completed class 10th,
electronics fascinated him and he decided to pursue his engineering in electronics. Kailash
encouraged Sanjay to study computers and the later finished his Bachelors in Computer Science
from Modern College, Pune. In 1990 he started his own repair shop along with a seed capital of
Rs.15,000 from his savings. That was his first step to his entrepreneurial journey. Along side he
began upgrading his skill set and began reading and attending short computer courses.

Procedure to start quick heal technologies :

In 1993 along side his calculator repair shop, Kailash started his new venture called CAT
Computer Services with an office based in a small one-room electrical device repair station.
Within a few months of starting his new venture, he also managed to break-in to the corporate
world by winning the annual maintenance contract for New India Insurance.

During this process, Kailash managed to see a future issue evolving which is computer
viruses. Since the internet was becoming popular, it only meant that the computers would be at
great risk and would create multiple channels for viruses to reach the machines. That is when he
began working on a definite solution for the same.

By this time his brother Sanjay who was studying Computer Engineering in Pune had begun
writing software programs and he insisted Sanjay to start developing a basic model of antivirus
software for his own firm CAT Computer Services. That is how antivirus Quick Heal came into
existence.

Quick Heal Technologies Limited which was formerly known as CAT Computer Services (P)
Ltd started as a computer service center in 1995. Through constant innovation and technology
adaptations it established itself as a complete IT security solutions provider and renamed the
company as Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in 2007.

Quick Heal is committed to developing security solutions that ensure resource

availability, business continuity and uninterrupted digital experiences. The organization is
managed in high entrepreneurial spirit and has always encouraged adaptation to technological
transformations and product customization and has a customer centric approach.