Rizwan Koita
(Hon.)Adjunct Professor of Practice
Rizwan 2022 - Small.jpeg

Biography

Rizwan Koita is an entrepreneur and philanthropist (www.koitafoundation.org) with a passion to leverage emerging technologies and business process innovation to have meaningful social impact. Rizwan is the co-founder of CitiusTech (www.citiustech.com) and ran the company as CEO from 2005 to October 2021. CitiusTech is a global leader in healthcare technology and one of the Unicorns in India. CitiusTech today has over 7000 healthcare technology professionals and over USD 325 Mn in revenues. Prior to CitiusTech, Rizwan co-founded TransWorks (now Concentrix), one of the first BPO firms in India, which was acquired by the Aditya Birla group in 2003. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Rizwan was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Co., advising corporations on business strategy and operations. Rizwan is the recipient of the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2013) and the recipient of the 2002 Indo-American Society's ‘Young Achievers Award in Business’. Rizwan is on the Board of NABH, India’s leading accreditation organization for hospitals and on the advisory board of many NGOs. Rizwan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and has a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), ranking #1 in both programs.