Ravi Kailas

The firm designed and manufactured payphones that were assembled with computer components, and installed in major urban areas.

[1] In 2002, Kailas co-founded Xius Technologies, a telecommunications software company, and launched the world's first inter-operator prepaid roaming service.

[2] The same year, Kailas founded Altius Investment Trust,[1] a real estate financial options company.

[4] Kailas advocates for “open” philanthropy, where multiple sectors of society pool resources to tackle development challenges at scale.

The Myth of the Entrepreneur, a book about this subject, authored by Kailas in collaboration with Cathy Guo, is to be published by HarperCollins in April 2019.