Chirinjeev Kathuria

Kathuria co-founded American Teleradiology NightHawks Inc., which was acquired in 2005 by NightHawk Radiology Holdings Inc.; the combined company went public on NASDAQ in 2006. In 2010 he co-founded New Generation Power International.

Kathuria has also been involved in space exploration,^[31][17] and was the Founding Director of MirCorp,^[17] the first commercial company to privately launch and fund crewed space programs.^{[31][7][32][33]} Kathuria also invested in Russia's Mir space station in its final days.^[34][17] In 2005, Chirinjeev Kathuria co-founded PlanetSpace, a privately funded Chicago-based rocket and space travel project,^[35] which bid for NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract with Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Alliant Techsystems.^[36][37]

Kathuria co-founded Ocean Biomedical and serves as the chairman of its board of directors.^[12] Ocean Biomedical is currently pursuing programs in oncology, fibrosis, infectious disease, and inflammation.^[14]

He was also the co-founder and co-chairman of UpHealth Inc. which went public on the NYSE (NYSE:UPH).^[13][10]

He founded AIRO Group in 2005, which 2021 acquired Aspen Avionics and proceeded with a merger with Coastal Defense. In the same year, Jaunt Air Mobility entered into a merger with the AIRO group.^{[20][22][24][25]}

In 2004, Kathuria was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for the United States Senate election in Illinois. Jack Ryan was the eventual primary winner. Democrat and future President Barack Obama went on to win the general election.^[2][3][4]