Sanjeev Kanoria

In 2013, Kanoria acquired the domestic banking unit of Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria, founded in 1896.^[13][14] The bank, renamed Austrian Anadi Bank, has corporate, retail and public finance divisions and assets totaling €2.9 billion.^[15]

In 1999, having left McKinsey, Kanoria co-founded Advinia Health Care with his wife, Sangita Kanoria, using equity from his London home to fund his PhD in liver transplant.^[11] In February 2018, Advinia Health Care acquired 22 care homes and 2,700 beds from Bupa, becoming one of the top ten private care providers in the UK. Today, Advinia operates 38 care homes with 3,250 beds and is valued at over 250 million pounds.^[16] In 2017, Advinia Healthcare became the first care provider in the UK to research the use of robots in care homes,^[17] participating in the EU-Japan project CARESSES^[18] led by University of Genova.^[19] The 2 million euros EU-funded project, in partnership with University of Genova, Middlesex University, University of Bedfordshire, Örebro University, SoftBank, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nagoya University and Chubu University, ran from January 2017 ^[20] to January 2020. The Pepper robot,^[21] owned by Softbank, was embedded with an Artificial Intelligence developed in the project, designed to interact with older people in a culturally competent way to address their needs.

Dr. Kanoria received the Healthcare Economist of the Year award in 2014 at the Pharma Leaders Power Brand Awards.^[22]

The world transplant society has honoured Dr Sanjeev kanoria by creating a Dr sanjeev kanoria liver transplant award which will be awarded every year in perpetuity for innovation in liver transplant https://tts.org/news/tribune-pulse-weekly-newsletter/1657-tts-tribune-pulse-august-10-volume-ix-issue-31#:~:text=Sanjeev%20%26%20Sangita%20Kanoria%20Foundation%E2%80%94honouring,%2C%20innovation%2C%20and%20patient%20care.