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Dr. Sanjay Katkar co-founded Quick Heal Technologies Limited in the year 1995. He is the Joint Managing Director and an executive member of the Board of Directors.
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Dr. Sanjay Katkar co-founded Quick Heal Technologies Limited in the year 1995. He is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Joint Managing Director and an executive member of the Board of Directors.
- Stars of Wakdewadi
- Welcome to The World of Computers, and Viruses
- Building Tools - Genesis of Quick Heal
- The Name - Quick Heal
- The Aha Moment
- The Quick Heal Advantage
- Of Lows and Subsequent Highs
- Evolution of Viruses and Anti-Viruses
- Threats and Acquisitions
- From Funding to IPO
Hailing from a small village in Maharashtra’s Satara district, Sanjay’s father moved to Pune where he joined Philips as a tool setter. Despite being recognised as a good worker, he couldn't grow owing to a lack of education and that’s when he decided his children would not go through a similar fate. Sanjay and his siblings, elder brother Kailash an...
It was in the second year of college that Sanjay truly developed an interest in computers and programming with the C language. With limited time allotted for the subject, Sanjay started working on computers that his brother took on to repair at his shop. That is when Sanjay came face to face with computer viruses. Curiosity led him to Amol Deshpand...
The first tool Sanjay created was for the Michelangelo virus. In his second year, he created three to four antivirus. Since internet penetration was negligible in India then, he encountered a new virus once every week or two and took two days to work on a tool. After his graduation, Sanjay joined Wadia College in Pune to pursue his masters and woul...
While the market was dominated by MNCs’ anti-virus solutions (like Norton), they couldn't clean many viruses specific to people in India. Sanjay's tools/solutions, on the other hand, could clean the viruses quickly as it didn't scan for a whole lot of viruses like other anti-viruses. Hence the name Quick Heal. Also read -From earning Rs 400 per mon...
In 1997, OneHalf and Dir-II viruses of MS-DOS were troubling many systems and Sanjay saw that the problem run deep. He started working on a solution and it took him two weeks to come up with a solution that could clean an infected system. The solution soon became popular in Pune, and people started recognising Quick Heal as an anti-virus that could...
Quick Heal still maintained an edge over MNCs’ products as the solutions were developed based on Sanjay's interaction with people and challenges faced by them in real life situations. His focus was to have fewer features, but solve more critical problems. In 1998, Quick Heal was the only anti-virus that allowed a user to login to Noel network serve...
In 2001, Sanjay almost gave up telling Kailash that without any developer, he couldn’t keep fighting the MNCs. Kailash asked Sanjay to hang on for some time and hired some more marketing personnel. Every quarter they started opening a new branch, and business grew. Quick Heal also started advertising in 2004, which helped the sales and branding. So...
From 1995 to 2002, viruses didn't have financial gains and were created for fun. Sanjay says, “One can devote only so much time for something like that and that too when you know that it's benefitting anti-virus solution companies, it's demotivating for the hackers. However, things started to change with the increase in internet penetration and onl...
The security field is fast growing and Quick Heal faces two major challenges: 1. Threats are more advanced and come from all directions. 2. Newer companies are solving specific threats which most anti-virus companies have missed on. Eg. Fire Eye monitors the log parallel, understands the analytics, and caches threats. This wasn’t present in any sec...
From 2003 to 2010, Quick Heal grew 100 percent every year, and was cash rich when Sequoia Capital, India, showed interest. Initially, Sanjay and Kailash weren't convinced about the idea of raising funds but when the company gave ESOPs to retain employees, the brothers thought of putting an external valuation to the company. Every chartered accounta...
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Dr. Sanjay Katkar: Co-Founder of Quick Heal Technologies Limited, Joint Force, and Technology Powerhouse behind the company's journey. An unmatched Cybertech Mastermind, who is relentlessly shaping the company’s global technology strategy and driving core research and development while pursuing product innovation to fortify cyber security. 8
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Sanjay Katkar is the Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Quick Heal Technologies, a leading global provider of IT security solutions. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from University of Pune, India.
