Faizal Kottikollan

Kottikollon runs KEF Holdings an investment company that he founded after selling ETC, one of the largest foundries in the world, to Tyco for $400 million. The KEF group which has operations in healthcare development and infrastructure apart from other strategic investments across diversified sectors in Singapore, India, and the U.A.E. Over the last year, the group’s flagship hospital, Meitra, set up the state’s first Tele-ICU at Beach Hospital, Kozhikode. In 2014, Faizal launched KEF Infra, which was among the world’s largest fully integrated offsite infra manufacturing facility, in  2018, KEF Holdings, under leadership, announced the merger of KEF Infra with Katerra, a Softbank-backed Silicon Valley infra tech company, He is also a Member of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s prestigious panel of ‘Champions of Change for Infrastructure’.