Raj Vattikuti | Altimet

When Raj Vattikuti founded Altimetrik eight years ago, he set out to revamp the conventional approach to digital transformation. From his experience as a founder of several other companies, Vattikuti knew that consulting companies would too often identify a solution before they understood the problem. This approach wasted time and money, and it failed to deliver sustainable business outcomes.

Instead, Vattikuti recognized that companies would be better off by identifying the data they needed to make more informed business decisions before deploying new technology. Following this approach has helped Altimetrik grow into a global enterprise with double-digit revenue growth; more than 2,500 employees; and offices in Canada, India, Japan, Singapore and Uruguay.  

A serial entrepreneur and three-time Entrepreneur Of The Year Award regional winner, Vattikuti is also a strong believer in giving back. After taking one of the companies he founded public in 2001, he established the Vattikuti Foundation with his wife, Padma. The foundation has donated more than $40 million for cancer research. And when the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread earlier in 2020, the foundation kicked into high gear to donate funds for mobile COVID-19 testing centers for senior citizens and other vulnerable populations.

Vattikuti carefully vets each charity, making sure each organization will use the funds wisely. His contributions have helped to promote the use of technology to achieve better results, from robotic prostate surgeries to using state-of-the-art tools for breast cancer.