Krishnan Suthanthiran (born 1949) is an Indian-Canadian businessman, and president and founder of the Best Medical group of companies.
He was born in India, educated in Canada, and made his fortune selling medical devices and real estate in the Washington, D.C.-area.
He attended
Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and completed a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1971. He took pre-medical courses at the University of Toronto, and worked for an oncologist in the U.S.
In 1977, he founded health care supplies distributor Best Medical International in Springfield, Virginia.
In 2005, he purchased the former
company town
A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, houses of worship, schools, markets and re ...
of
Kitsault, British Columbia
Kitsault is an unincorporated settlement and a private town on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, at the head of Alice Arm, Observatory Inlet and at the mouth of the Kitsault River. The locality of Alice Arm and the Nisga'a communit ...
, Canada, for US$5.7 million. The town had housed miners' families, but was abandoned in 1982.
In 2007, he established the Best Cure Foundation in Virginia as a non-profit entity to promote healthcare and education globally.
In 2013, he founded the Proud American Party, a political party in the United States.
"Proud American Party plans to produce a series of full length feature films focusing on the financial crises, the role of big banks and how they victimize the American People", Business Wire, August 13, 2013
/ref>
References
{{reflist
External links
Best Medical group of companies
Proud American Party
Best Cure Foundation
Indian emigrants to the United States
American people of Indian descent
American businesspeople