This CA left his private equity career to build an Integrative Oncology healthtech platform. Here’s how it impacted over 100,000 lives.

• Hi, I am Kishan Shah, a hardcore finance enthusiast – a Chartered Accountant and MBA from IIM Calcutta.
• I was living my childhood dream of working in the core finance domain until I discovered the true purpose of my life when I lost my close friend Nitesh to cancer.
• After losing Nitesh, our mutual friend and Nitesh’s Partner, Dimple Parmer, founded an NGO called “Love Heals Cancer” to support cancer patients. I started volunteering there along with my job.
• We were helping cancer patients majorly with nutrition, counseling, and therapy sessions. We felt there was scope to do a lot more to simplify their cancer treatment journey.
• In December 2019, I changed my career to build ZenOnco.io with Dimple to improve and extend the lives of cancer patients.

Changing childhood dreams

Since childhood, I wanted to be in the core finance domain. I prepared myself with this in mind.

After qualifying as a CA, I went on to do an MBA from one of the IIMs and later joined JP Morgan investment banking.

In a couple of years, I moved to GIC Private Equity (Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund).