Krishnan Suthanthiran

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Krishnan Suthanthiran (born 1949) is an Indian-Canadian businessman, [1] and president and founder of the Best Medical group of companies. [2] [3]

He was born in India, educated in Canada, and made his fortune selling medical devices and real estate in the Washington, D.C.-area. [4]

He attended Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and completed a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1971. [5] He took pre-medical courses at the University of Toronto, and worked for an oncologist in the U.S. [6]

In 1977, he founded health care supplies distributor Best Medical International in Springfield, Virginia. [7]

In 2005, he purchased the former company town of Kitsault, British Columbia, Canada, for US$5.7 million. The town had housed miners' families, but was abandoned in 1982. [8]

In 2007, he established the Best Cure Foundation in Virginia as a non-profit entity to promote healthcare and education globally. [9]

In 2013, he founded the Proud American Party, a political party in the United States. [10]

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References

  1. "Virginia Millionaire Buys Himself a Ghost Town" by Doug Struck, Washington Post Saturday, July 30, 2005
  2. "Buyer pictures B.C. ghost town Kitsault as gas hub" by Wendy Stueck and Nathan Venderklippe, The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013
  3. One-Dozen "Now Vying for LNG Export from Canada" by Gordon Jaremko, Natural Gas Intel, January 3, 2014
  4. [Washington Post, op.cit.]
  5. Jang, Brent (23 September 2014). "Ghost town to boom town: B.C.'s Kitsault looks to LNG". The Globe and Mail.
  6. Bloomberg BusinessWeek Executive Profile
  7. TeamBest corporate website
  8. [Washington Post, op.cit.]
  9. Best Cure Foundation website
  10. "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