Kiru Maikkapillai built nutritional food business after quitting US job
Kiru Maikkapillai founded his business, called Divine Foods, after leaving a well-payed job in the United States. He is helping farmers double their income through the business that distributes turmeric-based value-added products. Kiru Maikkapillai of Salem, Tamil Nadu, is the founder and CEO of The Divine Foods, a company that sells turmeric-based value-added goods. He also helps farmers double their income through The Divine Foods. When Kiru Maikkapillai quit a well-paying job in the United States to start a business in India, his parents expected him to stay in his field. But, much to their surprise, he ended up starting a homemade food business in Tamil Nadu. Perhaps they were taken aback since Kiru had aspired to be an entrepreneur since he was a youngster. After graduating engineering and working for a software firm for a few years, Kiru moved to the United States in 2013 to pursue his MBA at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He eventually worked for a...