Tarun Kumar is the Founder of Xyanni

Tarun founded and headed, for nearly three years, Xaar India . (Owned by Xaar plc, an ink jets manufacturer listed on the LSE, based out of Science Park , Cambridge , UK , and winner of the Queen's award for enterprise: Innovation 2005). Earlier he was General Manager & Head of Business Development at RMSI, a GIS company employing about 800 persons in India and owned by DMGT plc, a FTSE 100 company. He has about 14 years of high quality work experience in hi-tech as well as conventional industries. Most of this experience was with small and medium sized innovative businesses.

Tarun was a Chevening Leadership Scholar at the Leeds University, UK. He is a Fellow of the 21 st Century Trust , UK . He was Silver Medalist in masters in international trade at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Before that he had done M.Sc. (Statistics).

He has co-moderated conferences of the World Bank, been consultant/ speaker at the confederation/ chambers of Indian industry, quoted frequently by Reuters/ Knight Ridder and the Indian media.

Tarun is a keen observer and participant of the Asian socio-cultural milieu. Though he has traveled to over 20 countries on business, he is firmly rooted in India . He likes flying.