Rudy Rupak
| Rudy Rupak | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born |
November 14, 1968 Chiswick, United Kingdom |
| Education | University of Calgary |
| Occupation | Founder of PlanetHospital |
| Known for | Medical Tourism,Snowboard Academy |
| Home town | Santa Barbara, California |
| Website | rudyrupak |
Rudy Rupak (also known as Rudy Rupak Acharya born 14 Nov 1968) is a serial entrepreneur best known for introducing the business of Medical Tourism as the founder of the world's first Medical Tourism company, PlanetHospital. He is also known for producing Snowboard Academy
Rudy was born on 14 Nov 1968 in Chiswick, UK. Prior to PlanetHospital, Rudy's serial entrepreneur skills started at the age of 17 when he sold his first software business to a company that was eventually acquired by Corel Corp. just shortly after graduating high school. After a year at University of Calgary, another year at Simon Fraser and then at the University of Kwaazulu Natal, South Africa, Rudy returned to Canada to pursue his love of film. Rudy spent three years at various film distribution companies before finally starting his own production company, Millennium Multimedia. Millennium was responsible for several video games including PRIMORTALS and Boardlords, the first computer game about snowboarding. In 1996 Rudy Rupak produced Snowboard Academy for Colombia Tri-Star Entertainment, as well as She's Too Tall For Me.
In 1996, Rudy's company Millennium Multimedia was mistook for a company involved in Y2K initiatives and he seized upon the opportunity to create a software that would scan a PC's bios for Y2K compatibility. The company was taken public in 1997 under the name Planet City Software, trading symbol PINC. In 1998, Rudy created an online ecommerce software tool the ecommkit before exiting PINC to join American Apparel as its first CTO.
While at American Apparel, Rudy created a call center named ContactStation in Thailand, followed by partnering with Stewart Title, to introduce title insurance to India. Contact Station was sold to Loxley Inc and the title insurance endeavour fizzled out but on a trip back from India, when his wife became sick and was taken to a hospital in Bangkok, Rudy realized that there was potential in sending foreigners to Thailand for medical treatment and the Medical Tourism company Planethospital was born.
...
Wikipedia