Kalanithi Maran
Kalanithi Murasoli Maran is an Indian media baron who is the chairman and founder of the Sun Group. He owns television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH services, a cricket team (Sunrisers Hyderabad), and a movie production house. He also held a major share in the Indian airline Spice Jet from 2010 to 2015. Career. In 1990, Maran started a monthly magazine in Tamil called "Poomaalai". On 14 April 1993, he founded Sun TV. Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on 24 April 2006 upon raising $133 million for 10% of the share  capital, catapulting him into the billionaire charts. He was among the few representatives at a roundtable with the visiting then US President Bill Clinton. By 2010, he was the 17th richest Indian, with a net worth of US$4 Billion, and is the highest paid business executive in India. Maran and his wife, Kavery were ranked the highest paid Business executives in the list of Indian executive pay charts with a package of each. He has won Young Businessman awards from CNBC and Ernst & Young, and "Forbes" magazine named him the "Television king of southern India". Personal life. Kalanithi Maran  is the son of the former Union Minister of India Murasoli Maran and grand nephew of Former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi. His younger brother Dayanidhi Maran was also a former minister. Kalanithi Maran married Kavery, a native of Coorg and has a daughter named Kaviya Maran He had his schooling with Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai. He graduated in commerce from Loyola College, Chennai. He did his MBA from University of Scranton.