Sanjeev Kanoria


Sanjeev Kanoria is a London-based liver transplant surgeon, and healthcare entrepreneur. He is the chairman of Advinia HealthCare as well as the owner and vice-chairman of the supervisory board of Austrian Anadi Bank. A trustee of the Kanoria Foundation, which has an asset base of USD 10 billion, he is the son of Hari Prasad and Champa Devi Kanoria - and brother of Hemant Kanoria, chairman of Indian group SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited.

Medical career

Dr Kanoria trained at King's College London and Royal Free Hospital, London. He has worked for over 15 years in the area of liver transplant and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons as well as being included on the General Medical Council Specialist Register.
Dr Kanoria has a PhD from University College London for his research on reducing liver injury. He is the co-author of the chapter on liver disease in the Bailey & Love surgery textbook.
After receiving an MBA from London Business School and North Western University in 1997, Dr Kanoria served as a consultant in Healthcare, Strategy & Finance at McKinsey & Co until 1999.
He has set up a Rs 450 crore, 400-bed, multi-specialty hospital in Navi Mumbai. The 500,000 square foot hospital is set to open in December.

Austrian Anadi Bank

In 2013, Dr Kanoria acquired the domestic banking unit of Austrian bank Hypo Alpe Adria, founded in 1896, for around €65.5m. The bank, renamed Austrian Anadi Bank, has corporate, retail and public finance divisions and assets totaling €2.9 billion.

Advinia Health Care

In 1999, having left McKinsey, he started a private healthcare provider with his wife Sangita Kanoria, Advinia Health Care. He co-founded Advinia. In February 2018, Advinia Health Care acquired 22 care homes and 2,700 beds from Bupa in a move which put it among the top ten private care providers in the UK. Today, Advinia operates 38 care homes with 3,250 beds and is valued at over 250 million pounds.
In 2017, Advinia Healthcare became the first care provider to research the use of robots in care homes. The £2.5million EU-funded trial in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire will be launched in September. The Pepper robot, owned by Softbank, was designed with the ability to read emotions.
Dr. Kanoria received the Healthcare Economist of the Year 2014 at the Pharma Leaders Power Brand Awards.

Personal life

In 2016, he was one of 80 British-Indian business leaders who signed a letter outlining the benefits of the UK's membership in the European Union.