For years, Krishna Nallamilli enjoyed a career outside of the family business, Aditya Educational Institutions. A self-described tech geek, Krishna was making waves in India’s Southern tech-hub Bangalore working as a software engineer.
In 2008, he agreed to come back and help out in the family business only after making himself a promise – if it was not working out after a year, he would happily return to his previous life. He never turned back.
Finding his place within the organisation, however, was no easy task. He had to build confidence in team members that did not see him as a legitimate leader and find a way of working with family members without jeopardising the relationship with them. Establishing boundaries to help separate the different parts of his life was the only way to move forward.
More than a decade later, Krishna leads two successful business. He remains Vice-Chairman at Aditya and is also Co-Founder and CTO of Kimo, an education-related venture he launched with a classmate he met while at Harvard Business School.
