Chakri Toleti

Chakri Toleti is an Indian American business executive who is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of care.ai, a health technology company.

Chakri Toleti
Born
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Alma materUniversity of Central Florida
Occupations
  • Founder & CEO of care.ai

  • President & Founder of HealthGrid

  • Co-founder & President of Galvanon

  • Director
  • writer
  • actor
  • visual effects coordinator
Years activeFilm: 1983–1992
Galvanon: 2002–2010
Film: 2008–2019
HealthGrid: 2014–2019
care.ai: 2019–present

Before this, Toleti was the Founder and President of HealthGrid, an enterprise patient engagement platform designed to connect patients and providers via their smart devices.[1] In 2018, HealthGrid was acquired by Allscripts to integrate HealthGrid’s functionality into their FollowMyHealth platform. Prior to HealthGrid, Toleti co-founded Galvanon, a company that first introduced patient self-service kiosk registration to automate patient check-in and intake processes NCR acquired Galvanon in 2005.[2]

Toleti was also an active screenwriter, director, actor, and visual effects coordinator known for his works in Tamil cinema, and Hindi cinema.[3][4] Toleti made his directorial debut with the bilingual films Unnaipol Oruvan (2009) and Eeenadu (2009) a remake of Neeraj Pandey's Hindi film, A Wednesday (2008). In 2012, he directed a gangster film Billa II.[5] In 2019, he directed two remakes of the Mike Flanagan slasher film Hush: the Hindi Khamoshi, and the Tamil Kolaiyuthir Kaalam.

Business career

Toleti co-founded Galvanon in 2002.[6]

Toleti founded HealthGrid in 2014 and served as President of the company.

care.ai

care.ai was founded in 2019 in Orlando, Florida, by Toleti, the Founder and current CEO. The Smart Care Facility Platform is the main product which converts care facilities into an AI-powered environment that monitors clinical and operational workflows.[7] The company's ambient monitoring system is used to predict issues before they escalate, for example, tracking patient movement to detect when a patient is about to fall in order to alert staff.[8]

Film career

Toleti made his acting debut as a child artist in the Telugu film Sagara Sangamam directed by K. Viswanath, and has acted in over fifteen films. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Film and VFX at the University of Central Florida. He re-entered south Indian cinema with the magnum opus, Dasavathaaram. In 2019, he directed two remake films of the Mike Flanagan slasher film Hush: the Hindi Khamoshi, and the Tamil Kolaiyuthir Kaalam.

As director
List of films directed
Year Title Actors Language Notes
2009 Unnaipol Oruvan Kamal Haasan, Mohanlal, Venkatesh Daggubati Tamil
2009 Eeenadu Telugu
2012 Billa II Ajith Kumar Tamil
2013 Vishwaroopam Kamal Haasan Tamil Co-written
2018 Welcome to New York Sonakshi Sinha, Diljit Dosanjh Hindi
Vishwaroopam 2 Kamal Haasan Tamil Co-written
2019 Khamoshi Tamannaah, Prabhu Deva Remakes of Hush
2019 Kolaiyuthir Kaalam Nayantara Tamil

As actor
List of films and roles
Year Title Role Language Notes
1983 Sagara Sangamam Photographer Assistant Telugu Child actor
1985 Chinna Veedu Chakravarthi Tamil
1985 Mayuri Brother of Mayuri Telugu
2008 Dasavathaaram Sairam Tamil
2012 Billa 2 Gangster

References
  1. Soderstrom, Alex. "Health care AI firm to double its national reach & add jobs this year. Here's how". Orlando Business Journal. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  2. Toleti, Chakri. "Forbes Business Profile". Forbes. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  3. "Billa 2 - 25 days box office collection". Tamilcinema24. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  4. "A Wednesday's Tamil teaser trailer out". Times of India. 11 April 2009. p. 1. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  5. "Review : (2012)". Sify. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  6. Toleti, Chakri. "Forbes Business Profile". Forbes. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  7. Konam, Sandeep; Elwyn, Glyn. "HEALTH TECH Industry Voices—For AI to truly transform healthcare, we have to focus on patients". Fierce Healthcare. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  8. Knowles, Summer (18 May 2023). "How AI is being used in health care in Central Florida". WESH.
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