Vijay Eswaran, Executive Chairman and founder of the QI Group of Companies, has an impressive list of accomplishments. He founded QNET, a network marketing company, in 1998 and steadily built that company into the foundation of the QI Group, a multi-national conglomerate of subsidiary businesses across numerous fields.

QI Group expanded into over 30 countries and has business ventures in such fields as lifestyle, education, travel, hospitality, technology, and entrepreneurship with over 1,500 employees. Eswaran and QI Group partnered with the State Government of Perak, in Malaysia, and founded Quest International University Perak.

Vijay Eswaran also founded the RYTHM Foundation and, along with his wife Umayal, the Vijayaratnam Foundation, the Malaysian arm of RYTHM. RHYTHM is an acronym for the foundation’s slogan, “Raise Yourself To Help Mankind.” These philanthropic endeavors likely heavily contributed to Eswaran’s inclusion on Forbes Asia’s list of Heroes of Philanthropy.

Gender Equality

As one of the central tenets of the RYTHM Foundation, gender equality also plays a large role throughout all of QI Group. In an interview with Forbes, Eswaran touted QI Groups gender ratio, stating that overall employees are 46 percent female, management personnel are 43 percent female, and, across all subsidiaries, C-level employees are 40 percent female. The Board itself is 30 percent female.

In an era where equality is at the forefront of the media cycle, those are impressive numbers, and Eswaran is committed to pushing them even higher. QI Group offers a number of training programs for leadership that are heavily attended by female employees and their foundation offers a mentoring program in disadvantaged communities to help females break out from the poverty cycle.

Instead of just paying lip service to an issue as important as gender equality, Vijay Eswaran and QI Group have truly embraced the concept and are making impressive strides towards true equity. Read more: https://www.vijayeswaran.com/vijay-eswaran-faqs/