Avinash Kaul
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Avinash Kaul

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At seventeen, Avinash Kaul lost his home. At thirty-six, he became a CEO. At fifty-three, he stepped away from the boardroom to tell the story of everything in between. That story became The Next Mountain: a deeply personal memoir about resilience, leadership and purpose for anyone still climbing their own mountain.

He left Kashmir on the night of 19 January 1990. His father put him on a crowded bus out of the city, and he rode on the engine bonnet because there were no seats left, the metal burning through his clothes in the freezing night air. By dawn, he was a refugee. In Jammu, he slept in a neighbour’s garage, stood in a refugee registration line for his family’s ration of rice, and studied in a makeshift government school housed in tents.

From there, he completed his engineering degree, graduating at the top of his class, before earning an MBA from Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. Over the next three decades, he built a career in Indian media across J. Walter Thompson (HTA), Discovery Communications, Star, NDTV, Times Television and Network18, and was a CEO for sixteen years. He most recently served as CEO, Network18 (Broadcast & Publishing), and Managing Director, A+E Networks | TV18.

The Next Mountain: Notes on Resilience, Leadership and Purpose (HarperCollins), written with Priya Kumar, is the story of that climb. The ideas in the book were not borrowed from theories or learned in classrooms. They began on school climbing camps in the mountains of Kashmir, where preparation mattered, teamwork mattered and ego did not. Life tested those lessons over the decades that followed.

Today, Avinash speaks, writes and advises on resilience, leadership and purpose, for leadership teams, boards and founders. He lives in Mumbai with his family.

Everything in this book, he lived first.
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