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Inspiring journey of Kanmani Dhanasekar: From Ed Consultancy to Rs 30 Cr business

Kanmani Dhanasekar founded Indo Canada Student Services Inc in 2016 with CAD 3 lakh. She moved to Canada with her family in 2010, leaving a well-paying career behind.

Kanmani Dhanasekar, 52, is a Chennai native who came to Canada in 2010 for personal reasons with her husband and two young kids. She began in Toronto, washing dishes and restrooms to support her family. With a CAD 3 lakh investment, she founded Indo Canada Student Services Inc. in 2016, an education consultant for international students desiring to pursue higher education in Canadian universities (Rs 1.8 lakh). She established a catering firm last year, and the aggregate revenue of her enterprises has already surpassed CAD 5 million (Rs 30.50 crore). Kanmani hails from a normal household in Chennai, where her father worked for Indian Railways and her mother was a PUC gold winner.

Kanmani excelled in both academics and athletics, and she was an athlete who competed in the 100m, 200m, and relays for her school. She enrolled in B.Sc Physics at Women’s Christian College (WCC) in Chennai in 1991, when she met the principal on her own. She married her spouse, who was studying French at the adjacent Alliance Francaise College, in her second year. Kanmani graduated and subsequently enrolled in Madras University’s Masters programme in Political Philosophy and Public Affairs in 1994. She subsequently began her career as a customer service professional at Khivraj Motors, a Maruti dealer in Chennai, earning Rs 2,000 per month.

She moved to Canada with her family in 2010 and worked for a Starbucks franchise, where she was in charge of employee training, inventory, and sales management. In 2015, she joined a Toronto-based educational counselling firm before launching ‘Indo Canada Student Services Ltd.’ in 2016. Last year, she created ‘Mr.Saambhaarr,’ a take-out and catering business from her house, aimed at Indian students in Canada who crave home cooking. Kanmani is a Member Advisor at the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce and the President of the South India Chamber of Commerce in Toronto, where she represents Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. In 2018, she headed a Canadian trade delegation to Vibrant Tamil Nadu, where she was one of 13 speakers from 40 nations.

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