Iggy Ignatius

Iggy Ignatius was born in Chennai, formerly known as Madras, in the state of Tami Nadu in southern India. Chennai is known as the Detroit of India as all major automobile manufacturers are located there. It was also here that the British started their East India Company more than 200 years ago before they ruled India.
Iggy attended elementary school in Bombay which is now Mumbai. He studied engineering in college at Birla Institute of Technology & Science in Pilani, India, one of the leading universities collaborating with MIT. Then he came to the US and received an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a major in Marketing.
Iggy began his career working for a private consulting company and thereafter he primarily consulted for American Express, Citibank, General Motors, and Centex Homes.
In 2008, Iggy founded Shantiniketan and is currently developing its third phase. He and his wife built a home across the street from development and are living there.
His interests include gardening, making YouTube videos, and film-making. Iggy says he is a spiritual minimalist and believes in giving back to the community in terms of money and time.