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Allirajah Subaskaran is the group chairman and founder of Lyca Group, a company he created with the vision of enabling people to connect with family and friends irrespective of how far they venture from home. In seeking out leaders for his business, Allirajah Subashkaran does so with a keen emphasis on ambition and family, engaging talented and committed leaders capable of building on the company’s pedigree of creating meaningful customer experiences across the globe.
Lyca Group was founded on the entrepreneurial spirit of delivering exceptional customer experiences by challenging the norm. This vision forms an intrinsic part of Lyca Group’s DNA, guiding the company’s exciting evolution into a new era of game-changing digital-first services and products.
Founded with the values of trust, entrepreneurial, digital and speed, Lyca Group is determined to act with courage, demonstrating the resilience necessary to consistently deliver for customers around the world. The company is clear, straightforward and transparent in all of its activities with customers, stakeholders and the wider community.
Bringing together a range of digital experiences that delight and enthral, Lyca Group is a digital-first business that places an emphasis on speed and agility, acting fast to achieve the goals necessary to deliver an unparalleled level of service to its clients.
Lyca Mobile operates with an emphasis on customer experience, while maintaining a highly agile, value-driven approach, enabling the company to deliver to the highest standard. Lyca strives to deliver meaningful customer experiences by providing exceptional digital-first content and services.
Allirajah Subaskaran founded Lyca Mobile in 2006 with the overriding objective of ensuring that no matter how far people travel they can still connect with family and friends across the globe. Mr Subaskaran achieved this vision, enabling Lyca Mobile customers to share meaningful connections no matter how great the physical distance between them.
Over the years, Lyca Group has evolved considerably, today incorporating 16 subsidiary companies spanning a variety of different industries, including telecommunications, technology, media and entertainment, healthcare, travel, hospitality, marketing and financial services.
Lyca Group’s subsidiaries consist of:
Lyca Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator that offers national calls, mobile data and texts, as well as supporting international calls across multiple continents
Lyca Remit, an online money transfer service that enables customers to send money to family and friends across more than 70 countries
Lyca Digital, a digital marketing agency that offers a variety of digital services across the United States, Australia and Europe
Lyca Health, a private medical service based in the United Kingdom that offers rapid diagnoses, personal care, physiotherapy and walk-in GP services
Lyca Productions, a leading pan India entertainment company that specialises in producing and distributing features films in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and other Indian languages
Lyca Insure, a company operating in the financial services sector, providing insurance for white label products across travel, life, motor and gadget insurance
Lyca Fly, a travel agency based in the United Kingdom that specialises in bespoke holiday solutions tailored to the individual travel needs and budget of each customer
Lyca Radio, a London-based radio station that specialises in contemporary Bhangra, Bollywood and Urban Asian music, as well as staging celebrity interviews and sharing the latest entertainment news
Athavan TV, a 24-hour television channel based in the UK that presents the global Tamil community with entertainment programming, new films, soap operas, live news and coverage of Tamil cultural events
Athavan News, a UK-based news station that provides the global Tamil community with the latest news stories
Athavan Radio, an infotainment digital radio station based in the UK that is dedicated to providing the global Tamil community with engaging programming, new music and live news
Time 107.5, a UK-based radio station that plays classic music from the 1960s to the present day
Lyca Gold, the United Kingdom’s first and only retro Asian radio station specialising in Punjabi and Urdu music from yesteryear along with Bollywood classics
Docklands DC, a data centre based in London Docklands that provides more than 23,000 square feet of technical space
Manjal, a fine-dining restaurant specialising in North and South India cuisine
Bella Cosa, an authentic Italian restaurant overlooking South Dock, London
The next stage of Lyca Group’s evolution signifies the company’s ongoing commitment to bold innovation, providing customers with exceptional new experiences. By embracing new technological advancements and faster, more agile working practices, Lyca Group can be even more ambitious, delivering still more meaningful customer-first services and products in a rapidly changing, increasingly digitised environment.
Unveiling his plans for a new era for Lyca Group, group chairman and founder Allirajah Subaskaran said he was thrilled to announce Lyca Group’s exciting leap forward into a future of digital-first customer experiences. Built on innovation, the company is powerfully upgrading its suite of digital services, harnessing new technologies and offering new opportunities to keep customers around the world connected in ways that inspire and delight.
