Srikanth Bolla is an Indian industrialist and the founder Chairman of Bollant Industries. He was the first international visually-impaired student in Management Science at the Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bolla co-founded Samanvai Center for Children with Multiple Disabilities in 2011 in which he started a Braille printing press, providing educational, vocational, financial, and rehabilitation services to students with multiple disabilities for an economically independent and self-sustainable life.
In 2012, Bolla started Bollant Industries with co-founder Ravi Mantha. Bollant Industries manufactures areca-based products and provides employment to several hundred people with disabilities, with funding from Ratan Tata. Addressing a combination of issues – employment, economics and environment – Bollant produces eco-friendly recycled Kraft paper from municipal waste or soiled paper, packaging products from recycled paper, disposable products from natural leaf and recycled paper and recycles waste plastic into usable products. Bollant has shown exceptional growth, averaging 20% a month since inception and a turnover of ₹ 150 cr in 2018.
Srikanth is the director of Surge Impact Foundation, founded in September 2016. The organisation aims to enable individuals and institutions in India to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
In April 2017, Bolla was named by Forbes magazine in its list of 30 under 30 across all of Asia, one of only three Indians on that list.
In 2022, a biopic film Srikanth, featuring Rajkummar Rao in the lead role of Srikanth Bolla was announced. The trailer was released on 9th April, 2024. During trailer launch, Srikanth who was also present remembered how the T-Series cassettes helped him complete his education from class 5 to class 10. The film was released on May 10, 2024 on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya.