Kanwal rekhi biography sample

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          Kanwal Rekhi

          Indian-American businessman (born 1945)

          Kanwal Singh Rekhi (born August 29, 1945) (Punjabi : ਕੰਵਲ ਰੇਖੀ) is an Indian-American businessman.

          Kanwal Rekhi co-founded Excelan Inc. in January with Dr. Inder Singh and Navindra Jain.

        1. Kanwal Rekhi co-founded Excelan Inc. in January with Dr. Inder Singh and Navindra Jain.
        2. After studying at IIT Bombay, Rekhi completed his graduate studies at Michigan Tech and moved to San Jose in , where he co-founded Excelan.
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        4. I arrived in US on my 22nd birthday (August 29th) in I had just graduated from IIT Bombay with a fresh degree in Electrical.
        5. Kanwal was the first Silicon Valley Indo-American Founder & CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ (Excelan: NASDAQ).

          6. He was the first Indian-American founder and CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.[2]

          Career

          Rekhi had worked as an engineer, systems analyst, and manager before venturing into entrepreneurship.

          At the age of 36, he moved to San Jose, California and co-founded Excelan in 1982, a manufacturer of smart Ethernet components, and was named president and CEO in 1985.[citation needed] The company went public on the Nasdaq in 1987, and merged with Novell in 1989.

          He remained at Novell as an executive vice-president and the -chief technology officer of the company, later joining the board of directors.[citation needed] Rekhi retired from Novell in 1995.[3] After leaving Novell, he was the CEO at CyberMedia[citation needed] from January 1