By MATT MARSHALL Kanwal Rekhi was born to Sikh parents in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in 1945, and moved with his family to Kanpur, India at the time of partition, in 1947. He is married to Ann Holt. They have two grown children. He...
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By MATT MARSHALL Kanwal Rekhi was born to Sikh parents in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in 1945, and moved with his family to Kanpur, India at the time of partition, in 1947. He is married to Ann Holt. They have two grown children. He moved to the U.S. in 1967 and now lives in Monte Sereno, California. He studied electrical engineering at I.I.T. (Mumbai, India) and Michigan Technical University. In the 1980s, Kanwal helped pioneer the commercialization of the TCP/IP protocol, on which the Internet is built. In 1987, he hit the jackpot with his start-up, Excelan (founded in 1982), when he took it public. As Novell's C.T.O., he led their acquisition of the Unix operating system from AT&T. He later went on to become worth about $500m. On leaving Novell, he formed The IndUS Entrepreneurs (T.i.E.), a venture fund and support organization for entrepreneurs of Indian descent. He has invested in more than 45 start-ups. Observers have nicknamed him the 'Godfather,' the man to see in the Valley's Indian community.
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