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Kumar Malavalli
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Kumar Malavalli is an Indian American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] In 1995, he founded Brocade Communications Systems with Paul Bonderson Jr. He currently serves as chairman of C3DNA Inc. and as a partner at VKRM Services, a boutique investment firm.[2][7] He has also served on the boards of the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Fibre Channel Industry Association.[10][11]
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Malavalli was presented with an honorary doctor of science degree by California State University, East Bay in 2013.[7] The Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research at the University of California Santa Cruz's Jack Baskin School of Engineering was established in 2004 following a $1 million donation from Malavalli.[7][12][13] Professor Darrell Long currently holds the Kumar Malavalli Chair.[13]
Malavalli is a member of the Silicon Valley Hall Engineering Hall of Fame.[6][14]
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Early life and education
Malavalli was born in early March 1943 in Mysore, Karnataka, India.[citation needed] He moved to Düsseldorf, Germany in 1972 following his graduation from the National Institute of Engineering with a bachelor's degree in engineering.[12] After graduating from the Institute of Engineering in Düsseldorf with a master's degree in industrial electronics, Malavalli moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[12]
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In Toronto, Malavalli worked for Canstar Communications’ fibre channel group, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.[12] While at Hewlett-Packard, he served on American National Standards Institute's T11 Technical Committee, which established universal standards for fibre channel.[10][13][15]
Malavalli co-founded Brocade Communications, a producer of storage area networks, with Paul Bonderson, Jr. in 1995.[1][3][4][16] Brocade launched in 1998 and went public in May 1999, and its CEO was convicted for illegal backdating of options in January 2008.[citation needed] In addition to being a co-founder, Malavalli served as CTO of Brocade.[17]
In 2001, Malavalli co-founded InMage, an independent software company.[2][9][17]
He was awarded the International Committee for Information Technology Standards’ 2002 Gene Milligan Award for his work chairing an INCITS committee, which developed 17 standards for storage area networks.[10][18][19]
In 2003, Malavalli became the first Indian member of the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.[6][14]
Malavalli co-founded Glassbeam, a software-as-a-service vendor, in 2009 with Puneet Pandit.[20] He also serves as chairman of the company.[20]
Malavalli was appointed InMage CEO in 2011.[2][9]
Other companies whose boards Malavalli has served on include CryptoMill Technologies and LeadFormix (then-known as LeadForce1).[21][22] He was also an investor in Edurite Technologies, which was later acquired by Pearson Education.[23][24]
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Philanthropy
In 2004, Malavalli donated $1 million toward the creation of the University of California at Santa Cruz’s endowed Kumar Malavalli Chair in Storage Systems Research.[7][12][13] He is also a benefactor of Stanford University’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, with donations totaling over $500,000.[25]
Malavalli is a co-founder and trustee of the Indus Trust, which builds schools that are not affordable by the middle class population of India.[4][8][15] Hindu BL, The Indus Trust is headed by Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray.[4][8][15][26] He is also the principle investor of TeleVital, a company that provides telemedicine services to rural areas in India.[1][27]
Malavalli is the chairman and a funder of the India Community Center in Milpitas, California.[5][28][29] He also serves as a trustee of the American India Foundation and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.[12][30][31] He sits on the board of The Indus Entrepreneurs’ Silicon Valley Chapter and the San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative.[13][32][33]
In 2013, Malavalli was awarded the Immigrant Heritage Award for his philanthropic work in the United States and India.[34]
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