Kumar Malavalli
Kumar Malavalli | |
---|---|
File:Mr Malavalli 1 FINAL.jpg | |
Born | Kumar Malavalli February 9, 1943 Mysore, Karnataka, India |
Residence | Los Altos Hills, California, US |
Alma mater | The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore India Cal State East Bay Honorary Doctorate of Science |
Occupation | Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of InMage Co-founder, CTO Brocade Communications |
Board member of | Glassbeam, Inc. AlephCloud InMage Inc. |
Spouse(s) | Vijayalakshmi Malavalli |
Children | Ranjini Malavalli |
Parent(s) |
|
Relatives | Dr. Seetharam Malavalli Dr. Shivaram Malavalli |
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 and CEO of InMage Systems 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]
Malavalli was presented with an honorary doctor of science degree by California State University, East Bay in 2013.[7] The Kumar Mavalli 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 Mavalli Chair.[13]
Malavalli is a member of the Silicon Valley Hall Engineering Hall of Fame.[6][14]
Early life and education
Malavalli was born in Mysore, Karnataka, India.[15] 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 in industrial electronics, Malavalli moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[12][15]
Career
Following his hopes and dreams to 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][16]
Malavalli co-founded Brocade Communications, a producer of storage area networks, with Paul Bonderson, Jr. in 1995.[1][3][4][17] Brocade launched in 1998 and went public in May 1999.[15] In addition to being a co-founder, Malavalli served as CTO of Brocade.[18]
In 2001, Malavalli co-founded InMage, an independent software company.[2][9][18]
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][19][20]
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.[21][22] He also serves as chairman of the company.[22]
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).[23][24] He was also an investor in Edurite Technologies, which was later acquired by Pearson Education.[25][26]
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 thousand.[27]
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][16] Hindu BL, The Indus Trust is headed by Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray.[4][8][16][28] He is also the principle investor of TeleVital, a company that provides telemedicine services to rural areas in India.[1][29]
Malavalli is the chairman and a funder of the India Community Center in Milpitas, California.[5][6][30] He also serves as a trustee of the American India Foundation and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.[12][31][32] He sits on the board of The Indus Entrepreneurs’ Silicon Valley Chapter and the San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative.[13][33][34]
In 2013, Malavalli was awarded the Immigrant Heritage Award for his philanthropic work in the United States and India.[35]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>
tag; name "The_Economic_Times" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.