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	Kanwal Rekhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kanwal was born in Rawalpindi (then in British India, now in Pakistan) in 1945.
		Kanwal is also involved in increasing the visibility of premier educational institutions in India.
		Kanwal was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1987 by the Arthur-Young/Venture magazine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanwal_Rekhi (315 words)

	Kanwal Rekhi – Sage of Silicon Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Excelan went public in 1987 and merged with Novell, the networking major in 1989, in a record of sorts, Rekhi became the first Indian to be on the board of a billion-dollar multinational infotech company.
		Kanwal was the third of eight children of an Indian army officer.
		Kanwal is also on the board of Community Foundation of the Silicon Valley.
	www.namasthenri.com /NRIoftheweek/kanwalrekhi.htm (882 words)

	rediff.com US edition: Kanwal Rekhi takes up immigration issue
		Kanwal Rekhi is a legend in Silicon Valley, for his inspired generosity as an angel investor, his mentorship to young Indian entrepreneurs, and for the charismatic leadership he provided to help make The Indus Entrepreneurs a global phenomenon.
		Rekhi was quick to tell him that he couldn't help; Devarakonda was seeking funds to jump-start his advocacy group.
		Rekhi said it is stories like these that are invaluable contributions to the US economy and its society that immigrants bring, and should be recognized.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/apr/28us1.htm (1205 words)

	Sage of the New Age - ITpeople - Issue dtd : 11th October 2004
		Rekhi was inspired by the entrepreneurs and soon he along with two colleagues resigned from their respective jobs, and started their own company, Excelan.
		After a host of achievements, Rekhi had nothing else to prove and by the year 1994, he was thinking that he was ready to retire as he had worked for close to 25 years nonstop.
		Rekhi gave a $2 million grant to set up the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology (Kresit), which is emerging as a small hotbed of technology start-ups in the IIT Bombay campus.
	www.expressitpeople.com /20041011/people1.shtml (1242 words)

	Center for Entrepreneurial Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kanwal was one of the founders of Excelan, a computer networking company he helped start in 1982.
		Kanwal stayed with and joined the Board of Directors of Novell and was named an executive vice-president and the Chief Technology Officer of the company.
		Kanwal came to the Silicon Valley as one of the pioneering Indians in 1971.
	ced.business.uiuc.edu /Speakers/2004/KanwalRekhi (304 words)

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		Kanwal Rekhi was born in 1945 in Rawalpindi the third of eight children of an Indian army officer.
		Kanwal was 41 he was a year late, but he had basically kept his promise to Ann.
		Kanwal, who is well off enough that he never has to make another dime in his life, says he's looking to be paid in another way.
	www.asianpacificfund.org /awards/bio_rekhi.shtml (1460 words)

	Sons of the soil take Valley
		Kanwal Rekhi went to the US in 1967 to do his masters in electrical engineering at the Michigan Technological University.
		Kanwal Rekhi was instrumental in nurturing entrepreneurs with a touch of philosophy and an emphasis on meritocracy.
		Kanwal Rekhi forced out the founder of the company, Unni Warrier and became the CEO of CyberMedia, which was later purchased by Network Associates.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19991116/ffe16007.html (1184 words)

	CareerMosaicIndia.com - IndiaTalent
		Kanwal Rekhi, a Sikh by religion, though “without a turban,” as he puts it, was part of the exodus of refugees from Pakistan after the partition of India.
		Rekhi joined Novell but quit after he was passed over for the post of chief executive in favor of Robert Frankenberg.
		Rekhi is the president of the IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals that has often been termed the “Indian Mafia”, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs.
	www.careermosaicindia.com /JS/CRC/IndianTalent/Italent_K.htm (860 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Kanwal Rekhi
		Rekhi is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay with an MS and PhD from Michigan Technological University.
		Rekhi stayed with and joined the board of directors of Novell and was named an executive vice president and the chief technology officer of the company.
		Kanwal was one of the original founders of Excelan, a computer networking company founded in 1982, where he was named President and CEO in 1985.
	www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=2489602 (2814 words)

	LOVE FOR ALMA MATER OR RIDING PIGGYBACK TO GLORY
		Kanwal Rekhi is a typical example of such an American of Indian origin.
		Kanwal Rekhi was not giving away money as a sense of duty or obligation.
		Kanwal Rekhi became the new role model for students of IIT Bombay.
	www.samarthbharat.com /donations.htm (1441 words)

	rediff.com: Chat Transcript: Kanwal Rekhi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kanwal Rekhi : I have given it 5 years and they have been wonderful 5 years.Tie has to be bigger than any of us and it is time for others to add their perspective.
		Rekhi, I have heard that you were also laid-off and had to move from Florida to California.
		Kanwal Rekhi : Define social activities.I have chosen not to be a deal oriented in India and as a result not focused on companies.
	www.rediff.com /chat/trans/0625rekh.htm (5419 words)

	CNN Interactive Chat Transcript
		Kanwal Rekhi graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai and received a master's degree in engineering from Michigan Technology University.
		Kanwal Rekhi: The IIT was conceived in the 1940s when India was on the threshold of achieving independence.
		Kanwal Rekhi: The point I want to make is that IITs have shown that Indians, when properly educated, can compete with the best and the brightest in the world.
	www.cnn.com /chat/transcripts/2000/8/24/rekhi (1735 words)

	Y-Point, the IIT Bombay webZINE : Interview
		Kanwal endures the ragging - and in hindsight as he speaks about it - has a faint smile on his face as he mentions the experience.
		Kanwal had promised his wife that they would be "rich" by the time he was 40.
		The good news was that Kanwal had found the cause, the bad news was that the cure was a long-term, painful one.
	www.iitbombay.org /info/ypoint/y-inter1.htm (1673 words)

	TiE Mumbai
		Kanwal Rekhi, 53, has been at the forefront for creating entrepreneurs.
		But what is he known for today is not so much, what he accomplished himself, but what he has accomplished in nurturing, guiding and investing in other entrepreneurs.
		Kanwal is on the board of Community Foundation of the Silicon Valley.
	www.tiemumbai.org /kanwal_rekhi.htm (404 words)

	ISP-Planet - Webhosting - A New CEO for Ensim
		Rekhi will bring a business focus to a company that has not made as much out of its technology as it might have.
		In addition, Rekhi says that parts of the Ensim package that were part of a bundle may be unbundled and sold or licensed to other product developers.
		Rekhi, who is close to the pulse of Silicon Valley, is optimistic about the possibilities at the end of the bubble.
	www.isp-planet.com /hosting/2002/rekhi.html (923 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kanwal remained with Novell and became a member of the Board of Directors.
		Since 1994, Kanwal Rekhi has been a mentor to and investor in early-stage technology companies.
		Kanwal is also a former president of TiE, a non-profit organization based in Silicon Valley that promotes entrepreneurship among the Indus people.
	www.tieindia.org /Profile.doc (235 words)

	Kanwal Rekhi
		In 1994, Kanwal was named to the Board of advisor to the President of Michigan...
		From left, Kanwal Rekhi, a pioneering Silicon Valley entrepreneur, was the keynote speaker at the TiE Tristate networking evening on March 15, at the Asia Society in...
		Rekhi is well known in Silicon Valley as a highly accomplished entrepreneur and an angel/venture investor actively focused on helping young entrepreneurs build great...
	mycollectibles.kaboodle.com /mach/Kanwal-Rekhi.html (314 words)

	Who Donates to Michigan Tech?
		Kanwal Rekhi, a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and an immigrant from India, graduated from Michigan Tech in 1969 with a master's degree in electrical engineering.
		In 1982, Kanwal founded and was President and CEO of Excelan, a pioneering computer networking company and one of the first to commercially develop the TCP/IP protocol.
		Kanwal devotes much of his time to his role as chairman of TiE, promoting it as Talent, Ideas, and Enterprise.
	www.mtf.mtu.edu /giving/whogives.php?donr_id=229 (332 words)

	DEBATE ABOUT LOVE FOR ALMA MATER OR RIDING PIGGYBACK TO GLORY
		Similarly, when I argue against holding out Kanwal Rekhi and Nandan Nilekani (or such other multi-millionaires) as role models, it is not out of a sense of disrespect to them.
		people like kanwal rekhi and others who have donated money with preconditions like opening of a school in their name and spending money by their wish only shows that by glaring some bucks they want to rule over Govt.
		Rekhi, but I don't think this and the subsequent paragraphs are in the right spirit.
	www.samarthbharat.com /donationcomment.htm (4637 words)

	Sage of Silicon Valley - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rekhi was not lucky when he started out in his career.
		Rekhi realised what the venture capitalists actually meant was he did not have a white man on the board, but he never got bogged down by such observations.
		Rekhi joined the infotech group as its CTO and led Novell's 1993 acquisition of the UNIX operating system from AT&T. But he quit his job in Novell when he was passed over for the post of chief executive in favour of Robert Frankenberg.
	sify.com /finance/nri/fullstory.php?id=13206046&vsv=72 (818 words)

	Agents of Change - Indian-Americans in the Silicon Valley give back to India
		Kanwal Rekhi acknowledges the headaches, but has little patience with that as an excuse for doing nothing.
		Rekhi is very conscious of this and says when IIT Bombay named its new IT school the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, he protested against "this kind of personality cult.
		This is why Kanwal Rekhi believes that Indian entrepreneurs should set apart $1 million a year for India study programs like a chair for India studies at University of California, Santa Cruz.
	www.blumbergcapital.com /press/story_28.htm (2971 words)

	Himal South Asian-August-2000
		And in the thick of all this is Kanwal Rekhi, godfather of Cyberyuga and President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE, a network of almost 400 desi Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, founded in 1993).
		Kanwal Rekhi has no time for the minutiae of public policy, because this big thinker believes that India lacks Thoughts and the Entrepreneurial Spirit.
		Rekhi considers his firm, The Indus Entrepreneur, to be the “epitome of free enterprise spirit of Silicon Valley”, and his aim is to start chapters of this “entrepreneur incubator initiative” across India.
	www.himalmag.com /march2001/opinion.html (1225 words)

	ECE News: Kanwal Rekhi
		Kanwal Rekhi tells grads that a degree is not a ticket to security, a degree means you have the knowledge and skill to get through adversity and difficulties.
		Kanwal became executive vice president and led the firm’s product development and technology strategies, including Novell’s UNIX systems group.
		Kanwal has received the Board of Control Silver Medal and an honorary Doctorate in Business and Engineering.
	www.ece.mtu.edu /pages/news/Kanwal_Rekhi_Apr_2005.htm (343 words)

	News Updates - 15 May 2000
		Rekhi, who sold his company, Excelan, to Novell in 1989 for $210 million (which was, at the time, believe it or not, a lot of money), doesn't strike the slick pose Brando assumed as Don Corleone.
		Rekhi's gray hair is always slightly disheveled, and befitting his background as an engineer, he comes off as disarmingly rumpled.
		Says Rekhi: "He thought he could fund one business from the other, but I told him that almost never works." Rekhi gave Chandra the $200,000 he wanted, but told him he needed to focus on one thing and suggested it be hosting other people's Websites.
	www.diehardindian.com /news/news1505.htm (4003 words)

	MTU--Rekhis Give $5 Million (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kanwal Rekhi, a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and an immigrant from India, is a graduate of Michigan Tech, where he earned a master's in electrical engineering in 1969.
		"Kanwal is a visionary leader in the software industry and having the Rekhi name on campus is an honor for the University.
		Rekhi received Michigan Tech's Distinguished Service Award in 1994 and an honorary doctorate in science in 1997.
	www.admin.mtu.edu /urel/breaking/2000/rekhi.html (408 words)

	Novell Announces Departure of Kanwal Rekhi from Board of Directors
		Rekhi, who retired from full-time responsibilities as Novell executive vice president in January, is leaving the board to pursue a variety of other interests.
		Rekhi had served on the board of directors since joining Novell in 1989 through its merger with Excelan, Inc, where he was a co-founder, president and CEO.
		"Kanwal's leadership has been instrumental in moving Novell beyond its PC networking origins to encompass the world of heterogenous networks, UNIX Systems, and the Internet," said Robert J. Frankenberg, Novell chairman and CEO.
	www.novell.com /news/press/archive/1995/09/pr00212.html (194 words)

	The Sikh Times - Biographies - Kanwal Rekhi: Fomer Novell C.T.O. Takes Helm At Ensim
		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.
		Rekhi, 56, is referred to as 'Uncle' by the thousands of Indian techies based in Silicon Valley, a term of respect he earned after becoming the first Indian to take a company public on the New York Stock Exchange.
		For Rekhi, his slimming down from his 279-pound former self this past summer said something about the valley's direction.
	www.sikhtimes.com /bios_120602a.html (521 words)

	IITBHF and IITBAA (http://www.iitbombay.org)
		The story of Kanwal Rekhi doggedly fighting - earlier in Excelan, which he had founded, and then in Novell - to be the CEO is too well known.
		Kanwal Rekhi carries a very simple visiting card, which describes him as president, TIE, and gives his office address as the TIE office at Santa Clara.
		Kanwal's family migrated to India as refugees during the Partition, but he has overcome those scars and is one of the strongest proponents of TIE becoming a network to promote entrepreneurship among all nationalities of the sub- continent.
	www.iitbombay.org /misc/press/busindia01.htm (9202 words)

	CRN \| Fomer Novell CTO Takes Helm
		Kanwal Rekhi came out of retirement this week to become CEO of Web hosting automation software vendor Ensim.
		Rekhi retired from his position as CTO of Novell in 1994.
		Rekhi's customer-first policy is not an empty promise from a newly appointed CEO, said Demian Sellfors, CTO of Web hosting and design provider MediaTemple, Los Angeles.
	www.crn.com /sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml;jsessionid=W5INBGMYCPQ0OQSNDBOCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleId=18822202&_requestid=2187166 (582 words)

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