Vivek Wadhwa

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Vivek Wadhwa is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and academic.

Career

At Credit Suisse First Boston, Wadhwa led the development of a computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tool to develop client-server model software. First Boston spent $150 million on these development efforts. The CASE technology was spun off by First Boston into Seer Technologies in 1990 with an investment of $20 million by IBM.[1] Seer Technologies filed for an IPO in May 1995.[2] Vivek Wadhwa had to build a second career in Academics after he suffered a heart attack.[3]

Wadhwa is Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University;[4] an executive-in-residence/adjunct professor at the Masters of Engineering Management Program[5] and Director of Research at the Center for Research Commercialization at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering;[6] a fellow at Stanford University's Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Halle Institute for Global Learning, at Emory University.[7] He has been a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program [8] and a visiting professor at the School of Information, at the University of California, Berkeley.[9] He writes a regular column for The Washington Post,[10] Bloomberg BusinessWeek,[11] the American Society of Engineering Education's Prism Magazine,[12][13][14][15] and Forbes, and has written for Foreign Policy[16] and TechCrunch.[17] He is also the author of the 2012 non-fiction book The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent.[18]

Awards and honors

In 1999, Wadhwa was named a "leader of tomorrow" by Forbes magazine.[19]

In February 2012, Wadhwa was one of the six "2012 Outstanding American by Choice" recipients, a distinction awarded by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.[20]

In December 2012, Wadhwa was recognized by Foreign Policy magazine as a Top 100 Global Thinker.[21]

In June 2013, Wadhwa was named to Time magazine's list of the Top 40 Most Influential Minds in Tech.[22]

References

  1. ↑ Srikumar S. Rao, 11.13.00. "Cracking The Code". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  2. ↑ "Seer Technologies Files For Initial Public Offering. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. 1995-05-09. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  3. ↑ Chris Pyak, 05.08.13. "Interview with Vivek Wadhwa". Immigrantspirit.com. Retrieved 2013-10-17. 
  4. ↑ "Singularity University | Management". Singularityu.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  5. ↑ "Project Team :: Global Engineering and Entrepreneurship @ Duke". Soc.duke.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  6. ↑ "Vivek Wadhwa | Master of Engineering Management". Memp.pratt.duke.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  7. ↑ "Vivek Wadhwa". Halleinstitute.emory.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  8. ↑ "LWP Staff: Vivek Wadhwa". Law.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  9. ↑ "Vivek Wadhwa | School of Information". Ischool.berkeley.edu. 2012-04-10. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  10. ↑ "Vivek Wadhwa". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  11. ↑ "Vivek Wadhwa". Businessweek. 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  12. ↑ Engineering Our Health, March 2012
  13. ↑ "ASEE PRISM - SEPTEMBER 2011 - LEADING EDGE". Prism-magazine.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  14. ↑ "ASEE PRISM - SUMMER 2006 - LAST WORD: The Real Numbers - By Vivek Wadhwa". Prism-magazine.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  15. ↑ "ASEE PRISM - DECEMBER 2011 - LEADING EDGE". Prism-magazine.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  16. ↑ "Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch - By Vivek Wadhwa". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  17. ↑ "Vivek Wadhwa Posts on TechCrunch". Crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  18. ↑ "Preventing Silicon Valley's 'Immigrant Exodus'". NPR. October 5, 2012. 
  19. ↑ "The leaders of tomorrow". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  20. ↑ "USCIS - 2012 Outstanding American by Choice Recipients". Uscis.gov. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  21. ↑ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers
  22. ↑ http://business.time.com/2013/05/01/time-tech-40-the-ten-most-influential-tech-ceos/slide/vivek-wadhwa-singularity-university/

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