WASHINGTON: He was born in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, shifted to the US when he was just 15 and now lives in a 40,000-square-foot mansion that has a five-bedroom guest house and a backyard tea house along with reflecting pools on nine acres in Potomac, Maryland, a house that took six years to build.

After realising the American dream, Frank Islam, an India-born entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist who is said to be worth $300 million, is now 'investing' in the education sector in both the land of his birth and his adopted home.

"The investment is in the future of America and the American dream and in India as well," said Frank Islam, who came from India as a 15-year old kid, set up the QSS Group, an information technology firm, in 1994, and sold it in 2007 after raising its revenues to over $300 million.

Today Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh)-born Islam, 63, and his wife Debbie Driesman, 61, live in a 40,000-square-foot residence in Potomac.

His contributions in India include a $2 million donation to the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) to build the Frank and Debbie Islam School of Management with an endowed chair and building a technical college for girls in Azamgarh in memory of his mother Qumran Nisan.

"As a businessperson I do not make these contributions as charity but as investments for renewing and replenishing the American dream and to building strong futures for the citizens of America and India," Islam told IANS in an interview.
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Source: IANS