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10 Famous Indians in Silicon Valley
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012, 00:41 IST |
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Vivek Wadhwa
Vivek Wadhwa is a technology entrepreneur and academic.
Wadhwa plays a prominent role in instituting start-up visa, which will help entrepreneurs with proven job creation and company size obtain long-term visas. According to Wadhwa if this movement is not executed skilled immigrants will be gone. He also adds, ‘’they’ll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up five years from now and wonder how we let this happen."
Wadhwa was honoured with the title "leader of tomorrow" by Forbes magazine in the year 1999 and he received the "2012 Outstanding American by Choice" award by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Wadhwa holds a B.A. in Computing Studies from the University of Canberra, in Australia, and an MBA from New York University. He is founding president of the Carolinas chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TIE), a non-profit global network intended to foster entrepreneurship.
Vivek Wadhwa is a technology entrepreneur and academic.Wadhwa plays a prominent role in instituting start-up visa, which will help entrepreneurs with proven job creation and company size obtain long-term visas. According to Wadhwa if this movement is not executed skilled immigrants will be gone. He also adds, ‘’they’ll be back home building the next Googles and Intels in other countries, and we will wake up five years from now and wonder how we let this happen."
Wadhwa was honoured with the title "leader of tomorrow" by Forbes magazine in the year 1999 and he received the "2012 Outstanding American by Choice" award by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Wadhwa holds a B.A. in Computing Studies from the University of Canberra, in Australia, and an MBA from New York University. He is founding president of the Carolinas chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TIE), a non-profit global network intended to foster entrepreneurship.
