Kumar Malavalli
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Kumar Malavalli is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist.
In 1995, he founded Brocade Communications Systems with Paul Bonderson Jr. He currently serves as chairman of C3DNA Inc.
and as a partner at VKRM Services, a boutique investment firm.
He has also served on the boards of the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Fibre Channel Industry Association.Malavalli was presented with an honorary doctor of science degree by California State University, East Bay in 2013.
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.
Professor Darrell Long currently holds the Kumar Mavalli Chair.Malavalli is a member of the Silicon Valley Hall Engineering Hall of Fame.
Early life and education
Malavalli was born in Mysore, Karnataka, India. He moved to Düsseldorf, Germany in 1972 following his graduation from the National Institute of Engineering with a bachelor's degree in engineering. After graduating from the Institute of Engineering in Düsseldorf with a master's degree in industrial electronics, Malavalli moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Career
Malavalli worked for Canstar Communications' fibre channel group, which was later purchased by Hewlett-Packard. He served on the T11 Technical Committee of the American National Standards Institute, which established universal fibre channel specifications.
In 1995, Malavalli co-founded Brocade Communications, a storage area network manufacturer, with Paul Bonderson, Jr. Brocade was founded in 1998 and went public in May 1999, and its CEO was found guilty of unlawful backdating of options in January 2008. Malavalli served as Brocade's CTO in addition to being a co-founder.
Malavalli co-founded InMage, a self-driving software firm, in 2001.
He received the 2002 Gene Milligan Award from the International Committee for Information Technology Standards for his role as chairwoman of an INCITS committee, which developed 17 standards for storage area networks.
Malavalli was the first Indian member of the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame in 2003.
Malavalli co-founded Glassbeam, a software-as-a-Service firm, in 2009 with Puneet Pandit. He also acts as chairman of the corporation.
InMage CEO Malavalli was appointed in 2011.
Malavalli has been involved with CryptoMill Technologies and LeadForce 1, among other businesses whose boards. He was also an investor in Edurite Technologies, which was later acquired by Pearson Education.