Kumar Malavalli
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| Born |
Kumar Malavalli February 9, 1943 Mysore, Karnataka, India |
| Residence | Los Altos Hills, California, US |
| Alma mater |
National Institute of Engineering, Mysore India Cal State East Bay Honorary Doctorate of Science |
| Occupation | Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of InMage Co-founder, CTO Brocade Communications |
| Board member of | Glassbeam, Inc. AlephCloud InMage Inc. |
| Spouse(s) | Vijayalakshmi Malavalli |
| Children | Ranjini Malavalli |
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| Relatives | Dr. Seetharam Malavalli Dr. Shivaram Malavalli |
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 and CEO of InMage Systems 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.
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 in industrial electronics, Malavalli moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Following his hopes and dreams to Toronto, Malavalli worked for Canstar Communications’ fibre channel group, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard. While at Hewlett-Packard, he served on American National Standards Institute’s T11 Technical Committee, which established universal standards for fibre channel.
Malavalli co-founded Brocade Communications, a producer of storage area networks, with Paul Bonderson, Jr. in 1995. Brocade launched in 1998 and went public in May 1999. In addition to being a co-founder, Malavalli served as CTO of Brocade.
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