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Place of Birth: Malavalli, Karnataka, India
About Kumar 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 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.
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