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Vivek Wadhwa is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and academic.

Early career

At Credit Suisse First Boston, Wadhwa led the development of a computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tool to develop client-server model software. First Boston spent $150 million on these development efforts. The CASE technology was spun off by First Boston into Seer Technologies in 1990 with an investment of $20 million by IBM.

Seer Technologies filed for an IPO in May 1995.

Academic and public life

Wadhwa is currently Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University; an adjunct professor and executive-in-residence at the Masters of Engineering Management Program and Director of Research at the Center for Research Commercialization at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering; a fellow at Stanford University's Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Halle Institute for Global Learning, at Emory University . He has been a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program and a visiting professor at the School of Information, at the University of California, Berkeley. He writes a regular column for The Washington Post, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the American Society of Engineering Education's Prism Magazine, and Forbes, and has written for Foreign Policy and TechCrunch.

Recognition

In 1999, Wadhwa was named a “leader of tomorrow” by Forbes Magazine .

In May 2000, Red Herring magazine named Wadhwa as "one to watch" in an article titled "The Einstein of Legacy Data Migration", in reference to the company's software that converts legacy data for the PC environment.

In January 2012, Silicon Valley Mercury News called Wadhwa Silicon Valley’s “most provocative voice”. It said, “If there is some kind of digital dogfight in Silicon Valley, chances are that Vivek Wadhwa is smack in the middle of it. Tech entrepreneur-turned-blogger 'makes things happen"'.

In February 2012, Wadhwa was one of the six "2012 Outstanding American by Choice" recipients, a distinction awarded by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

References

1. Cracking The Code, 13 November 2000
2. Seer Technologies Files For An Initial Public Offering, 9 May 1995
3. Singularity University Management Page (2012). Singularity University Management: Vivek Wadhwa. Retrieved February 26, 2012.
4. Faculty & Staff
5. Vivek Wadhwa
6. LWP Staff: Vivek Wadhwa
7. Vivek Wadhwa
8. Vivek Wadhwa - The Washington Post
9. Vivek Wadhwa - BusinessWeek
10. Engineering Our Health, March 2012
11. Over the Hill at 40, September 2011
12. The Real Numbers, Summer 2006
13. Engineers Save Higher Ed, December 2011
14. Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch, 28 December 2010
15. How to Save the Global Economy: Think Small, January/February 2012
16. Insourcing, 10 July 2012
17. The Future of Manufacturing Is in America, Not China, 17 July 2012
18. TechCrunch Posts about Vivek Wadhwa , 28 December 2010
19. The leaders of tomorrow, 30 December 1999
20. Newcomer hopes to sit well with Cisco, 15 May 2000
21. [http://prod.law.stanford.edu/news/vivek-wadhwa-emerges-as-silicon-valleys-most-provocative-voice Vivek Wadhwa Emerges As Silicon Valley's Most Provocative Voice, 22 January 2012]
22. 2012 Outstanding American by Choice Recipients

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• Personal Website

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