{{Infobox person | name =Kumar Malavalli | image = Mr Malavalli 1 FINAL.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1943|3|7}} | birth_place = Mysore, Karnataka, India | occupation = Chairman of C3DNA Inc.<br />Co-founder, CTO Brocade Communications | alma_mater = National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, India<br />Cal State East Bay Honorary Doctorate of Science | boards = Glassbeam, Inc.<br />AlephCloud<br />C3DNA Inc. | father = Narayanaswamy Malavalli | spouse = Vijayalakshmi Malavalli | children = Ranjini Malavalli | relatives = Dr. Seetharam Malavalli <br /> Dr. Shivaram Malavalli }} '''Kumar Malavalli''' is an Indian American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist.<ref name=Forbes>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/2005/06/08/cz_df_0608telemedicine.html|title=Remote Retirement|author=Daniel Fisher|date=June 8, 2005|accessdate=September 22, 2013|work=Forbes}}</ref><ref name="The Register">{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/15/inmage_dumps_ceo/|title=InMage dumps CEO|author=Chris Mellor|date=August 15, 2011 |publisher=The Register |accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Indian Express">{{cite web |url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/ie/daily/20000724/iin24047.html|title=Small-town India goes to big-time America|author=Chidanand Raighatta|publisher=Indian Express |date=July 23, 2000|accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name=Rediff>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/jan/14indus.htm|title=NRI to fund Indus school in Bangalore |author=Fakir Chand in bangalore|date=January 14, 2003|accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="India Currents">{{cite web |url=http://www.indiacurrents.com/articles/2005/06/01/the-social-entrepreneur|title=The Social Entrepreneur|author=Nitya Ramanan|work=India Currents |date=June 1, 2005|accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="The Economic Times">{{cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2003-01-21/news/27526661_1_kumar-malavalli-silicon-valley-hall-storage-networking-summit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928030839/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2003-01-21/news/27526661_1_kumar-malavalli-silicon-valley-hall-storage-networking-summit|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 28, 2013|title=Kumar Malavalli makes it to Silicon Valley Hall of Fame|date=January 21, 2003|publisher=The Economic Times|accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="California State University">{{cite web|url=http://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/2013/05/honorary-degree-malavalli-051313.html|title=Entrepreneur, philanthropist Kumar Malavalli to be presented Honorary Doctorate by Cal State East Bay|author=Barry Zepel|date=May 13, 2013|publisher=California State University East Bay|accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Seasonal Magazine">{{cite web|url=http://www.seasonalmagazine.com/2011/07/indus-international-school-plans.html|title=Indus International School Plans Engagement with Civil Society|date=July 6, 2011|publisher=Seasonal Magazine|accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Silicon Valley Business Journal">{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2011/08/15/inmage-names-kumar-malavalli-as-new-ceo.html|title=InMage names Kumar Malavalli as new CEO|date=August 15, 2011 |publisher=Silicon Valley Business Journal|accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref name="The Register"/><ref name="California State University"/> He has also served on the boards of the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Fibre Channel Industry Association.<ref name="UCal News">{{cite web|url=http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/6742|title=Major gift from Kumar Malavalli establishes endowed chair in storage systems|publisher=UC Newsroom|date=November 5, 2011|accessdate=September 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926211840/http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/6742|archive-date=September 26, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Santa Cruz Newscenter">{{cite web|url=http://news.ucsc.edu/2004/11/590.html|title=Major gift from storage industry leader Kumar Malavalli establishes endowed chair in storage systems at UC Santa Cruz|author=Tim Stephens|date=November 4, 2004|publisher=University of California-Santa Cruz Newsroom |accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref>
Malavalli was presented with an honorary doctor of science degree by California State University, East Bay in 2013.<ref name="California State University"/> The Kumar Malavalli 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.<ref name="California State University"/><ref name="Business Journal">{{cite web|url=http://wwfefw.indusbusinessjournal.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=F9892A269A244976B126E430E5112249&AudID=ikxzmtqlu|title=Brocade founder follows gut into ventures|publisher=IndUS Business Journal|accessdate=September 22, 2013|author=Naomi Grossman|date=September 18, 2006}}</ref><ref name="Santa Cruz">{{cite web|url=http://southasia.ucsc.edu/endowed-chairs/kumar-malavalli.html|title=Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair|accessdate=September 22, 2013|publisher=South Asia Studies Initiative}}</ref> Professor Heiner Litz currently holds the Kumar Malavalli Chair.<ref name="Santa Cruz"/>
Malavalli is a member of the Silicon Valley Hall Engineering Hall of Fame.<ref name="The Economic Times"/><ref name="India Currents 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiacurrents.com/articles/2003/04/21/in-focus|title=In Focus|date=April 21, 2003|author=Nitya Ramanan|work=India Currents |accessdate=September 22, 2013}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
Malavalli was born in early March 1943 in Mysore, Karnataka, India.{{cn|date=May 2024}} He moved to Düsseldorf, Germany in 1972 following his graduation from the National Institute of Engineering with a bachelor's degree in engineering.<ref name="Business Journal"/> After graduating from the Institute of Engineering in Düsseldorf with a master's degree in industrial electronics, Malavalli moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.<ref name="Business Journal"/>
==Career== In Toronto, Malavalli worked for Canstar Communications’ fibre channel group, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard.<ref name="Business Journal"/> While at Hewlett-Packard, he served on American National Standards Institute's T11 Technical Committee, which established universal standards for fibre channel.<ref name="UCal News"/><ref name="Santa Cruz"/><ref name="Financial Express">{{cite web|url=http://hospitality.financialexpress.com/20040315/avenues03.shtml|title=Indus International School Expands World Class Facilities|publisher=Financial Express|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref>
Malavalli co-founded Brocade Communications, a producer of storage area networks, with Paul Bonderson, Jr. in 1995.<ref name=Forbes/><ref name="Indian Express"/><ref name=Rediff/><ref name=SEC>{{cite web|url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/1207/89161899001026/filing-main.htm|title=Brocade Communications Systems Inc.|accessdate=September 24, 2013|publisher=SEC}}</ref> Brocade launched in 1998 and went public in May 1999, and its CEO was convicted for illegal backdating of options in January 2008.{{cn|date=May 2024}} In addition to being a co-founder, Malavalli served as CTO of Brocade.<ref name="Enterprise Storage">{{cite web|url=http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/news/article.php/3408121/Brocade-Co-Founder-Returns-In-Backup-Role.htm|title=Brocade Co-Founder Returns In Backup Role|publisher=Enterprise Storage|accessdate=September 24, 2013|author=Paul Shread|date=September 15, 2004}}</ref>
In 2001, Malavalli co-founded InMage, an independent software company.<ref name="The Register"/><ref name="Silicon Valley Business Journal"/><ref name="Enterprise Storage"/>
He was awarded the International Committee for Information Technology Standards’ 2002 Gene Milligan Award for his work chairing an INCITS committee, which developed 17 standards for storage area networks.<ref name="UCal News"/><ref name=icits>{{cite web|url=http://www.incits.org/press/2002/pr200211awards.htm|title=PR 2002-11 Awards|accessdate=September 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104052200/http://www.incits.org/press/2002/pr200211awards.htm|archive-date=November 4, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=icits2>{{cite web|url=http://www.incits.org/Awards/honor.htm |title=Awards |accessdate=September 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801094436/http://www.incits.org/Awards/honor.htm |archivedate=August 1, 2013 }}</ref>
In 2003, Malavalli became the first Indian member of the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.<ref name="The Economic Times"/><ref name="India Currents 2"/>
Malavalli co-founded Glassbeam, a software-as-a-service vendor, in 2009 with Puneet Pandit.<ref name="Silicon Valley Business Journal2">{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/08/30/smallb3.html?page=all|title=Glassbeam cuts time for product analysis with cloud|accessdate=September 24, 2013|publisher=Silicon Valley Business Journal|date=Aug 29, 2010}}</ref> He also serves as chairman of the company.<ref name="Silicon Valley Business Journal2"/>
Malavalli was appointed InMage CEO in 2011.<ref name="The Register"/><ref name="Silicon Valley Business Journal"/>
Other companies whose boards Malavalli has served on include CryptoMill Technologies and LeadFormix (then-known as LeadForce1).<ref name="Bloomberg Businessweek">{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=233710&privcapId=9019758&previousCapId=7728426&previousTitle=TeleVital,%20Inc.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105081240/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=233710&privcapId=9019758&previousCapId=7728426&previousTitle=TeleVital,%20Inc.|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 5, 2012|title=Kumar Malavalli Profile|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref><ref name=silicontap>{{cite web|url=http://www.silicontap.com/leadforce_ropes_in___6m/s-0028171.html|title=LeadForce1 Ropes In $1.6M|publisher=Silicon Tap|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref> He was also an investor in Edurite Technologies, which was later acquired by Pearson Education.<ref name="Financial Express2">{{cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/edurite-bags-elearning-contract-worth-30-m/47709|title=Edurite Bags E-learning Contract Worth $30 M|date=May 29, 2002|publisher=The Financial Express|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref><ref name="India Digital">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiadigitalreview.com/news/pearson-acquires-e-tutoring-venture-tutorvista-appoints-srikanth-b-iyer-ceo|title=Pearson acquires e-tutoring venture TutorVista, appoints Srikanth B Iyer as CEO|publisher=India Digital Review|date=February 23, 2013|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref>
==Philanthropy==
In 2004, Malavalli donated $1 million toward the creation of the University of California at Santa Cruz’s endowed Kumar Malavalli Chair in Storage Systems Research.<ref name="California State University"/><ref name="Business Journal"/><ref name="Santa Cruz"/> He is also a benefactor of Stanford University’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, with donations totaling over $500,000.<ref name=SIEPR>{{cite web|url=http://siepr.stanford.edu/system/files/shared/people/homepage/SIEPR%20Annual%20Report%20Animated%20v3.pdf|title=Stanford Institute for EconomIc Policy Research Annual Report|accessdate=September 24, 2013|publisher=Stanford Institute for EconomIc Policy Research|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118034513/http://siepr.stanford.edu/system/files/shared/people/homepage/SIEPR%20Annual%20Report%20Animated%20v3.pdf|archive-date=January 18, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Malavalli is a co-founder and trustee of the Indus Trust, which builds schools that are not affordable by the middle class population of India.<ref name=Rediff/><ref name="Seasonal Magazine"/><ref name="Financial Express"/> Hindu BL, The Indus Trust is headed by Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray.<ref name=Rediff/><ref name="Seasonal Magazine"/><ref name="Financial Express"/><ref name="BusinessLine">{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/2007/12/13/stories/2007121350532300.htm|title=Indus schools to expand network|publisher=BusinessLine|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref> He is also the principle investor of TeleVital, a company that provides telemedicine services to rural areas in India.<ref name=Forbes/><ref name="The Hindu">{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/12/stories/2006121201560500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622230721/http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/12/stories/2006121201560500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 22, 2009|work=The Hindu|title=Ensuring quality healthcare to rural people at a low cost|date=2006-12-12|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref>
Malavalli is the chairman and a funder of the India Community Center in Milpitas, California.<ref name="India Currents"/><ref name="The Economic Times 2">{{cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-05-31/news/27374925_1_icc-indian-community-kumar-malavalli|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928034210/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-05-31/news/27374925_1_icc-indian-community-kumar-malavalli|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 28, 2013|title=K Malavalli donates $1 m to Indian community centre|publisher=The Economic Times|date=May 31, 2004|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref><ref name=IndiaWest>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiawest.com/news/9643-icc-marks-10th-anniversary-as-model-for-community-center.html|title=ICC Marks 10th Anniversary as Model for Community Center|publisher=IndiaWest|author=Richard Springer|date=March 13, 2013|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref> He also serves as a trustee of the American India Foundation and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.<ref name="Business Journal"/><ref name="AA Press">{{cite web|url=http://aapress.com/arts/asian-art-museum-appoints-seven-new-trustees/|title=Asian Art Museum Appoints Seven New Trustees|accessdate=September 24, 2013|date=July 8, 2012|publisher=Asian American Press}}</ref><ref name="AsianWeek">{{cite web|url=http://www.asianweek.com/2013/10/04/china-comes-to-san-jose/|title=China Comes To San Jose|author=Gerrye Wong|publisher=AsianWeek|date=October 4, 2013|accessdate=October 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128104535/http://www.asianweek.com/2013/10/04/china-comes-to-san-jose/|archive-date=November 28, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> He sits on the board of The Indus Entrepreneurs’ Silicon Valley Chapter and the San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative.<ref name="Santa Cruz"/><ref name="The Times of India">{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-09-12/bangalore/27939193_1_sister-city-cm-yeddyurappa-bangalore|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912202624/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-09-12/bangalore/27939193_1_sister-city-cm-yeddyurappa-bangalore|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 12, 2011|title=San Francisco, Bangalore to become tech 'sisters'|author=Anil Kumar|accessdate=September 24, 2013|work=The Times of India|date=September 12, 2008}}</ref><ref name="SF Gate">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/S-F-sustains-ties-with-Bangalore-3214257.php|title=S.F. sustains ties with Bangalore|author=Andrew S. Ross|publisher=SFGate|date=October 18, 2009|accessdate=September 24, 2013}}</ref>
In 2013, Malavalli was awarded the Immigrant Heritage Award for his philanthropic work in the United States and India.<ref name=India>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiawest.com/news/14700-kumar-malavalli-honored-with-immigrant-heritage-award.html|title=Kumar Malavalli Honored with Immigrant Heritage Award|publisher=India West|accessdate=November 12, 2013}}</ref>
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