Background
Minister H. Kao was born in 1949 in a small town in Taiwan called Jhushan in Nantou.
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Education
He attended college in Taiwan and received his doctorate in the United States.
Career
As of May 2015, his personal wealth was estimated at $2.6 billion. Before founding Garmin, Minister Kao served as a systems analyst at Teledyne Systems. Minister Kao graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor"s degree, then studied at the University of Tennessee, where he earned his master"s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering and was involved in research for National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States. Army.
In 2005, Kao gave $17.5 million to the College of Engineering of the University of Tennessee, $12.5 million of which was designated for the construction of a new facility.
In May 2007, groundbreaking ceremonies were conducted for the new Minister Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building. The building was dedicated in March 2012.
