Mohnish Pabrai

Education

Clemson University.

Career

Pabrai worked with Tellabs between 1986-1991, first in its high speed data networking group, and then in 1989, joined its international subsidiary, working in international marketing and sales. In 1991 he started his Information Technology consulting and systems integration company, TransTech, Incorporated. with about United States$30,000 from his own 401K account and United States$70,000 from cr card debt. He sold the company in 2000 to Kurt Salmon Associates for United States$20 million.

Today he is the managing partner of the Pabrai Investment Funds (a family of hedge funds inspired by Buffett Partnerships), which he founded in 1999.

Their starting point is to give back approximately 2%, or United States$1 million every year. The initial goal is the alleviation of poverty in India.

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Achievements

• Mohnish Pabrai has won the 1999 Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler Illinois High Technical Entrepreneur Award given by Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler, the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago. Pabrai credits Anand Kumar, the founder of Ramanujan School of Mathematics (also known as the Super 30) with the originating this idea.

Membership

Pabrai is a member of the Young Presidents" Organization (Young Presidents' Organization) and a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE). The tool that has been chosen is to provide tutoring services to some of the least privileged members of Indian society, and to enable them to attend some of the elite institutions of higher learning.