Kanwal Rekhi was the first Indo-American founder & CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ, co-founded and built The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) into the largest global network of Indian entrepreneurs, and cofounded Inventus where he applies his full time, energy, and attention building the venture franchise into a catalyst for India's tech revolution. He came to the United States from India for graduate studies, advanced through the engineering ranks in a number of technology companies, and then cofounded Excelan in Silicon Valley to commercialize ethernet and TCP/IP-standards which became the basis of the Internet.