Abbas Sadriwalla ( hi, अब्बास सद्रीवाला; born 1948 in
Bombay, now
Mumbai,
India)
is chairman and CEO of the
Fort Lauderdale-based
Wireless Logix Group of seven companies, which offer Wi-Fi technologies.
[Cassano, Erik. "Fast Lane: Abbas Sadriwalla, Over the horizon." ''Smart Business Broward/Palm Beach'', 1 February 2007.]
History
Sadriwalla is himself of
Mewari origin. His father comes from the village of
Bari Sadri
Bari Sadri is a town and a municipality in Chittaurgarh district in the state of Rajasthan, India.
Geography
Bari Sadri is located at . It has an average elevation of .
Demographics
As of the 2011 India census, Bari Sadri had a population of 15 ...
in the
Mewar
Mewar or Mewad is a region in the south-central part of Rajasthan state of India. It includes the present-day districts of Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Pirawa Tehsil of Jhalawar District of Rajasthan, Neemuch and Man ...
region of
Rajasthan (hence the name Sadriwalla), from where he migrated to
Mumbai as a penniless teenager. After working for several years with a rubber products company, he set up his own rubber firm which eventually grew into Rubber Industries India Pvt Ltd, one of the largest rubber products manufacturers in India till the 1970s.
Sadriwalla had to take charge of the family rubber business at the age of 18 after his father died prematurely in 1966.
But he wanted to become a pilot and opted to move to the
United States in 1973 to pursue his dream, leaving the family fortune to his three siblings.
Sadriwalla started life in the US from scratch, working in a string of shop floor jobs while financing his own pilot training. "I arrived," he remembers, "with very little money in my pocket." In 1976, he qualified as a commercial pilot and trained further to become a pilot instructor. Between 1978 and 1984, he taught flying in South
Florida. Always a technology buff, Sadriwalla spotted an opportunity to supply special purpose computers to the aviation industry in 1990 and launched a company called ADS (Application Designed Systems) Associates. After speciality computers became less relevant in a rapidly changing technology marketplace, he diversified into the pager business and built a highly profitable company called Pageco International to manufacture pager crystals. As pagers were displaced by cell phones, Abbas moved into Wi-Fi technology.
Pursuing his interest in R&D Sadriwalla is currently the CEO of Liquiguard Technolologies, Inc., a manufacturer that develops coatings for everyday objects.
Personal life
Sadriwalla lives in Fort Lauderdale with his wife Deborah and sons Abbas and Alexander.
[Zimmerman, Christine]
"Who's who: Abbas Sadriwalla"
, kioskmarketplace.com. 14 January 2004. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
References
External links
at India-Inc
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1948 births
Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
American people of Indian descent
Indian Muslims
Businesspeople from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Businesspeople from Mumbai
Commercial aviators