Washington, February 1, 2006
Abrar Alvi
NRI, Entrepreneur Kamil Hasan appointed as Member of the Democratic
Party of USA to help Democratic National Committee as policy maker.
It will help strong relationship between NRIs and Democratic Party.
Now more NRIs will come forward in politics and will be endorsed
to the key position in the party as well as in the Government
if Democratic Party wins. Mr. Kamil Hasan will sit on the table
with top leaders of the Democratic Party to make a plateform of
the party. He will be able to organise and mobilise the Indian
community to participate in the party, to raise money in a more
organised manner and to reflect issues important to the Indian
Americans in the Democratic platform. He have been involved in
Democratic Party politics at all level for many years. He raised
a lot of money for John Kerry campaign, the 2004 presidential
candidate and helped establish the first Indo-American Council
in DNC."
Kamil Hasan is a general partner in the San Jose-based venture
company, Hitek Venture Partners. He received his B.S. in engineering
from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 1967, an M.S. degree
in engineering from M.I.T, in 1969, and a Ph.D. degree in engineering
from UC, Berkeley in 1973. After receiving his Ph.D., he taught
at the Indian Institute of Technology, Dehli, as an assistant
professor of engineering and later at Stanford University as an
associate professor of engineering.
For more than 25 years, Hasan has worked in the software industry.
He founded Hitek Venture Partners in 1995, to invest in early-stage
companies in the internet, e-commerce, telecommunications, and
enterprise software areas. He has a portfolio of 35 companies
and serves on the board of five of these companies.
Kamil's articles have appeared in more than 50 technical and
trade journals, and he is a recipient of a John F. Lincoln Foundation
award for outstanding achievement in engineering design.
Kamil and Talat Hasan have two daughters and live in Saratoga,
California. They have recently purchased land in Santa Cruz county
and intend to establish a home there as well. They are actively
involved in charity and educational activities through the Hasan
Family Foundation.
