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Influencer Column :Vinod Dham - Father of Intel Pentium Process

Vinod Dham:

Vinod Dham is popularly known as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and an inventor. Vinod Dham is also titled as the “Father of the Pentium Chip”. Vinod Dham contributions in the development of Pentium processors from Intel brought him immense popularity. His accomplishments are greatly appreciated and respected as he is among the rare Indian-Americans, who have helped to change the face of America. Vinod Dham has been the most promising venture capitalists in India. Vinod Dham has also acted as an Indo-American pioneer from Silicon Valley. In regard to his career, Vinod Dham has remained a Board Member for several years and an advisor to numerous private and public companies.

In recently, Vinod Dham is serving as a Managing Director and Founder of Indo US Venture Partners. To tell more about his accomplishments, Vinod Dham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Acadgild. Acadgild is slightly different from videos and online courses. It offers live mentoring or closely engages students to get a hands-on experience for building real applications. It’s more like a practical course than theoretical. Vinod Dham has always been a keen observer for how the technology works and how it can be improved. When he joined Intel, it was merely up to 663 million companies and by the time he left, it got improved above 16.2 billion.

Family Background:

His father was from Rawalpindi – Punjab, India, post the partition. He was the member of the army civilian department. Vinod Dham is a B.E. degree holder in Electrical Engineering, Delhi College of Engineering. The college is renamed to Delhi Technological University. Vinod Dham was 21 year old when completed engineering.

Vinod Dham has many siblings. He was 25 when he waived off his family in New Delhi and moved to USA to become a graduate. The time when he moved to USA, Vinod Dham only had just only Rs.8 in his pockets. In currently, Dham is living a cordial married life with wife Sadhana and two bright sons. Dham has studied from different universities and colleges. Vinod Dham left his first job in New Delhi, to pursue further studies from the University of Cincinnati Ohio in USA.

Awards and Recognition:

Vinod Dham is named as one of the top 25 executives in the US computer industry. Dham was also named as one of the top 100 influential Asian Americans of the decade. His name appeared in the China Daily BBS among Indian Role Models and Heroes along with few other big names. Dham was honored with the NRI Achievement Award at the NRI Global Summit, 2009. The list of awards and recognition does not end here and in fact continues.

Motivational Factor about Vinod Dham:

Dham could have stayed with Intel and made to good career. Nevertheless, the time he was ready to quit Intel, he was himself a major brand. People no more recognized him as an employee of Intel, but a separate inventor altogether. Dham did not take anything from his family and this includes the financial support too. Vinod Dham did all by himself. It’s only due to his efforts today that IndoUS Venture Company could invest in about 2 dozen companies. He isn’t a motivational speaker, or an inspirational leader. He just believed in himself and continued to invest his efforts in the right things.

In today, Dham and his wife are donors to various social causes in US and India. He has remained a trustee of American India Foundation (AIF). It’s the foundation, where Former President Bill Clinton is the honorary chairperson. Dham’s interests also include a mission to provide underprivileged children in India and enhance their learning capabilities through digital technology.

Due to his continuous efforts in both the countries, Vinod Dham received the Visionary Award for his DE work by Montel Singh Ahluwalia in 2010. There is nothing that can stop you from touching your goals if you find a way to reach them. Hurdles are everywhere; nevertheless few experts like Dham treat these hurdles as test papers and keep clearing those with good marks.