Suneet Singh Tuli

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Suneet Singh Tuli
Born1968
CitizenshipCanadian
EducationCivil Engineering Graduate
Alma materToronto University
OccupationEnterpreuner
OrganizationDatawind
Notable workFounder of Datawind and other companies, Ubislate Tablets, Aakash (tablet) Tablet
Awards18 patents
Website http://datawind.com; http://ubislate.com

Suneet Singh Tuli is the co-founder of DataWind. He was born in 1968 to Lakhvir Singh, the head of an entrepreneur, Sikh family. [1] [2] He graduated from Toronto University in 1990 in Applied Sciences in Engineering. [3] While being student he started working In his brother Raja Tuli's entrepreneurial firm, Widekom. [4] He started work with the objective of developing sales of large size fax machines. [5] He got large size fax machines recorded in Guinness book of world records. [4] [5] By getting boosting sale of 600 machInes in six months at Can $20000 ; Tuli brothers turned into millionaires. [1]

In his second innovative venture, he started creating battery operated handheld printers and hand held scanners under the name of the DocuPort Company. [2] These two companies were among first formed by people of Indian origin in making public offerings on NASDAQ. [2] Most recently, Datawind's Aakash/Ubislate tablets have attracted worldwide attention due to its affordable price to weaker sections of world's population for empowering them with computational and internet access. [6]

Awards & Recognitions

  1. Suneet Singh Tuli has been recognised by Forbes Magazine in its 2012 Impact 15 list as a Class Room Revolutionary [7]
  2. Ban Ki-moon Secretary General of United Nations, while launching his product Aakash 2 tablet spoke about it being great enabler to transform people's lives, in educating and empowering poor with internet and computing access. [8] [9]
  3. In 2012, he and his brother received a technology achievement award from the Indo-Canadian Chamber of Commerce. [10]
  4. Chief Khalsa Dewan honoured him on 65th and 66th World Sikh educational conference [11] [12] in 2014, 2016 consecutively and in 2012 he has been recognised as Enterpreuner of the Year at World Sikh awards. [13]

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  4. 1 2 "Quips & Quotes". Computer World. xxv no. 48 (9 December 1991): 94. The Widefax from Widecom group Incorp. in Missisagua Ont.Canada, The fax made the 1992 Guinness book of world record.
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