Mr. Kanwal Rekhi is a prominent international personality in the field of venture capital and entrepreneurship development. Mr. Rekhi was a student at IIT Bombay and did his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering in 1967 and obtained his MS in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech in 1969.nnAfter working for some years in emerging areas of technology, he founded Excelan in 1982, a network technology company that introduced some pioneering products. Excelan went public in 1987 and merged with Novell in 1989. Kanwal joined the Board of Directors of Novell and was named an executive vice-president and CTO of the company.n