Kadir Annamalai plans to build technology products to close the distance between the privileged and the unprivileged.

Age: 25

Year: 1st

Hometown: Saratoga, CA

Undergrad: Princeton University

As a high school student, Kadir did research at NASA Ames Research Center where he studied development of nanowires. At Princeton, he studied Electrical Engineering and minored in both Finance and Engineering Management. In between, he spent a few years consulting for major technology firms at Boston-based Keystone Strategy, then decided to pursue an MBA so he could start building products for himself. 

Kadir believes that technology, if used appropriately, has the power to change the world in a way unparalleled in other sectors. Technology also acts as an essential tool to separate the distance between the privileged and the unprivileged.

His vision for changing the world is to continuously build technology products and businesses that reduce friction for people and ease their living. After completing his MBA, Kadir plans to drive product development and innovation for technology products that makes processes that were once complex simple. His current focus is learning how to do that with mobile technology.