Abbas Sadriwalla is the
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kiosk Software Company
Moonrise Systems. Basically hailing from Bombay Abbas is
a trained research and development chemist. His family
was involved in the manufacture of rubber products. Later he left India to
US and started building his own computers, he was
certified in the Novell operating system and started
many tech ventures which was merged with Moonrise
Systems.
Moonrise started in 1997
as a cyber cafe company. Moonrise owned several cyber
cafes on cruise ship routes. Abbas joined four years ago
as the general manager, and believed from the beginning
that the company should not focus on maintaining retail
operations, but rather on self-service software and the
kiosk marketplace.
NetStop Pro was acquired
in December 2001, back when the software was in its 3.62
version. Abbas also started another company V-Link
Solutions which targets on high speed wireless Internet
access. V-Link has made 110 Embassy Suite hotels in the
United States live with wireless.
Abbas apart from
involving himself in hitech venture also devotes some
time to his hobbies which are flying, shooting pool and
football. |