Amar Bose
Amar Gopal Bose (Bengali: অমর গোপাল বসু ; born November 2, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American entrepreneur, electrical engineer and sound engineer. He is the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. In 2011, he donated a majority of the company in form of non-voting shares to Massachusetts Institute of Technology to sustain and advance MIT’s education and research mission.
In the year 2007 he was listed in Forbes 400 as 271st richest man in the world, with a net worth of $1.8 billion. In 2009, he had dropped off the billionaire list, and made it back onto the list in 2011, with a net worth of $1.0 billion.
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