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Rajesh K Soin's is a true Indian American success story. His business acumen, passion for excellence and plain hard work led him to become one of the leading businessman in the United States of America. Soin graduated from Delhi University in India in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

He received a master's degree in industrial engineering from Bradley University in 1971. In 1978, Soin and his wife became American citizens. Raj and Indu Soin started their first business venture in the early 1980s and since then they have been instrumental in building and creating a number of successful and thriving enterprises.

Although a number of these have been spun out and sold, they currently own several privately held business units under the holding company "Soin International." These companies, with offices across the globe, include different type of services, manufacturing, retail goods, private equity investments, and real estate development.

The attachment has a list of companies owned by Soin International. Raj and Indu established the Soin Foundation in USA to support their philanthropist activities in the areas of education, health care, arts and culture.

In 2000, Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio changed the name of the College of Business to "The Raj Soin College of Business" in recognition of his financial and other contributions to the community at large. This college consistently ranks as one of the top business training centers in USA and attracts students from all over the world.

Historically speaking, this marked the first time any major college in USA was named after a person of Indian Origin. In 2005, The Soin Foundation was one of the major benefactors in creating a trading and training center at Wright State University.

Equipped with dozens of computers, flat screen monitors, and ability to study all worldwide markets in real time, students are able to simulate trading on any major stock exchange or equity market.

This center received worldwide recognition when it was featured as one of the best trading centers in USA in the magazine, "Business News". The Soin Foundation is the major benefactor for a number of annual events in Ohio including the innovation award, business of the year award, Soin Scholar Program which provides full scholarship to graduates of Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) for pursuing MBA in Wright State University.

Raj has a strong belief in giving back to the community. In 2002, Raj and Indu Soin established the Soin Foundation in India with a similar mission as their foundation in the USA. To take the foundation ahead and work towards development in India, Soin recently established a hospital in village Banchari, in Hodal in Haryana.

He named it after his father as the 'Sukhdev Raj Soin Hospital. The hospital is a 55 bed 'non-profit' organization, which offers a wide range of round the clock worldclass medical facilities in various medical and surgical disciplines to the community at the most affordable cost.

Hospital's infrastructure and services are aesthetically designed and equipped with state-of-the-art technologies to cater to the health care needs of both the rural and urban segments of Haryana. Sukhdev Raj Soin Hospital also runs a Mobile Health Clinic, which tours the neighboring community and is of immense importance to all the villagers providing necessary medical amenities.

"Keeping up with the commitment of serving the community, we bring together the most talented medical professionals and a dedicated team of clinicians to provide the highest standards of patient care", says Raj Soin.

He adds, "We plan to expand the hospital to more than 200 bed facility and establish a special training institute for nurses, and a medical college in coming years". Soin believes in giving the best to business as well as to the society. His motto of life is- "Serving to grow and growing to serve".