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PREET MOHAN SINGH KAPOOR Entrepreneur based in California

ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਐਸੀ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥

ਪੁਤ੍ਰ ਕਲਤ੍ਰ ਵਿਚੇ ਗਤਿ ਪਾਈ ॥

Such is the Glory of the True Guru;

In the midst of children and spouses, they attain emancipation. ||2||

S. Preet Mohan Singh Kapoor is a serial entrepreneur based in California.

Preet Mohan Singh was born in 1944 at Multan, British INDIA. His father late S. Vas Dev Singh retired as Superintendent District and Session Courts at Karnal Haryana while his mother late Sardarni Savitri Devi was a home maker and took care of him and his four sisters who were trained as teachers. He spent his early childhood at Panipat. After doing schooling from Sanatan Dharam High School, he joined Arya College Panipat for Intermediate Science. He went to Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology and did his Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1964. He did advanced courses of Computers in Power System Monitoring and Control at IIT Kanpur in 1979, Project Management Indian Institute of Public Administration in 1984, Project Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation are IIT Delhi 1987, PSTI Bangalore.

Vastly experienced in Power and IT industries, he successfully worked on Hydro Electric Designs and Hydel Power Project at Trisuli, Nepal. He developed Power Systems Planning for 4th and 5th Five-Year-Plans for the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa and Union Territories of Chandigarh, Dadra, Div, Nagar & Haveli, as Deputy Director, Ministry of Energy, Government of India.

In 1991, the family decided to move to USA. They migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area, the home of Silicon Valley, he co-founded a Computer parts trading incorporation Advanced Micro Supplies INC. Visualizing a future global trend in Software Services technology, he along with his wife Harvinder Kapoor, founded another corporation AMS Informatix Inc. They did pioneering work to bring 250 top notch software engineers from UK, Singapore and India to USA for providing IT consulting services during the millennium period to Fortune 500 Companies all over the country. The hallmark achievement of the company was to undertake full IT migration work for the sixth largest Bank (Fleet) in USA, a project that lasted multiple years.

Having an impeccable record for successful investments in the real estate in India and USA (California, Hawai and Florida), he explored his Private Equity business by investing at early stages in Reddy Steel and Pipe Mills at Hyderabad, and US-based successful companies such as Infinera Inc, Legal Zoom, EnhanceScope, and Benefit Street etc to acquire major milestones. Leading the QGS Pvt Ltd, helped the company to impart Computer Managed Training Services to 30,000 students below Power Line in the recent Past in Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal states in India.

Service

As is relevant with so many Immigrant groups, Sikhs were concerned about the loss of their culture and language among young people. But Preet Mohan Singh chose to do something about it. He, with help from his business partner Bhupinder Singh, digitized the Sri Guru Granth Sahib - the central religious scripture of the Sikhs, so its contents in English text could reach to non- Punjabi speaking world both in India and here in the Western World. This was a first of its kind CD-ROM.

CD-Rom Front

CD-Rom Back

CD-Rom Cover

There was serendipity in this idea and Preet Mohan Singh humbly accepted the responsibility of being the 9th direct descendent of illustrious Poet Laureate Bhai Nand Lal Goya who was a devout disciple in the court of Guru Gobind Singh ji.

A tree showing the linage of Bhai Nand Lal Ji Goya

A total of 15000 pages were included in the CD-Rom, including: Transliteration of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in English as published in the book written by a panel headed by Professor Gurbachan Singh Talib of Punjabi University Patiala, Major date wise events in Sikh history, Sikh Guru Lives as written by Prof Puran Singh in his book ‘Ten Masters’, Excerpts of Quotations from SGGS, 31 Ragas and pictures of Major Gurdwara’s of the World. Such momentous and gigantic information for the first time squeezed in one CD simply exhilarated one and all.

Shivpreet Singh with Preet Singh and Harvinder Kaur at the time of release of CD-Rom 'Strictures & Heritage ofsikhs'

His Prodigy son Shivpreet Singh pursuing his double Major from U/C Berkeley in Molecular Cell Biology and Western Music, first time ever in the history converted all the 31 Ragas included in the SGGS into MIDI format so as to make it possible to be included in the CD ROM and reach the masses.

Hailed by San Jose Mercury News, ‘A Doctrine goes DIGITAL,’ this momentous work of digitizing Sri Guru Granth sahib was highly circulated globally by premium newspapers of the world. A comprehensive full-page article on the ‘Living Cover’ of Mercury News paper was published on September 9, 1995. Dr. R P Goldman Chairman, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley remarked about this project: "A labor of love has resulted in a product that will be of interest and value to all students of Sikhism and comparative religions."

The cover of San Jose Mercury News as published on 9th Sep, 1995

This was a great step that inspired several new translation, transliteration, and transcription projects around the world both for Sikhs and others. These monumental works opened floodgates of information available instantly at one place to get access to classical texts in a language that people could understand and pass on to the next generation of humanity.

Comprehensive details of the CD Rom as published in the paper

On personal front, Preet Mohan Singh lives with his wife Harvinder Kaur, his son Shivpreet Singh, his daughter-in-law Dashminder Kaur, and his three grandchildren, Gobind Singh, Jania Kaur and Geet Kaur in San Ramon, California USA. His wife has always been by his side through his adventures with work, family and service to the community. In many ways, he has inspired his son who is steeped in Gurbani and is also a biotechnology executive, and his daughter-in-law, who is a leader in the software field. He continues to pass on the legacy of Guru Nanak’s ideals of work and worship to his grandchildren.

Dr Gurnam Sihgh, Dean Academic Affairs of Punjabi University Patiala, honoring Preet Mohan Singh in Gurdwara Sahib at Hayward, California in Aug 2019 

Service to the community along with prayers can and must be done while being fully involved with family and work. This is the message of Guru Nanak, that has been passed on through generations. Preet Mohan Singh Kapoor is living the dream of work and worship set up by his Gurus.