Min Hwan Kao is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer, billionaire businessman, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Garmin, with Gary Burrell, and has been its chairman.
In 2011, Kao was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for leadership in developing and commercializing compact GPS navigation devices.
Early life and education
Min Hwan Kao was born in 1949 in Zhushan, Nantou, a small town in Taiwan. He graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, then completed graduate studies in the United States at the University of Tennessee, where he earned his Master of Science (M.S.) in 1974 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1977.[1][2][3]