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The late Dr. Amar Bose, founder of acoustics company Bose Corporation, is to be honored with the prestigious Founders Award at The Asian Awards which will take place on April 17th 2015 in London. This is the fifth year of the prestigious award ceremony. The previous honorees of The Asian Awards include the legendary Ravi Shankar, Sir Ben Kingsley, Freddie Mercury and Bruce Lee.
Born in 1929, Dr. Amar Bose was an Indian academic who turned his hand to building one of the most respectable acoustics companies in the world, the Bose Corporation. He received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and PhD from MIT, all in electrical engineering. He joined the faculty in 1956 and taught until 2001, fully dedicated to his students and consistently recognized for teaching excellence. In 1964, Dr. Bose founded Bose Corporation. Since its inception, and true to his guiding principles, the company has remained privately held with a focus on long-term research.
His inventions spanned decades and transformed categories. His original analysis for noise cancellation was created in-flight from Zurich to Boston. For the next 19 years he continued the research and development of headsets for commercial pilots and the military. In 2000, after nearly $60 million of funding, the QuietComfort® noise-cancelling headset was first introduced, revolutionizing headphones globally and permanently.
It was his commitment to innovation that changed how people listen to music, with other technological breakthroughs in home audio, mobile audio, automotive sound and beyond – each challenging convention and norms.
He was known to say: “I would have been fired a hundred times” at a public company, citing he never went into business to make money. Instead, he would explain: “I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.”
On deciding the choice of this year’s Founders Award, The Asian Awards, founder Paul Sagoo said: “We actually intended to honor him two years ago at the 3rd Asian Awards. When we notified him of our intentions he wrote me a beautiful email thanking The Asian Awards, but stating he was not well enough to travel. He sadly passed away five months later.” His daughter, Maya Bose will collect the award on her late father’s behalf. A host of stars, business leaders and politicians will attend The Asian Awards, which celebrates the outstanding achievements of individuals born in or with direct family origin from all of Asia, across all disciplines of life.
