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He also received the IIT Kanpur Leadership Award in 2010, a highly celebrated recognition by his alma mater.

Rawat then went on to start another company, ShopSocially in 2009 and is currently the CEO of ShopSocially.

In 2003 Rawat co-founded another company, AirTight Networks. AirTight provides secure Wi-Fi solutions and is being used by hundreds of businesses such as Pinkberry, Garden Fresh, John. C. Lincoln Hospitals, and MTA New York City Transit.

Rawat has also been very active in several non-profit organizations promoting entrepreneurship and mentoring others. He has been a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) since 2003. He also chairs TiEcon, which is the largest conference in the world for entrepreneurs. Under his leadership TiEcon was recognized as a top 10 conference in the world on ideas and innovation along with TED and World Economic Forum. TiEcon speakers include Marissa Mayer, Vinod Khosla, Sal Khan, Deepak Chopra, Sam Pitroda and Steve Case.

In 2003, in recognition of his success, he was selected to be a charter member of TiE.

Rawat started his first company, Obongo with Samir Palnitkar in 1999. Obongo was an online identity management service offering single sign-on, eWallet and email spam control. It soon attracted a lot of attention from the top silicon valley investors and was funded by Sequoia Capital. Obongo generated a reach of over 40 million users before getting acquired by AOL in 2001.

In 1999, he received the Leadership Award for Excellence and Promise in Business and Technology in 1999 from Siliconindia. Only 10 people of south Asian origin were selected worldwide for this award. Other awardees included Vinod Khosla and Narayana Murthy.

Rawat began his professional career at LSI Corporation in 1993 as a software engineer where he helped create some of the most advanced Electronic Design Automation tools.

Rawat was born in 1969 in a small village in Rajasthan, India. Despite the lack of proper resources, he ranked 29th in the nation out of a pool of 100,000+ applicants and was admitted to the most prestigious engineering college in India, IIT Kanpur (which was established under a US Agency for International development program called the Kanpur Indo-American Program or KIAP). Rawat received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and then came to USA to get his master's degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University. He married Jyoti Rawat in 1993 and had three kids, Rishika, Yashvi, and Rohan.