Amar Bose

Amar Gopal Bose (born 1929) is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. He is an Indian American electrical engineer.

Bose was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his father, Nani Gopal Bose, was a Bengali revolutionary who had to flee Kolkata in order to avoid prosecution by the British colonial police. A devout Hindu, Bose attended Abington Senior High School and later obtained a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During his early years as an electrical engineering professor, Bose bought a high-end stereo speaker system in 1956 and was reportedly underwhelmed by the performance of his purchase. This would eventually pave the way for his extensive speaker technology research, concentrating on key weaknesses in the high-end speaker systems available during Bose's time, and focusing on psychoacoustics, which would be a targeting point for his future company's success.

In 1964, he founded the Bose Corporation, which is a multifaceted entity that produces products for home, car, and professional audio, as well as conduct basic research in acoustics and other fields.

In addition to running his company, Bose was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT for many years until he retired after the Fall 2000 term maintaining title of professor and still teaching an acoustics class.

Bose, was featured on the 2006 Forbes Billionaires list with $1.2 billion.

His son, Vanu Bose, is also a successful high-technology entrepreneur.

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