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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (122919)	10/7/2012 1:21:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I've been meaning to look up Veshi's background...........much more reasonable that most business people on CNBC. Turns out he's Canadian born in Kenya.......should have known. ;) Born in Nairobi, Kenya and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of Murad Velshi, the first Canadian of Indian origin elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and his wife Mila, who grew up in South Africa. He is an Ismaili Muslim of Indian descent [1] and earned a degree in religious studies [2] from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1994. [3] During his time at Queen's he made news by organizing protests against Preston Manning and Canada's Reform Party. In 2010, Velshi was awarded the Queen's University Alumni Achievement Award. He previously attended Toronto's Northern Secondary School. Velshi was married briefly in his 20s, and in 2009, he married again. This time, Velshi married New York-born hedge fund manager Lori Wachs, [4] the president of Philadelphia-based Cross Ledge Investments, whom he met when she was a guest on his show. [5]