Rao Remala

Born and educated in India, Rao Remala came to the United States and joined Microsoft in 1981. He reported directly to Bill Gates and worked on many of the company's best-known products, including Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0 and Office 95. Rao Remala and his wife Satya first established a donor-advised fund at the Seattle Foundation, and in 1998, a family foundation called the Satya and Rao Remala Foundation, which gave away around $581,000 in a recent year. The couple’s daughters, Srilata and her older sister Srilakshmi, manage the day-to-day operations of the Remala Foundation.