History is one of the main things that draws Raman Kumar, CBay Systems vice chairman and CEO, to Annapolis in USA
I founded my company CBay Systems in Annapolis over the Labor Day weekend of September 1998. I have homes in Annapolis and Mumbai and I travel there every month for a week to 10 days.
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The city is steeped in history with its cobbled Main Street, historic inns and its waterfront homes. The Treaty of Paris that ended the American War of Independence was ratified here in 1784. This is the state capital of Maryland and also the sailing capital of USA. The Chesapeake Bay waterfront, the US Naval Academy and the Maryland State House are the first sights I notice when I land here.
(This story appears in the 02 April, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)