Nitin “Nick” Kumbhani
A proud WVU graduate originally from Mumbai, India, Kumbhani credits WVU with providing critical scholarship support to help him finish his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1971. Through connections made at the University, he was recruited to develop software for ATMs and other banking systems.
Kumbhani’s first company, Source Data Systems, pioneered ATM software in collaboration with more than 100 major banks nationally and globally. The company was later acquired by a Fortune 500 company.
In 1987, he founded the company that would become Apex Capital Management to follow his second passion — investment management, and pioneered the small- and mid-cap investment category in the U.S.
In 2023, Kumbhani was inducted into the Statler College Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Academy.