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A leader of industry
More than a century ago, Lydia Moss Bradley founded Bradley University to help young men and women achieve their educational dreams and lead purposeful and useful lives. The Bradley family has lived her vision for 112 years––family members like Rajesh Soin, MSIE ’71.
Born in New Delhi, India, Rajesh Soin graduated from Delhi University in 1969 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Soin left India to pursue a graduate degree in the United States. With a small sum of money in his pocket, he landed at Bradley University, where he earned his master’s degree in industrial engineering, while also working as a research assistant.
After graduating in 1971, he returned to India to marry his childhood sweetheart, Indu Sohal. Indu is a graduate of Punjab University. The couple soon left for the United States where Rajesh began his career in Akron, Ohio, as an industrial engineer with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company for the next seven years. He later joined Williams International in Richmond Heights, Ohio, as a manager of corporate systems, and he and his wife became American citizens in 1978.
Gifted with a natural affinity for entrepreneurship, Mr. and Mrs. Soin founded Modern Technologies Corporation (MTC) in 1984 with the idea of providing engineering and technical services to the Defense Department. When MTC was sold to BAE Systems 20 years later, it was Ohio’s largest defense contractor, with 3,000 employees in 40 locations nationwide. Soin credits his dedicated, talented workforce for the success of his many and diverse business ventures.
Soin is founder, chairman, and CEO of Soin International, headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. Under his leadership today, Soin International, a holding company for several privately owned companies in 32 locations worldwide, provides strategic management, administrative systems, and financial support to a diverse group of subsidiaries and affiliates. In keeping with Soin’s entrepreneurial spirit, the company annually sponsors the Soin International LLC Award of Innovation to identify, honor, and financially assist an entrepreneurial company in the Dayton area that demonstrates the historical spirit of the community.
Dr. Joe Emanuel, associate dean of Bradley’s college of engineering and technology said, “Raj is a unique human being. What he has done to develop and use his resources puts him in a category by himself. He found shrewd ways to utilize his industrial engineering background. He worked hard to develop a visionary business philosophy that has enabled him to eventually take entrepreneurial business ideas, incubate them, and grow them into profitable entities. No one handed Raj and his wife, Indu, anything.”
The recipient of numerous national and international honors, Soin was named a Bradley Centurion and Distinguished Alumnus in 2004. He has been a member of the Bradley University Board of Trustees since 2005. He and his wife are also members of the University’s Renaissance Circle Society that honors individuals, corporations, foundations, and estates giving $1 million or more to the Campaign for a Bradley Renaissance. The Soins understand that their contribution will make a Bradley diploma more valuable—and more valued—for current students, those who have gone before them and those yet to come.
To read more about Raj Soin and his Captain of Industry Award, see Bradley Hilltopics online at: http://www.bradley.edu/hilltopics/09fall/notebk/notebk2.shtml