News & Media
Frank Islam receives extensive news and media coverage related to his areas of personal and professional involvement. This page highlights some of that most recent and significant coverage.
Interview with the India Post News Service
Living the American Dream Frank Islam Sunday, 07.13.2008, 10:48pm (GMT-7) VIRGINIA: Frank Islam is a name synonymous with the American Dream. A native of Aligarh, India, Islam was not exactly born with a silver spoon in his mouth. But in 1994, when he bought QSS, a support services organization in information technology and aero space engineering, for a "small amount of money", he quickly established a growth of an unbelievable 55,000 percent, which made QSS the largest individual owned … [Read more...]
Frank Islam: Achieving The American Dream And Beyond
PREDICTIONS!
FI Investment Group CEO Frank Islam, who sold QSS last year for $255 million, gave us these tech predictions: Outsourcing will be closer to home; corporate governance and social responsibility will become a consideration in choosing outsourcing partners. The video game industry will be a bright spot for tech in 2009, with casual gaming companies and "indie" game publishing companies leading the pack. Companies will increasingly use distributed R&D models. Thin … [Read more...]
WINNING THE TECH LOTTERY!
Frank Islam sold QSS, his 13-year-old government contracting business, to Ross Perot last January for a whopping $250M. What does someone with that much money do now? We paid a visit to Frank in his Tysons office to find out. One thing’s for sure: Frank is happy. He was all smiles as he ushered us into his 11th floor office and offered iced green tea, which he says he drinks every day. Since selling QSS, Frank definitely has more free time: His regimen went from 16-hour days, six or seven … [Read more...]
BLACK TiE!
Haha. That headline’s a play on words. See, “TiE” is the illustrious former Indian CIO Council, for those of you who go way, way back to the late 90’s of the last century. It rebranded and (this could be our imagination) seems to come up at different times with different words that TiE stands for, the most recent being “The Innovative Ecosystem.” Anyway, we don’t care to overanalyze, we just want to party. So we went Monday night to the Swiss Embassy “Black-TiE” holiday bash where they not … [Read more...]
Living the American Dream
Many Indian-Americans came to Washington with a few dollars and big hopes. Thanks to hard work—and often lucrative government contracting—some are millionaires, living large in Potomac and McLean and making their presence felt in politics, business, and the arts. But they never forget their roots. A wooden bridge arches over the pond of water lilies. For a moment, you are transported to the garden in France where Claude Monet spent the last years of his life painting. Frank Islam can’t … [Read more...]
Interview with Executive Biz Magazine
Frank Islam Founder QSS Group In the 06/14/2007 edition of ExecutiveBiz we had a chance to catch up with Frank Islam, Founder of QSS Group. Earlier this year, Perot Systems acquired QSS Group for $250 million in an all cash transaction. The company had revenues of approximately $260 million, and was founded by Frank Islam. We catch up with Islam on why he sold his company, his future plans, and what were the key to the company’s … [Read more...]