Article: EX-CEO CARVING PASSAGE TO INDIA QUARK OWNER BUILDING MODEL CITY IN PUNJAB.(Business)

Byline: Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News

Software magnate Farhad "Fred" Ebrahimi is busy with a new job: overseeing development of a sprawling community in India, one he hopes will serve as a state- of-the-art model for future cities.

The name of this emerging but little reported-on community: Quark City, named after Denver-based Quark Inc., a privately held software maker owned by Ebrahimi.

Quark City is situated in the northern state of Punjab, an agricultural region not known for high-tech industry.

Ebrahimi - a former Quark CEO - said during a rare Denver appearance Friday that he hopes 500,000 people ultimately will live in the ...

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