This is a Chinese name; the family name is 高 (Kao).

Min H. Kao (simplified Chinese: 高民环; traditional Chinese: 高民環; pinyin: Gāo Mínhuán) is the co-founder of Garmin Corporation with Gary Burrell. His personal wealth is estimated at $4.7 billion [1].

He was born in 1949 in a small town in Taiwan called Jhushan in Nantou.

Before founding Garmin, Min Kao served as a systems analyst at Teledyne Systems. Min Kao graduated from National Taiwan University with a BS degree then joined the University of Tennessee, where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and was involved in research for NASA and the U.S. Army.

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