Bokhari became well acquainted with Temple when he earned his Executive MBA from the Fox School of Business.
In 2006, he gave back to his former North Philadelphia neighbor when he pledged $1 million to the school’s Building Fox, Transforming Lives campaign.
In recognition of his gift, the suite housing the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute is named after him.
“Like many Temple students, I didn’t come from a family of business people, but Temple helped teach me what I needed to know,” says Bokhari, who is CEO of Parkway Clinical Laboratories and a corporate officer of Rosetta Genomics, Parkway’s parent company.
“I directed my donation to the IEI because it’s there that I gathered the wisdom and strength to transform my entrepreneurial passion into demonstrated business success. The institute is an incubator for bright young people who are tomorrow’s innovators and business leaders.”