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Tsoltim Ngima Shakabpa was born in Lhasa, Tibet and educated in Tibet, India and the United States. After serving the Tibetan Government-in-Exile as Managing Director of the Tibetan Industrial Rehabilitation Society, which successfully resettled 7,000 Tibetan refugees in small scale industrial projects in Himachal Pradesh, India, he moved to the United States and established an outstanding career as a senior American international banker and Chairman & President of an investment bank in Texas. While living in Seattle, WA, he was the President of the Tibetan Association of Washington, during which time he founded the annual festival, TIBETFEST, which to this day is attended by over 50,000 people in a two day period.