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Maurice Kanbar

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Maurice Kanbar is an entrepreneur and inventor. He created New York's first multiplex cinema, and owns over 36 patents on various consumer and medical products, invented the D-Fuzz-It comb for sweaters, Tangoes Puzzle Game, the Safetyglide hypodermic needle protector, a cryogenic cataract remover, and a new LED stoplight. In the beverage industry, Kanbar had a success with SKYY vodka and has recently launched Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur.

Kanbar is a graduate of Philadelphia University, Class of 1952. In 2005, he donated $6 million dollars going towards the construction of the school's new campus center.

Recently, he produced the new animated hit "Hoodwinked" that was number one over the Martin Luther King weekend.

Bibliography

  • Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook, by Maurice Kanbar, Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-200056-6