Foresight, passion marked businessman's life

CHAMPAIGN – Mohamed Sharabash lived in Champaign-Urbana for about three decades. But during that time, the Egyptian-born businessman launched an array of projects that made computer technology more useful not only to area residents, but to those worldwide.

Locally, he was probably best known as the founder of Micro Systems International, a computer solutions company, and Advancenet, an Internet service provider that was eventually sold to Indianapolis-based eGIX.

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