Now, I looked into this further and it turns out all of that information from Marathi TV Comes directly from a Meet the Candidates interview that he had when he was running for one of the seats on the San Diego Union High School District Board of Trustees. It ran in 2012. Quote directly from the article. In 2006, I helped launch a high-tech company in San Diego, Smart Drive Systems. With little or no budget, we successfully carved out a market foothold and established the company in a highly competitive industry, while personally establishing new client relationships, including the state of California and Salvation Army.