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Waleed J. Iskandar: An Adventurer at Heart

 

He was supposed to be studying for his M.B.A. at Harvard. Where was he? Water-skiing with his brother. Was that a problem? No. Waleed J. Iskandar was so sharp that he could study less, achieve high grades and squeeze in plenty of water-skiing. Classmates remembered him wandering in late for a study group and rapidly rattling off solutions to a thorny case before dashing off to the water.

Known for his zest for life and his devotion to Pink Floyd, Mr. Iskandar enchanted people &emdash; a lot of people. His contact list on his Palm Pilot consisted of thousands of names. As one of his relatives put it, "Wherever he was, that became the best place in the world to be."

He was an inveterate adventurer. Among innumerable excursions, he had biked the 400 miles from San Francisco to Santa Monica, gone on safari in Africa, explored the rain forests of South America and stayed with monks in India.

Mr. Iskandar, 34, chief of digital strategy for Europe for the Monitor Group, lived in London, and was on Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles to visit his parents. He and his fiancée, Nicolette Cavaleros, had been visiting his brother in Boston. She was going to fly to California the day after he did. They were going to be married in July.

 

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From "Profiles in Grief" of The New York Times.
Photo: Courtesy of his loving father Joseph Iskandar <www.iskandar.com/waleed911>