And why? What has Rehan Allahwala, who is most known for his DIDXchange phone number exchange and as an open source telephony evangelist, accomplished to deserve winning Mashable Awards Enterpreneur of the Year 2010? How about three of many reasons?

1. The gentleman has trained hundreds of young and old in Pakistan, UAE, Malaysia, Russia, India, Mexico, USA, UK, Poland and Ivory Coast in any combination of the following: software development, product development, marketing, telecommunications, IP communications, sales, research and more. He grows people who work for a few years and either stay with the company and move up in responsibility, recognition, creativity and the $$$ or they leave and start their own business or arrive fully trained to work with the West and East and using English as a second language very well.

2. He has dreamed up ideas, garnered the right people to help make them happen, moving from alpha to fully working in areas such as health, education, telecommunications, media, human resources, and social networking. These innovations have received awards from Total Telecom’s World Communications Awards, VON Pulver Innovator Award, Digium Service Provider Innovator Award, APICTA, PASHA, TMC Internet Telephony, and Mobile Monday Peer Awards.

3. He is a popular speaker on topics that will make audiences laugh, cry and be inspired to grow something of their own. On the other hand, he informs, explains, and tells stories that produce an epiphany in many as they leave his presence!