Kenan E. Sahin's House

In 1982, Sahin founded Kenan Systems, a company that grew to employ more than 800 people by 1999. In 1999 Kenan Systems was acquired by Lucent Technologies for $1.48 billion.

He then became President of Lucent's Software Products Group and Vice President of Software Technology at Bell Labs. In December 2000, Sahin left Lucent, and in late 2001, Lucent sold the assets of the former Kenan Systems to CSG Systems for US$300 million

In 2002, he took over the Technology & Innovation business of Arthur D. Little, a consulting firm which was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1886 and transformed it into TIAX, a leading technology development company.

In 2006 he was ranked the 20th wealthiest Bostonian, worth $904 million.

He gave a gift of $100 million to MIT.