Mohsen Moazami

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Mohsen Moazami
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Born
Tehran, Iran [1]
NationalityIranian-American
Alma mater Stanford University
Occupationentrepreneur

Mohsen Moazami is an Iranian-American entrepreneur. He has founded companies including Stanford Business Systems, [2] CNTP, [3] and Seif Capital. [4] Moazami has also served as a member of Cisco Systems executive staff for 12 years, including as a member of the senior leadership team for emerging markets. [5] [6]

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Early life and education

Moazami was born and raised in Tehran, where he attended Iranzamin School. [1] [7] After earning his high school diploma, he moved to the U.S. for college and earned his master's degree at Stanford University. [2] [8]

Career

Moazami founded Stanford Business Systems, which was acquired in 1995 by Kurt Salmon Associates, an Accenture company. [9] Moazami became vice president in charge of global e-business. [2] [7] Additionally, he was senior partner [8] and national director of the advanced technology group of Kurt Salmon Associates. [10] He received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2010. [11]

For 12 years, Moazami worked for Cisco Systems in various roles, [6] [12] including membership in the senior leadership team for emerging markets. [5] [13] [14] In 2011, Moazami invested in Bina Technologies, a startup company which builds hardware and software for genomic analysis. [15] Bina was acquired by Hoffmann-La Roche in December 2014 [16] Moazami is also founder, general partner, and managing director of CNTP. [3] [5] [17] He joined the board of Aerospike in June 2014. [3]

In August 2014, Moazami joined the board of vArmour, when CNTP invested in the firm. [17] [18] He served on the board of EPCglobal, a nonprofit radio-frequency identification standards group. [19] Moazami is also on the board of Kaazing Corporation, [20] Global Capacity, [21] and UNDESA-GAID. [22] He is founder and general partner of Seif Capital, a health and bio-science venture capital firm. [4] Moazami and his wife, Laleh Amirteymour Kalali, opened a donor-advised fund with PARSA Community Foundation, an organization which aims to help various Persian causes. [23] In 2015, Moazami joined the board of directors for Frame, a California-based cloud platform. [24] In 2019, Moazami joined as an advisor for Inxeption, a California-based technology platform. [25]

References

  1. 1 2 Memarian, Jahandad (August 3, 2015). "Mohsen Moazami: A Farewell to Pre-Set Paths". Huffington Post. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mohsen Moazami". Bloomberg. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Sarah Drake (June 24, 2014). "NoSQL database company Aerospike aims to grow team with $20M". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Christina Farr (April 21, 2012). "Genome entrepreneurs say their data will help you live longer". Venture Beat. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Michael Carney (August 20, 2014). "Stealthy vArmour raises $36 million in 9 months on the promise of reinventing hybrid cloud security". Pando Daily. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Samantha Perry (January 1, 2009). "East Versus West". Brainstorm Magazine. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  7. 1 2 "Mohsen Moazami". IIP Digital. January 12, 2009. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  8. 1 2 Aparna Krishnakumar (May 18, 2005). "Retail Tech Man". Business Standard. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  9. ↑ Rachel Beck (December 17, 1999). "Retailers, e-companies join forces". The Augusta Chronicle. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  10. ↑ "The Next Sales". Computerworld. November 18, 1996. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  11. ↑ "A Tribute to the 2010 Ellis Island Medal of Honor Recipients". CapitolWords. September 15, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  12. ↑ Conor O’Clery (June 29, 2001). "Cisco may be in a valley now, but broadband could return it to peaks". The Irish Times. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  13. ↑ Naomi Grossman (May 1, 2006). "ThingMagic tracks success with universal RFID reader". Indus Business Journal. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  14. ↑ Mike Magee (October 7, 2009). "Cisco expands management from 10 to 2,500 people". TG Daily. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  15. ↑ Jordan Novet (December 19, 2014). "Roche acquires genomic analysis startup Bina". Venture Beat. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  16. ↑ Jason McCormick (December 23, 2014). "Big Data's Bina acquired by Big Pharma's Roche". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  17. 1 2 onathan Vanian (August 20, 2014). "Security startup vArmour targets the hybrid cloud with a $21M funding round". GigaOm. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  18. ↑ Cromwell Schubarth (August 20, 2014). "Stealthy security startup vArmour raisses $36M in two rounds". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Q&A: Cisco VP talks RFID". Computer Business Review. June 13, 2007. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  20. ↑ "Mohsen Moazami, Executive Chairman". Kaazing. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  21. ↑ "Board Members". Global Capacity. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  22. ↑ "UNDESA-GAID Partners Open Campaign on Digital Technologies for Poor-Country Schools" (PDF). The Global Alliance for ICT and Development. October 2009. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  23. ↑ "PARSA Feature: The Moazamis Reach for Their Philanthropic Roots in the New World". PARSA. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  24. ↑ "Frame Secures $10M in Funding". FinSMEs. June 24, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  25. ↑ "Inxeption Advisors". Inxeption. April 10, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
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