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]

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