Business
Sam Nazarian
Sam Nazarian (Persian: سام نظریان, born 1975 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian entrepreneur. Nazarian is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SBE, a Los Angeles based luxury hospitality, real estate development and lifestyle company [...]
Paul Merage
Paul Merage is an Iranian entrepreneur. He is the former CEO and co-founder of Chef America Inc. who invented Hot Pockets microwaveable snacks. He received a bachelors and an MBA from the Haas School of Business [...]
David Merage
David Merage is a successful American businessman and venture philanthropist who co-founded the frozen microwave snack Hot Pockets. He and brother Paul Merage later sold the company to Nestlé for $2.6 billion. In 1976, David [...]
Hamid Akhavan Malayeri
Hamid Akhavan-Malayeri (born in 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is the CEO of Siemens Enterprise Communications since February 2010. Previously, he was member of the board of Deutsche Telekom AG and also CEO of T-Mobile International AG. [...]
Kaveh Pahlavan
Kaveh Pahlavan, born in 1951 in Tehran, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Professor of Computer Science, and director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts. His [...]
Sepandar David Kamvar
Sepandar David Kamvar, also known as Sep Kamvar, is a Persian American computer scientist, artist, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA. He is a consulting assistant professor of computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford University [...]
Salar Kamangar
Kamangar, born in Iran in 1977, earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences with honours from Stanford University. Before taking over responsibilities of CEO of YouTube, he was Vice President of Google’s Web Applications. SALAR KAMANGAR [...]
Goli Ameri
Goli Ameri (in Persian: گلی عامری née Goli Yazdi, born September 26, 1956) is an Iranian-American diplomat, politician and businesswoman from the U.S. state of Oregon. She is the current Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Diplomacy [...]
Shahriar Afshar
Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) (born 1971) is an Iranian physicist and an award-winning inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. As of [...]
Anousheh Ansari
Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری, born September 12, 1966 in Mashhad, Iran) is an engineer and the Iranian co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, Inc and a spaceflight participant with the Russian space program. Her previous [...]
