Mohsen Moazami
Iranian-American entrepreneur
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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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| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupation | entrepreneur |
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]