A report published by the Fast Company magazine has presented an impressive list of Iranian executives leading Silicon Valley Tech Giants.
The list includes Iranian executives in Google, eBay, Dropbox, Uber, Facebook and many other companies across different sectors. You can view the full article here. Here is the list of a number of influential Iranian executives, founders, investors and advisers as reported by the Fast Company:
Executives/Founders
Alphabet/Google
- Salar Kamangar, executive officer, Alphabet; former CEO, YouTube
- Farzad Khosrowshahi, director of engineering, Area 120
- Parisa Tabriz, director of engineering
Amazon
- Babak Parviz, VP and leader, Grand Challenge research team
AppLovin
- Adam Foroughi
Aquantia
- Faraj Aalaei, CEO
- Ramin Farjad, cofounder, SVP of R&D
- Pirooz Paravandeh, COO
Brite
- Niousha Zadeh, cofounder and CEO
Code.org
- Ali Partovi, cofounder
- Hadi Partovi, CEO and cofounder
Coriant
- Shaygan Kheradpir, former CEO
Dropbox
- Arash Ferdowsi, cofounder, former CTO
eBay
- Pierre Omidyar, founder
- Amin Zoufonoun, VP, corporate development
Flipagram
- Farhad Mohit, cofounder
Genius
- Mahbod Moghadam, cofounder
Home Care Assistance
- Lily Sarafan, CEO
Intel
- Amir Khosrowshahi, CTO, AI products
Intuit
- Sasan Goodarzi
Kobalt
- Avid Larizadeh Duggan, EVP, chief strategy and business officer
Nokia
- Hossein Moiin, former chief technology and strategy officer
Oracle
- Bob Miner, cofounder
PriceGrabber
- Kamran Pourzanjani, cofounder
Radius Intelligence
- Darian Shirazi, cofounder and CEO
Roche
- Narges Baniasadi, former VP and lifecycle leader
Tinder
- Sean Rad, cofounder, former CEO
- Omid Kordestani, executive chairman
- Kayvon Beykpour, head of product; cofounder, Periscope
Uber
- Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO
- Pedram Keyani, director of engineering
Virgin Hyperloop One
- Shervin Pishevar, cofounder
Y Combinator
- Ali Rowghani, CEO, Continuity Fund
Yahoo
- Farzad Nazem, former CTO
Zoosk
- Alex Mehr, cofounder
- Shayan Zadeh, cofounder
Investors/Advisors
Airbnb
- Ali Partovi
- Hadi Partovi
Bonobos
- Bobby Yazdani
Change.org
- Hadi Partovi
ClassPass
- Hadi Partovi
Color Genomics
- Farzad Nazem
Convoy
- Dara Khosrowshahi
- Hadi Partovi
DoorDash
- Pejman Nozad
Dropbox
- Pejman Nozad
- Ali Partovi
- Hadi Partovi
- Ali Partovi
- Hadi Partovi
Ginkgo Bioworks
- Farzad Nazem
- Bobby Yazdani
Indiegogo
- Hadi Partovi
LegalZoom
- Kamran Pourzanjani
Rent the Runway
- Shervin Pishevar
Salesforce
- Bobby Yazdani
SpaceX
- Hadi Partovi
Sweetgreen
- Bobby Yazdani
Thrive Market
- Ali Partovi
Thumbtack
- Ali Partovi
- Hadi Partovi
Tumblr
- Bijan Sabet
- Bijan Sabet
Uber
- Ali Partovi
- Hadi Partovi
- Shervin Pishevar
- Bobby Yazdani
Ubiome
- Farzad Nazem
Warby Parker
- Shervin Pishevar
Zappos
- Ali Partovi
- Hadi Partovi
ZipRecruiter
- Kamran Pourzanjani