Kamran Elahian (Venture Capitalist & Managing Principal, Global Catalyst Partners)

• Having worked for Hewlett Packard for 3 years after his graduation from the University of Utah, Elahian began co-founding companies in 1981. The companies he founded were
  
• CAE Systems, sold to Tektronix Corp for over $75 million within 3 years
  
• Cirrus Logic in 1984 with revenue growing to over $1 billion within 10 years
  
• Momenta Corp in 1989 that failed within 3 years but led to other companies and to personal growth
  
• In 1993, started NeoMagic Corp that achieved IPO valuation of over $300 million within 4 years, by Planetweb Inc. in 1996, Centillium Communications, and in 1998 was Global Catalyst Partners, Followed by several other companies
  
• Elahian is also the founder and chairman of SchoolOnLine that works to connect the schools around the world together through Internet.

SANDY CLOSE (executive director, Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service)

• Moved to Hong Kong after her BA from Berkeley in 1964, where she worked as the China editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review.
  
• She founded The Flatlands newspaper, a raw voice of the inner city communities of Oakland, Ca.
  
• In 1974, she became executive director of the Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service, helping to develop it into one of the most diverse sources of literary voices and analytical ideas in the U.S. news media.
  
• In 1991 she foundedYOI (Youth Outlook), a collaboration of writers and young people.
  
• In 1996 she also founded New California Media, a network of over 150 ethnic news organizations collaborating to produce a weekly TV show, an awards program, and an inter-ethnic media exchange and Web site.
  
• In 1995, Close received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" for her work in communications.
  
• In 1997 a film she co-produced "Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brian" won the Academy Award for best short.

Zhone Technologies, Inc.

• Mory Ejabat co-founded Zhone Inc. in September of 1999 and raised $500M, the largest single round of funding for a start-up
  
• Completed 6 major acquisitions including Premisys Communications, a public
  
• company which was taken private again under Zhone
  
• Launched first Zhone branded product 6 months after being founded
  
• Announced first major customer 6 months after being founded
  
• Employee population grew from 8 to 490+ in ~2 years, and growing rapidly to 1500 employees
  
• Secured major strategic alliances with Qwest Communications, Texas Instruments, Hughes Electronics and Ericsson
  
• Established an international footprint throughout Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America within the first year of business
  
• Achieved 8th consecutive quarter of growth since inception
  
• Currently owns the #1 global market share position for BRI Integrated Access Device (IAD) products, #3 global market share position for Next Generation Digital Loop Carriers (NGDLC) and #3 global market share for DSL IAD's.

Saba Software, Inc., Bobby Yazdani, founder

• Saba is a global company headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, and
  was founded in 1997 by Bobby Yazdani.
  
• Saba went public in April of 2000 (NASDAQ: SABA).
  
• Saba has quickly grown from 0 to 350+ employees worldwide.
  
• Saba has consistently grown revenues from $1,439,000 in 1999; to
  $17,992,000 in 2000; and $53,070,000 in 2001.
  
• Saba is on track to achieve cash break-even and profitability by May 2002.
  
• Of the companies on the Fortune 500, 3 of the top 5 are Saba customers, as
  well as all of the 'Big 3' automakers and 3 of the 'Big 5' consulting firms.
  In the Public Sector, Saba customers include eArmy University, several
  branches of the U.S. Government, and the governments of Norway, The
  Netherlands, and Scotland.
  
• Among the Global 2000, Saba customers include DaimlerChrysler, 3Com, EDS,
  Procter & Gamble, Medtronic, Anheuser-Busch, Ford Motor Company, Continental
  Airlines, General Electric, Cisco Systems, EMC Corp., i2 Technologies,
  VERITAS Software, and Sun Microsystems.
  
• In 2001, Mr. Yazdani was named a finalist for the Ernst & Young
  Entrepreneur of the Year Award. InformationWeek ranked Saba #27 on its
  Innovation 100 list and Computerworld named Saba to its list of 100 Emerging
  Companies to Watch in 2001.
  

Centillium Communications, Inc

• Centillium Communications, Inc. is combining technical innovation and customer commitment to make broadband communications a market reality.
  Centillium consistently delivers value to its customers by providing broadband networking systems for applications across all market segments.
  The company designs and markets communications chipset solutions for central office equipment, digital loop carrier (DLC) line cards, and customer premises equipment for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Voice over Packet (VoP) and premises networking.

Company firsts:

• First to provide a multi-port ADSL chipset
  
• First to enable technology supporting ADSL in Japan
  
• First to provide multi-mode DSL chipset
  
• First to introduce a VoP solution supporting 336 voice channels with just one chip
  
• First to offer a USB ADSL modem chipset that operates at a full 8-Mbps without external power
  
• First to offer a solution for the Japanese market that supports symmetric DSL
  
• First to provide Single Ended Line Probing (SELP) technology integrated into the ADSL chipset
  
• First to offer transformer less DSL technology

Financial history:

• Founded in 1997
  
• Public in May 2000
  
• Consecutive increase in revenue every quarter since company started
  
• Reached profitability less than one year after going public

Awards

• Centillium Communications Selected by Fabless Semiconductor Association For
  Outstanding Financial Performance Award
  
• Centillium Communications Named Rising Star in the Deloitte & Touche
  Technology Fast 500 Program
  
• Centillium Communications Wins Prestigious InfoVision Award for Entropia™
  Chip
  
• Centillium Communications Named Rising Star by Deloitte & Touche

Wireless Facilities

• 1994 - Massih and Masood Tayebi founded WFI in New York and moved to San Diego in 1996
  
• 10th most successful IPO in Nasdaq history in November 1999
  
• Grew the company to over 1,600 wireless professionals, 18 regional offices around the world and annual revenues of $200M +
  
• Designed and deployed over 30,000 cell sites around the world
  
• International projects in over 108 countries
  
• In 2000 WFI added to Fortune 500 list of Americas top companies and Russell 1000 & 3000 indexes
  
• In 2001, despite a down economy, WFI has remained profitable while keeping cutbacks and employee turnover at a minimal.
  
• Recently completed strategic re-organization, shifting focus from emerging operators and CLEC's, to positioning WFI as the premier independent provider of network solutions for established wireless carriers and equipment suppliers around the world.

Arzoon Inc.

• Arzoon has innovated and pioneered the first web-based supply chain execution solution that unifies international trade logistics, transportation and inventory management on a single platform.
  
• Founded in September 1999 by Farid Dibachi, Arzoon, Inc., current has over 100 employees and has raised $34.2 million from leading investors such as Thomas Weisel Partners; Venrock Associates; Garnett Capital; J.W. Seligman Co. Incorporated, SOFTBANK.
  
• Strategic equity investments also have come from leading transportation providers including Union Pacific, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Canadian Pacific Railroads.
  
• In 2001 Arzoon was named among Computerworld's Top 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2002. for its best Vision and Execution.
  
• It also received the prestigious Crossroads A-List award last year.

  Press release

Youself Javadi (President Sprint International)

• Yousef B. Javadi was named president of Sprint International in April 2001.
  
• As President, he has the responsibility of guiding the build-out of Sprint's global Internet backbone throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, extending IP services to approximately 80 percent of the world's Internet market by 2003.
  
• Prior to Sprint, Javadi served as chief operating officer of PRIMUS Telecommunications North America, a global network provider, where he contributed to the growth of PRIMUS's annual revenue from $1 million to $1.2 billion in four years.
  
• Before joining PRIMUS, Javadi held a variety of other executive positions that included VP of business development for GE Americom, VP of sales and marketing with Overseas Telecom Inc., director of Internet marketing and global communications services for MCI.

Mehrdad Nikoonahad.Ph.D, (VP of Technology, KLA Tencor Corporation)

• He was the Principal Investigator on a number of R&D projects for NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  
• He proposed and developed a platform for a high-speed laser-based wafer inspection system, which was the basis for KLA-Tencor's flagship product.
  
• Dr. Nikoonahad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America. He has authored or co-authored over sixty scientific publications including two chapters and holds over fifteen US patents.
  
• Nikoonahad is currently serving as Vice President of Technology for Strategic Business Development in KLA-Tencor, where he is leading teams of scientists to develop technologies and intellectual properties to meet market needs

Bahram Mahbod, Ph.D. (VP of e-Services Platform Division, Oracle Corp.)

• Best Paper Award based on Ph.D. dissertation in Computer Networks
  
• One of The key architects of the OpenView Network Management at Hewlett Packard
  
• Instrumental in developing the Online Transaction Processing capabilities of the Oracle products and growing the market for it.
  
• Pioneering work in Internet-based computing at Oracle spinoff Network Computer, Inc.
  
• (currently Liberate Technologies, Inc.)
  
• Currently responsible for the technology platform of the emerging online services at Oracle
  
• Board member and advisor to several startup companies and a seed level venture fund

Farhad Mohit (Chairman & Chief Marketing Officer BizRate.com)

• Founded BizRate.com in 1996.
  
• Led the company through 3 rounds of financing, raising over $77M
  
• Grew the company from 0 to over 230 people
  
• Despite being focused solely on online shopping, BizRate.com had over 10MM visitors in November 2001 making it the 24th largest site on the Internet, and 3rd biggest shopping site after Amazon and eBay.
  
• Having weathered the dot com storm of 2000 - 01, BizRate.com is currently at break-even and looks to become profitable in Q1 2002, making it one of the internet's few true success stories.
  

Farid Nemati, PH.D. (CTO) / Homan Igehy, Ph.D. (VP of Biz Dev., TRAM)

• Winner of the 2000 Stanford Entrepreneur's Challenge, the annual business plan competition at Stanford.
  
• Winner of the "Disruptive Technology" and "Elegance of Business Strategy" categories at the 2000 Global Entrepreneur's challenge.
  
• Founded T-RAM in January 2000 based on Dr. Nemati's Ph.D. research at Stanford University.
  
• Raised over $11 million of series A venture financing from the Mayfield Fund, US Venture Partners, and Tallwood Venture Capital.
  
• Farid is currently serving as the chief technology officer and Homan serving as VP of Business Development focusing on developing the corporate strategy of TRAM.
  
• T-RAM is developing a unique type of memory that combines the speed of SRAM with the density of DRAM while compatible with mainstream CMOS processes
  

Taraneh Derak (Presidents, Yube, Inc.)

• She rapidly moved up the management ladder Gupta, thereafter went through three successful IPO's at Gupta, Edify and Marimba.
  
• She founded Yube, Inc. in 1999 based on the vision to build a simple yet powerful solution that would enable enterprises to effectively and efficiently manage customer service operations by fully utilizing the Web and truly empowering their customers over the Web.
  
• Since Yubé's inception in late 1999, the company has delivered on its vision with a unique, integrated suite of eight applications for post-sales services automation.
  
• The company's value proposition has already brought two industry awards for its products and services.
  
• As President and CEO of Yubé, Taraneh leads the company's overall business operations and directs its strategic vision to drive growth.
  

Yubé Accomplishments:

• Started in 1999
  
• Developed and delivered a superb applications suite, which is one of the most comprehensive, Web-based solutions for post-sales customer services automation in the market
  
• Acquired over 15 customer sites (over 300 users), and built a strong pipeline in the "down" market
  
• Signed up over 30 partners/resellers
  
• Obtained endorsements of our value proposition from customers and analysts
  
• Obtained the ASPire award from the ASP Industry onsortium/Computing Technology Industry Association for delivering rapid ROI to customers and exemplifying ASP best practices
  
• Obtained awards and recognition from the press
  
• "Product of the Year for 2001" by Customer Interactions Solutions Magazine
  
• Coverage in leading publications and Web sites such as CRM, realmarket, InfoWorld, CNET, Yahoo Business, crmcommunity.com, aspnews, aspstreet, Start Magazine, Online Reporter, manufacturing.net and others

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) is the leading law firm representing
  technology companies at all stages of their growth, as well as the
  investment banks and venture capital firms that finance them. Over the past
  four decades, the firm has established its reputation by having an unmatched
  knowledge of its clients’ industries, as well as deep and long-standing
  contacts throughout the technology sector. WSGR distinguishes itself by
  taking the time to understand its clients’ business needs and by providing a
  full range of legal services designed to scale with their growth. The firm
  is equipped and experienced in helping to start entrepreneurial ventures,
  successfully take them through their Initial Public Offerings and follow-on
  financings, and then counsel them on a myriad of business issues – including
  taxation, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation.
• SiliconIran Corporate appreciation award was presented to Wilson Sonsini
  Goodrich & Rosati for their invaluable contribution to SiliconIran.
• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has participated in representing and
  financing start-up companies with Iranian founders in Silicon Valley since
  1969.
  

Infostreet, Inc. Siamack Farahbakhshian, founder

• Founded in 1994, InfoStreet Inc. is recognized as a leading application
  service provider (ASP) dedicated to developing and hosting software that
  facilitates group interaction.
• Traditionally, InfoStreet's success emerged from the development of web
  automation, design, and integration for prestigious organization such as
  Paramount Digital Entertainment, Litton Industries, and American Society of
  Clinical Oncology.
• Today, InfoStreet's groupware solution, StreetSmart, has created numerous
  Intranet, Extranet and Community solutions for its clients. The modular,
  highly customizable and integratable nature of StreetSmart enables it to
  seamlessly become or blend with any organization's infrastructure within a
  few hours. All usage and administration is web-based and automated.
  StreetSmart features are applicable to all industries and all sizes
  providing businesses with effective groupware solutions that reduce overhead
  costs, increase organization, and facilitate communication.
• All of InfoStreet's solutions are seen as mission critical to its clients
  and no compromises are made in the quality of the application or the
  service. Multiple monitoring services and state of the art data centers
  ensure that the applications are available 24x7x365.
• InfoStreet was named one of the nation's 500 fastest growing private
  companies by Inc. Magazine in 2001. Also in 2001, the San Fernando Valley
  Business Journal, named InfoStreet as the 8th fastest growing private
  company in the San Fernando Valley.
• Strong and profitable, InfoStreet's financial strength is as reliable as its
  StreetSmart solutions which is in use by tens of thousands of people.
• SiliconIran Corporate appreciation award was presented to InfoStreet for
  their invaluable contribution to SiliconIran.
  

MIS Inc. & Karim Ardalan appreciation Award

• We would like to take this opportunity to recognize an important friend and
  collaborator on our project. Karim Ardalan CEO of Multimedia Internet Services, Inc. (MIS) has been a very focal part of our online accomplishments thus far, for without his sound advice and guidance on the capabilities of the internet, the best way of doing what we wanted to do, and his patience and optimism, we would not have been able to launch our site fully in a timely manner.
  Founded in July of 1995, MIS Inc. is named the number one web design/hosting company in New Mexico by NewMexico Biz Weekly.
  We are very pleased to be associated with him and his company MIS Inc. Accepting on behalf of Karim Ardalan is Bruce Bahmani, the west coast regional arm of MIS Inc.