Kamyar Shadan
Chief Operating Officer
Coherity Inc.

Mr. Shadan was on Board of Directors of Coherity and closed funding for the company in Oct of 2001. Post funding the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Shadan to come on board in Oct of 2001 as COO, based on his experiences in the unique business environment of emerging companies and his entrepreneurial spirit and creativity.

Prior to joining Coherity, Kamyar was a founder of Tonerico Technology Partners USA (HQ in Japan), specializing in consulting services; CEO advisory, corporate strategy development, and venture capital/investment bank relationship management. His clients included IQLabs, 4Points Technologies, Vantel Technologies (VTECH Bombay). At IQ labs he initiated, spear headed and lead the funding while working with the CEO in redefining the business plan/strategy, recruited executive team, and completed an over-subscribed VC round in April 2001 (Draper Fisher, Early Bird Ventures, Draper Richards). Kamyar closed over $16M in Venture capital funding within 6mos of 2001 for his portfolio companies.

Previous to Tonerico he co-founded and was the COO of Internet Technology Group (ITG) in Silicon Valley where he built a unique operating model as a holding company/incubator. He had established services to his clients around operations, mergers and acquisitions for start up companies and spin offs. Clients ranged from multi-national corporations, such as JVC America as well as start up technology companies. At JVC Mr. Shadan lead development of Business Plan, Revenue model and Investment presentation with the JVC designated CEO of the new technology venture. Prior to founding ITG, he worked at Morgan Stanley for five years where he co-led development of a corporate investment and special situation investment advisory team.

He is currently serving as a Board Member of 4Points Technologies, Tonerico Technologies, and University of Northern California Foundation. Kamyar has a vast network in Government, Technology and the Financial industries with a concentration in US, Japan, India, Portugal, and UAE.

Kamyar holds an Associate in Science degree in Bio-engineering, a Bachelors degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology with a double minor in peak performance and holistic health. Kamyar has also completed studies in contracts along with other areas of Law at San Francisco Law School.

Kamyar was recognized as a Master instructor of Kung Fu in 1988. He serves on the American Chinese Martial Arts Federation. He has been deputized and contributes to the San Francisco Sheriff’s dept (Active) & Marin County Sheriff’s Dept inactive (Mounted Search&Rescue). He is a certified disaster manager by the Office of Emergency Services (California), a member of the International Diplomacy Council, Software Development Forum, United States Polo Association and serves on the executive committee of Technology Empowerment Network among other national and international organizations.