I-AIM Team

Executive Board

Dr. Ali Mostashari

Strategic Initiatives Advisor for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its New York City Headquarters. 

Mr. Siamak Namazi

Partner of Atieh Bahar Consulting, Iran's premier private strategic consulting firm. 

Dr. Hazhir Rahmandad

Professor at Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Virginia Tech.

Dr. Ali Zuashkiani (I-AIM President)

Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Asset Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

 

Advisory Board

Mr. Hossein Akbari is partner and managing director of Aryana Industrial Research Group.  

Dr. Ali N. Mashayekhi is a Professor of Management at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.

Dr. Hossein Nivi is the Dean of University of Detroit Mercy's College of Business Administration.

Dr. Seena Rejal is Chairman and founder of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Associates (CEA) Ltd.

Dr. Mostafa Ronaghi is a principal investigator at Stanford Genome Technology Center.

Dr. Zahed Sheikholeslami is the Director of the Project Based Learning Institute at the California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly).

 

Other Team Members

Mr. Ahmad Anvari

Ahmad Anvari is currently a Lead Analyst in a high-tech firm in Mountain View, CA. Prior to that has was a Sr. Systems Engineer at Oki America, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA.   

 

 Mr. Ehsan Ehsani

Ehsan Ehsani is working in Product Innovation & PLM practice within Accenture Supply Chain Service Line in Madrid Office. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, an M.S. in Production and Operations Management from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and another Master of Supply Chain Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Zaragoza International Logistics Program.

 

Mr. Navid Ghaffarzadegan
(Director of  Visiting  Lecturer Program)

Navid Ghaffarzadegan is a PhD student in Public Administration and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany. He got his BS in Mechanical Engineering and his Master in Business Administration, both, from Sharif University of Technology.

 

Mr. Hamed Ghodoosi

Hamed Ghoddusi is a PhD student of finance at the Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF). He has received a post-graduate diploma in quantitative economics from Institute for Advance Studies (IHS), Vienna also MBA and B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering both from Sharif University of Technology.

 

 

Mr. Iman Hajizadeh

Iman Hajizadeh is a PhD Candidate in Operational Management, Rotman Business School, Toronto, Canada.

 

  

Representatives in Iran

Ms. Roja Amininezhad

Roja Amininejad is a master student of entrepreneurship at University of Tehran. She received her B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

 

Mr. Saeed Eslami

 

Ms. Neda Nazmi (I-AIM focal point in Iran)

Neda Nazmi is focal point of I-AIM in Iran. She received her MA in Political Thought in Islam from Allameh Tabatabaei University and her BA in Political Science from Tehran University. 

 

 

Mr. Keyvan Vakili

Keyvan Vakili is currently an MBA student in Sharif Universtity of Technology. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology at year 2006. His main research interests are System Dynamics, Strategic Management, Institutional Economics and Change Management.