Naeem is a part of the faculty of Haas Business School at the University of California Berkeley where he teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the MBA program. Naeem is also with Concordia Ventures and focuses on educating and advising entrepreneurs with all aspects of starting and running a company. Naeem has been with six startups and has extensive experience in mentoring and coaching CEOs. He is now starting his next venture under the name of Institute for Service Organization Excellence (ISOE).
His last assignment was the president and CEO of Pyxis Technology Inc., a company specializing in advanced chip design software for nanometer technology. Naeem has been president and CEO of two other high tech startups (Silicon Design Systems and Veridicom, a Bell Labs spin-off that invented the silicon fingerprint sensors today found on most laptops). Naeem has held senior marketing and engineering positions at several companies including Quickturn Design Systems that had an IPO in 1993 and grew to $125M in revenues. Naeem holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Brown University (magna cum laude), Rhode Island, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Naeem is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and charter member of OPEN (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America) where he also serves as a member of the executive committee. He also serves on the Board of Numetrics Ltd. and is a part of advisory board for five other companies. Naeem is also involved with microfinance ventures in Pakistan (Rural Asia) and Mexico (CREA).
Tariq Rana
Tariq is known for delivering bottom line results, cost control, improving poor performing stores, opening new stores within budget and time frame, training and development of General Managers, Supervisors and high potential managers for large retailers in the United States.
He obtained his BSEE from California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and a Certificate in the Executive Management Program from Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He served as the director of Asian American Resource Center at CSULA for 14 years. He provided life-line to the Center through an era of budgetary dislocation and coordinated outstanding forums and symposia which received National recognition.
Tariq has been in retail business since 1983. He is a consultant to small businesses in sales promotions, marketing, starting new businesses, management and exit strategies. He co-teaches a Retailing Management class at LA College International, a frequent lecturer at local Universities and in South East Asia.