Board Members

Hamid Taeb With over 29 years of experience in home building and sub-division development, and over 1,000 homes built in the U.S. throughout his career, Hamid Taeb has established himself as one of the leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate community. As Founder and President of Century Land Corporation, he has lend his expertise, in providing paramount quality and value, to carefully crafted homes, with a goal of always building on and surpassing his prior accomplishments. He has served as a Board Member for three development companies and various homeowners’ associations. As a volunteer and a member of the Board of Directors of Persian Center since 1991, he has employed his extensive experience toward community building, non-profit organizations, fundraising and organizational development. His graduate studies in Architecture and Urban Planning, as well as his undergraduate degree in Environmental Design, are from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Niloofar Mohtasham-Nouri President of Persian Center, is a Principal of Corporate Development Partners, a management consulting firm. She has over seven years experience with high tech semiconductor, software, and internet firms in Silicon Valley in the areas of systems and organizational development, quality assurance, quality systems implementation, and strategic planning. She received a Masters in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research and a BA in both Mathematics and Near Eastern Studies, all from UC Berkeley. Additionally, she was a Lecturer at Cal State Hayward, President of Society of Iranian Professionals from 1997 through 1998, Vice President from 1996 through 1997, and Founder and President of Iranian Students Cultural Organization from 1988 through 1989. She has extensive experience in cultural event planning, organizing fundraising events, and grant writing. She authored "Iranians and Immigration," which was commissioned by the Zellerbach Foundation for K-12 Californian public schools.

Niosha Nafei Niosha Nafei Jamali has a BA in psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz. A former Miss Iran, Niosha established Niosha Dance Academy in 1991, and has taught the art of dancing to over 1000 students and put on many dance shows andperfomrances throughout the Us and the Bay Area. She has performed in variety of International & Cultural events. Niosha has been an active volunteer for Persian Center for the past 6 years. Niosha's experience also includes acting as an officer (1998-99) as well as a volunteer for the Society of Iranian Professionals. Niosha is married and has 3 sons. Her goal as one of the board of directors is to ensure that Persian art, music and dance remains alive and well in Northern California. Her passion is being involved in event planning and fundraising for a stronger Persian community. Being a cancer survivor she is determined to put on fantastic shows and raise money for cancer patients and raising awareness in Persian community to help finding a cure.

Mandana Alizadeh Baradar Mandana is a Market Research Analyst at Varian Medical Systems with over 25 years of experience with Biotech, Pharmaceutical firms and Medical Devices in the Bay Area focusing on Pharmaceutical Research and Development, project management and marketing. She received her Masters of Business Administration in Marketing from University of Phoenix and her Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mandana is passionate about strenghtening the sense of trust, and teamwork in Persian Community in the Bay Area and around the world. She believes in the creation and necessity of having a stronger Persian Center in the Bay area for our children and future generation to come. Mandana has been an active member of the Persian community for the past 25 years. Her community involvement began with the Society of Iranian Professionals (SIP) in 1984 where she was a volunteer in the Iranian Support Committee addressing the needs of Iranians in the Bay Area. In 1993, she was among the first volunteers and founding members of the Persian Center. She continued by helping in the organization and establishment of Persian language classes for children at the Persian Center in the Redwood City office. As a board member, she has been involved in the fundraising efforts in the purchase and pay-off of Persian Center in Berkeley, partnerships with other Persian businesses and community efforts. Mandana is married and has two sons. Her family has always been supportive of Persian Center activities by acknowledging Persian Center as a premier Iranian cultural organization in the Northern California.

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Past Board Members;

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Bijan Sartipi

Majid Nik Tehrani

Rezvan Moghaddam

Nooshin Soleimani

Nastaran Sohrabi

Saman Soheili

Nasrin Amiri

Nader Tajbakhsh

Tirdad Omidian

Hassan Amiri

Morteza Samak

Alireza Nazmi