Board Members

Hamid Taeb Owner/Director of CenturyLand Development Corp., a residential building and development company. He served as the Northern California Director of Boulevard Development for ten years, where he developed and built over 250 Bay Area homes. Previously, he worked for Chicago Development for nine years. He has served as a Board Member for three development companies and various home owners associations. His MA in Architecture and Urban Planning and BA in Environmental Design are both from University of Illinois, Chicago. Additionally, he has been married for thirteen years; his wife, Mojgan, and two children ages 10 and 11 all utilize and volunteer at Persian Center.

Shahin Tabrizi CFO of Persian Center, is the Certified Public Accountant, Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer of Black Mountain Spring Water, the largest independent bottle water company in the nation with over 60,000 customers. He has extensive auditing and consulting experience with Deloitte and Touche, a Big 5 accounting firm, and he received an MBA from Rutgers University. Additionally, he has served as President of Society of Iranian Professionals from 1988 through 1989, a Board Member of the United Nations Resource Center in 1998, and on the Board of Directors of the United Nations Association-USA, Silicon Valley Chapter. Also, he has extensive experience with community and organizational development, outreach activities, fundraising, and special event planning.

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 Alizadeh Baradar is a Marketing Specialist at Applied Biosystems Corporation in Foster City, California and one of the co-founders of IranSara.com, a private Internet Consulting firm where she has been acting as a Marketing Director. Mandana has over 16 years of experience with Biotech and Pharmaceutical firms 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 has been an active member of the Persian community for the past 16 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 (Farsi) language classes for children at the Persian Center in the Redwood City office. Mandana is married to husband Vahid Baradar of 15 years and they have two sons Shayan (11) and Rustin (4 1/2). Her family has always been supportive of Persian Center activities by acknowledging Persian Center as a premier Iranian cultural organization in the Northern California.

Past Board Members; Bijan Sartipi Rezvan Moghaddam Nooshin Soleimani Nastaran Sohrabi Saman Soheili Nasrin Amiri Nader Tajbakhsh Tirdad Omidian Hassan Amiri Morteza Samak Alireza Nazmi