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Farzad Naimi is a serial entrepreneur and a co-founder of LiteScape Technologies. Farzad brings twenty-one years of successful Silicon Valley startup leadership to the company and is responsible for leading the LiteScape team and managing its strategic direction. Farzad started his high-tech career at a start up, Centex Telemanagement, as the head of Technology, and led Centex to its IPO, which preceded its subsequent acquisition by MCI. He continued his career as Executive Vice President and COO at Prestige International, Japan's largest Customer Relationship Management organization that later had a successful IPO in Japan. Farzad was a co-founder of Genesys Labs, a leader in delivering real-time customer interaction software solutions to medium- and large-sized businesses, that went public and was subsequently acquired by Alcatel for $1.6 billion. He participated in a successful start up, VisaNet do Brazil, funded by Visa International and four major banks in Brazil. VisaNet do Brazil has become the largest e-commerce and retail banking group in Latin America and one of the most profitable companies in Brazil. Farzad has been the co-founder and chairman of several other companies including IQLabs, an enterprise software company specializing in real time IT infrastructure provisioning and management, and Sentek, a profitable global system integrator with clients such as American Express, Master Card, Visa and other major financial institutions.As a member of adjunct faculty at Golden Gate University, Farzad taught MBA courses in its School of Industry and Technology. Farzad is actively involved with Entrepreneurship Programs at Stanford University and the National University of Singapore. | 