Ali Amirnazmi is the principal founder and president of TranTech. He has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University. He also holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Business from Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, and Tehran University where he was ranked number one. His professional experience comprises over thirty years of senior level management and staff positions in industry, including TranTech, Stauffer Chemical, Stanberk, Bechtel, and Hercules. Since forming TranTech in 1981, his expertise includes strategic planning, database structure design, chemical engineering, plant and process design, market research and research and development. He is the inventor of ChemPlan, a database/software decision support system, used by the CPI since 1986.