Reza Kazemipour brings more than 16 years experience in corporate strategy and business development, strategic alliance relationship management, and sales. He has a proven track record for leadership and for negotiating partnerships and mergers and acquisitions that position enterprise software companies for long-term growth. He has held executive management positions at Fast Search & Transfer, Cerebra and IBM.

Before joining Siderean, Mr. Kazemipour served as Fast Search & Transfer’s regional vice president of sales for the Western region. While at Fast, he grew the West coast sales organization and added substantial revenue to the company during his tenure. He developed sales strategies and coached his teams to expand business and penetrate many new, flagship customer accounts.

Prior to Fast Search & Transfer, Mr. Kazemipour was vice president of OEM sales and strategic alliances at Cerebra, Inc. He identified, sold, and grew Cerebra’s OEM and alliance relationships based on market growth trends and new business requirements. He was also critical in bringing enterprise solutions to market leveraging system integration partners and he negotiated OEM and reseller contracts covering branding, distribution, pricing, support and marketing arrangements. Before Cerebra, Kazemipour was vice president, strategic channels at Selectica, Inc., where he expanded channel partnership opportunities that led to multi-million deals in his first five months, established growth-oriented business relationships leading to additional quarterly revenues, and negotiated and researched mergers and acquisitions and buy-out offers.

Earlier in his career, he also worked on business development at IBM, responsible for selling software through and to system integrators, worked in strategic alliances at TIBCO Software, and in sales and marketing at Doclinx.com, an enterprise software company focused on data retrieval and search engine technology.