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Mr. Saeed (Sid) Mohasseb represents Tech Coast Angels on Clupedia’s Board of Directors. He is currently the Managing Director of Venture Farm - an early stage funding and execution firm. He is also an executive committee member of the Tech Coast Angels; Prior to Venture Farm, Mr. Mohasseb was the President & CEO of Vital Source - a global distributor of electronic components. The company is a highly profitable and one of the largest open market stocking distributors in the world. Prior to Vital Source, Mr. Mohasseb was the Chairman and CEO of Competitive Knowledge. Which served over 5,000 executives around the globe and claimed a number of the fortune 1000 and government organizations among its customers. Prior to Competitive Knowledge, Mr. Mohasseb founded Anabasis a national management consulting firm which eventually merger with Dan Straub & Associates. He served as the CEO of Anabasis-Straub. Prior to Anabasis-Straub, Mr. Mohasseb was the partner for corporate development / strategy at the national consulting firm of SGS Group. Some of his Fortune 500 clients included IBM, Union Bank, Motorola, NME, Mattel Toys, GTE, Paramount Studios, Toyota, Honda, Pacific Bell, Wells Fargo Bank, Hughes Helicopter, and McDonnell Douglas. His public sector efforts include work with government agencies throughout the U.S. on the city, county and state levels in multiple states including California, Texas, Alaska, Illinois, Arizona, Washington, Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada. Mr. Mohasseb has been instrumental in a number of acquisitions and turnarounds both as a principal investor and as a consultant/ operator (e.g. Leveraged Buy Out / Acquisition, turn around and disposition of NDT Systems, Inc. from Dupont). Additionally he has been involved with corporate equity and debt financing, working with the angle investors as well as venture capital and financial institution communities. As a Harvard Business School trained negotiator, Mohasseb has negotiated and structured numerous multiparty ventures. Mr. Mohasseb has authored several publications. He has also served as host and moderator for a national radio program on good business practices with a 7.5 million audience in the South West and Eastern part of the United States. | 