Education & Training
Institute of Industrial Managers – Certificate & Diploma in Industrial Management
City & Guilds 730 – Teaching Certificate in Adult Education
City & Guilds Full Technological Certificate – Mechanical Engineering, Product Design
Variety of professional training courses during career including:
§ Total Quality Management (Cranfield Institute) - related quality discipline courses
§ Project Management & Control
§ Jaguar Management Development Programme
§ Microsoft Certified User - Distance Learning
Languages
Farsi (Persian), Tourist level German and Beginner Spanish
Professional
Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute
Notable Achievements
§ Awarded the OBE by the Queen of England in June 2001 for services to British commercial interests in Iran.
§ Introduced the first National Car for Iran launched as the Samand. Involved from inception to public launch in 2001, creating the first Design and Development R&D centre in Iran.
§ Introduced first national car development project (facelift) for Uzbekistan in 2007-8
§ Started own successful business twice, providing project management services and management consulting to the car industry