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