Mohsen Moazami

Mr. Mohsen Moazami is a member of the Office of the CEO and President of International at Groq, the world’s fastest AI inference engine. He was previously the Founder and Managing Partner of Seif Capital, a technology investment and advisory firm based in Silicon Valley. Mr. Moazami currently serves as a Senior Advisor to both Blackstone and Siguler Guff ($20B AUM), and is an Operating Partner at Kestrel Partners in London (kestrelpartners.com), which focuses on driving value creation in under-researched, business-critical software companies listed on the UK Stock Exchange. Until recently, he served as Chairman of Astrea Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: ASAX), and he continues to serve as a board member or senior advisor to a number of venture-backed startups including X-Energy, Axiom Space, Vcinity, Edgecloud Link (ECL), Ethernovia (backed by AMD and Marvell), among others. Mr. Moazami began his career as the Founder and CEO of Stanford Business Systems (acquired by Accenture), followed by a 12-year tenure at Cisco, where he spent his final four years in executive leadership of the Emerging Markets division, overseeing $6 billion in revenue. He later co-founded CNTP, a global multi-stage technology investment firm with $300 million AUM, focusing on cybersecurity, big data analytics, gig economy platforms, and SaaS. Notable early-stage investments include Matterport (IPO), DoorDash (IPO), Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche), and Bracket Computing (acquired by VMware). He also served on the board of Global Capacity, a telecom company that was successfully turned around and sold to GTT for $150 million. Mr. Moazami holds a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Sciences with a Minor in Economics from UC San Diego. He was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2010.