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Board Members

Nik Tehrani, President
Dr. Nik Tehrani is the founder and the President of Silicon Valley Chapter. Dr. Tehrani is an educator, teaching at UC Berkeley extension, California State University - East Bay, and Northwestern Polytechnic University in Fremont, CA. He has a PhD in Electronic Commerce from Northcentral University, MBA from Pepperdine University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Tehrani is also the Global Director of Program Management at Sanmina-SCI (Enclosures division), a leading EMS provider focused on delivering complete end-to-end manufacturing capabilities and highly complex solutions to technology companies around the world. Prior to Sanmina-SCI, he was the managing director of Majital Solutions in Fremont, VP of Sales and Engineering of ACI in Hayward, VP of Operations of COMAN Manufacturing, Inc. in San Jose, Sales Manager of Cobra Systems in Los Gatos, CA and Design Engineer at Stanford Applied Engineering In San Jose, CA.


	Mona Ameli, Board Member Mona Ameli is head of Global Marketing for a large US-based consumer goods company. With more than 15 years of international business experience, Ms. Ameli has held several executive marketing roles with multinational companies, where she has started, developed and expanded new business divisions, strategic alliances, and global brands across Europe, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Asia Pacific. She holds a Master in Business from University of Paris IX-Dauphine and a post Master in Marketing from University of Paris XI- Creteil. Ms. Ameli has had many years of social non-profit experience. She worked with the Iranian American Women Society in Southern California focusing on helping re-integrate women and families in shelters. She is also the founder of the California Association of Women Without Borders, an organization aimed at helping and empowering women facing life crisis as well as victims of domestic violence. Ms Ameli is a member of the National Association of Professional Women, a member and previous board member of Beauty Industry West.


	Marian F. Espinosa, Board Member Marian F. Espinosa is a Language Arts, Literature, and Economics Teacher for Alsion Montessori Middle-High School. She has a B.A. in Spanish and a minor in Criminology from The Ohio University. She lived, worked, and studied for 6 years in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. While in Mexico, she taught English as a second language to business executives and the general public at a private language school. Ms. Espinosa had the opportunity to serve her community through volunteer work with the American Consulate as a translator. She worked with the Mayan people with the outreach programs, to promote health care and education. Upon her return to the United States, she began teaching as a Montessori Teacher. She and her students have worked extensively in and about their local community through the Viola Blythe Center, Mission Rotary, Proyecto Corazon, and the Fremont Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Espinosa and her students look forward to reaching out globally through the UNA-USA.

	Donald W. Bradley, Board Member Dr. Donald W. Bradley is a psychologist, city planner, educator, and a retired USAF officer. He is President of the California Bay Area Graduate Chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta International Fraternity and past president of the Michigan Chapter of the American Institute of Planners, Presidio Reserve Officers Association, the California Planners Emeritus, Men of Emmanuel-Episcopal, Anglicans, and the Brittan Heights home owners association. Dr. Bradley also serves on the Northern California Chapter of the American Planning Association, and previously on the Boards of the Center for Psychological Studies, and Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. He teaches at Northwestern Polytechnic University and San Jose State U. and has taught at UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Davis, and Michigan State University. Colonel Bradley has served, worked, and consulted for the U.S. DoT, HUD, DoD, US Navy, El Camino Hospital, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Bradley has worked in Ethiopia, Eritrea and South America. He retired with over 50 years of military and pro bono overseas duty in the room where the U.N. charter was signed when it celebrated its 60 year anniversary in 2005.


	Saeed Seyed, Board Member Saeed Seyed is Director of hardware engineering at Cisco Systems. Saeed believes in giving back to community and have participated in non profit organization leadership initiatives in past few years. He believes in enhancing quality of life for all people. Saeed has a master degree from Santa Clara University in engineering.

Honorary Board Members

George Hsieh
Dr. George Hsieh is the President of Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU), has been dedicated to the fields of science, technology, and management for more than three decades. Dr. Hsieh also has been very active in supporting the advancement of higher education in the international communities, particularly in Asian countries. In the past twenty years, he has visited more than 200 institutions of higher learning and many high tech districts/parks in China, Taiwan, HK, Japan, Korea etc. and more than 100,000 attendees have attended and benefited from hundreds of speeches/ presentations/lectures given by him. In addition, Dr. Hsieh has exerted great efforts and made great contributions in promoting east and west cross cultural understanding as well as in cultivating business corporation between Asian companies and corporations in Silicon Valley.

Julio Ortúzar
Julio Ortúzar Prado is the founder, President and Rector of Universidad del Pacifico. During these four decades of prolific professional, managerial and educational work, Julio Ortúzar taught in different foreign universities, including USA, Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador and Bolivia, and some European countries such as Spain, France, United Kingdom, and Italy. Mr. Ortúzar received the Education Leadership Award, Oklahoma University, 1986; Education Award, Oklahoma City Advertising Club, 1986 and Honorary Citizen by the Government of the State of Oklahoma, 1986. At the present time, he is Vice-President of the Chilean Luxembourgian Chamber of Commerce, Vice-President of the Association of Universities of the Pacific, member of the North American Chamber of Commerce, and Member of the Chilean Spanish Chamber of Commerce.

Past Board Members

Farima Berenji, Sam Manoucheri, Ann Opara, Gretza Pazo, Paul Jones, Tariq Khanzada, Don Jones, Karen Oeh, Matt Dickstein, Vitaly M. Golomb, Helen Stewart, Heidi Binder, Alex Nadimi, Barbora Sieber, Candida Pazo, David Bibo, Dr. Fred Dalili, Dr. Gebriella Sechi, Dr. Jilla Behnam, Dr. Steven Lehane, Dyniece Abril, Elaine Koga, Felix Schupp, Gretza Pazo, Henry Tooryani, Jan Oeljeschlager, Jean Overstreet, Joelle Mehner, John Swan, John Winters, Johnny Khamis, Joice Akers, Judy Karkhoff, Kam Sihota, Karen Neilson, Ken Ravon, Kimberly Adamy, Kristen Leis, Larry A. Dickey, Luis Krytal, Maryam Babaki, Minoo Khalilian, Negah Angha, Queen Ann Cannon, Rakesh Modi, Randall Wyatt, Renee Connelly, Robert Yanez, Rosemary Van Der Laan, Saumil Mehta, Shyam Chetal, Steve Hirai, Steven G. Perry, Steven Lehane, Steven Pokriefka, Teresa Walker, Thomas Lams, Tom Gewecke, Tonya Mecum, Toral Mehta