Naeem Zafar
‘81 ScB, Vice President
Naeem is a serial tech entrepreneur, 5X CEO of Silicon Valley startups, an angel investor, and teaches courses on Entrepreneurship at the University of California Berkeley and at Northeastern University. After Brown with an electrical engineering degree, he was exiled to the frozen tundra of Minnesota for graduate school and has been in Silicon Valley since 1988. After teaching ENGIN 1010 at Brown, while commuting from SF Bay area, he founded Startup-Advisor, a company focused on educating and advising entrepreneurs on all aspects of starting and running a business (www.Startup-Advsior.com)
Sci Li days: "It took me a long time to find out that there is another library on campus. Other than flipping between Barus & Holley and Ratty I spent every day in the basement of Sci Li that had a vibrant social scene."