Noosheen Hashemi

Noosheen Hashemi is founder and CEO of January.ai, a precision health company. An angel investor and business advisor with a focus on disruptive ideas and platforms, Hashemi has more than three decades of experience building the leadership and execution capabilities of early stage companies to deliver growth and profitability on a global scale.

Along with her husband, Zod Nazem, Hashemi manages a family office with a diverse portfolio of over 90 startups and several limited partnerships in various funds. She is an advisor to Cloud Lending Solutions, a global cloud infrastructure company; Radius, an insights-driven marketing intelligence platform; and AnyRoad, an experiential marketing platform for the world's most innovative brands.

Hashemi spent the early part of her career at Oracle Corporation where, as Vice President of Finance and Administration, she built the critical sales and administrative capacity that allowed the company to scale revenues from $26 million in 1985 to $3 billion in 1995 and a market cap of $19 billion.

A philanthropist and outspoken advocate on behalf of the vulnerable and disenfranchised, Hashemi is also the cofounder and president of HAND, a family foundation that provides financial, advisory, and advocacy support to hundreds of organizations and dozens of scholars and social entrepreneurs dedicated to protecting the young, and promoting the socioeconomic growth and advancement of individuals. Hashemi serves on the advisory boards of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Ploughshares Fund, and Eurasia Foundation, and is a Harold Pratt Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Hashemi's philanthropic efforts have been honored by the World Affairs Council, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and Girl Scouts of America. She has been recognized as one of Gentry magazine's top 50 philanthropists in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Born in Iran, Hashemi emigrated to the United States as a teenager. She holds a BS in economics from San Jose State University and an MS in management from Stanford Graduate School of Business.