Feyzi has spent his career building high-performance high-tech organizations. These include multiple business units at HP and four technology start-ups in Silicon Valley and in Southern California. Two of these companies were named among the annual Red Herring 100, with valuations from $100 million to $1 billion. Most recently, Corent won the 2009 Emerging Software Company of the Year award.
Feyzi has been a keynote speaker around the globe including speaking at events at Harvard Business School, Wharton, Stanford, Pepperdine, Cal Tech, and UCLA.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in Solar Engineering, a master’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA in International Management. He received his director and corporate governance certificate from UCLA and is a graduate of Anderson School of Management’s prestigious M&A program.
Feyzi was elected to the board of the Technology Council of Southern California in 2007 and the Chairman of its Orange County chapter in 2008. More recently, he was named to the IBM Partner Advisory Council as well as to the Engineering Leadership Council at the University of California at Irvine.
Today, most independent software vendors (ISVs) are pondering their plan down the future software path called Software as a Service (SaaS). Some of these ISVs have embarked on the journey of re-architecting their software for SaaS and some are testing the waters with a few customers using hardware virtualization (such as VMware) that is functionally not much different from the old ASP (Application Service Provider) model of the late 1990s. There is definitely a trend of traditional ISVs moving to SaaS; in fact, it is not easy to find any traditional enterprise software startup that has been funded since 2003. It’s clear that SaaS is the future mainstream direction.
Dr. Cindy Gordon, the CEO of Helix Commerce International and the co-author of "Why Buy the Cow?" interviews Feyzi Fatehi and analyzes the SaaS - PaaS market.
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