Houman Akhavan

Houman Akhavan has extensive experience in marketing and digital strategy. Houman is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at CarParts.com since February 2019. Houman is also a Board of Directors member at Polished since January 2023 and a Customer Advisory Board Member at Blueshift since April 2021. In the past, they served as a Retail Advisory Council Member at Google starting from April 2020. Prior to that, they founded Growth Rocket, a full-service digital marketing agency in January 2015.

Houman also has a long history with CarParts.com, where they held various roles. Houman was the Vice President of Marketing from January 2006 to December 2014 and played a key role in its initial public offering and multiple acquisitions. Houman also founded Idea Launch, Inc. in August 2004, where they worked as the CEO and grew CarParts.com's private label revenue. Earlier in their career, they co-founded eDigitalWeb, Inc. in February 2000 and served as the Chief Strategy Officer, leading the internet marketing efforts for CarParts.com and ThePartsBin.

From 1998 to 2000, Houman Akhavan attended Mt Sierra College, where they pursued studies in Computer Information Technology. The provided information does not mention the completion of any degree at Mt Sierra College during this period.