Borna Banafshe

Borna Banafshe has a diverse work experience spanning a variety of roles and industries.

Starting with their most recent position at DataStax, Borna serves as an Enterprise Account Executive, focusing on developing the usage of Astra DB and Astra Streaming with new customers in Northern EMEA. Prior to this, Borna worked as an Enterprise Account Development Executive at Instabase.

In the field of business development, Borna has worked at both Confluent and Cvent. At Confluent, Borna served as an Enterprise Business Development professional, with a focus on the EMEA region. In this role, Borna helped pioneer real-time data infrastructure and promoted Confluent's cloud-native offering as a key platform for data in motion. Similarly, at Cvent, Borna held roles as a Senior Business Development Representative and a Business Development Representative, specifically within the Hospitality Cloud sector.

Borna also has experience in the finance industry, having worked as an Investment Analyst Intern at Roma Capital and as an Investment Risk Analyst at CheckRisk.

Additionally, Borna's entrepreneurial spirit is exemplified through their role as a Co-Founder of Henleywatch, a social media brand providing rowing news reporting and a social network for rowers. Borna also served as the Club Captain for the Liverpool University Boat Club during their time at university.

Lastly, Borna has volunteered as an A level Mathematics Tutor at Action Tutoring, showcasing their commitment to education and helping others.

Overall, Borna's work experience highlights their versatility, with skills and expertise in account management, business development, finance, entrepreneurship, and education.

Borna Banafshe completed a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Liverpool from 2013 to 2017. Following this, from 2017 to 2018, Borna pursued an MSc degree in Investment Management at Cass Business School. In terms of additional certifications, Borna obtained the "Bloomberg Market Concepts" certification from Bloomberg LP in July 2017. Furthermore, Borna also obtained the "Global Monetary Policy" certification from Singapore Management University in May 2018. Most recently, in September 2021, Borna obtained the "Filling the Funnel" certification from JB Sales.