Ashkan Yousefi, PhD

Ashkan Yousefi, PhD has had a diverse career in product management and engineering. From 2011-2015, they worked as an Electrical Engineer for Western Power, where they were responsible for the safe, reliable and affordable transmission and distribution of electricity to customers in south Western Australia. In 2015, they moved to Khosro Medisa Teb, where they worked as a Project Manager. In 2017, they became a Visiting Research Fellow at UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. From 2018-2019, they worked as a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young Global Consulting Services and a Product Manager at Investage. Ashkan also served as a Mentor at Springboard in 2019. Currently, they are a Product Manager at PAXAFE, where they are developing a product from initial conception to clear specifications, wireframes, and a product roadmap for digitizing the logistic network with the use of big data analytics and machine learning.

Ashkan Yousefi holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from The University of Western Australia, obtained in 2013. Ashkan then earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Sharif University of Technology in 2016. In 2017-2018, Ashkan Yousefi completed a Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business in Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies. Additionally, Ashkan Yousefi has obtained certifications from Google, Coursera, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IEEE, and more.