Farshad Tavakoli

Farshad Tavakoli is an accomplished professional in technical product marketing, currently serving as Senior Manager/Lead at PayPal since August 2022, where responsibilities include developer product marketing for payment solutions through API and SDK integrations. Previously, Farshad held the Director position and was the founding PMM Lead at Northern.tech from 2019 to 2022, establishing the product marketing function and owning the Mender.io website. Earlier experience includes roles as Manager of Product Marketing at HARMAN International, focusing on go-to-market strategies for connected home consumer electronics, and Manager of Technical Product Marketing at NextInput, where efforts centered on a human interface solution. Farshad also spent nearly a decade at Qualcomm leading market adoption initiatives in IoT and Smart Devices. Educational credentials include an MBA from Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management and a B.A.Sc. (Honors) in Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, with additional studies at Stanford University.