Hamid Farzaneh

Hamid Farzaneh is a veteran Silicon Valley CEO passionate about building innovative high tech companies. He is a charismatic and high energy leader who believes in the business philosophy of “differentiate or die”. He focuses on empowering teams of outstanding people and driving for time-to-market and complete customer satisfaction.

Hamid co-founded Alea Labs, Inc. in 2015 to develop and market products aiming at making the archaic HVAC industry smart, user-friendly and energy frugal. Prior to Alea, he co-founded Rover Health in 2012 to create manufacturing-ready platforms that enabled entrepreneurs to bring innovative “Wearables” products to market in record time. Prior to Rover Health, Hamid was CEO of Optilux, of Varioptic and of DisplayLink, COO at Atheer, Motion Sense & Genesis Microchip, and EVP at Silicon Optix.

Hamid holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées of Lyon, France and an MBA from Golden Gate university of San Francisco, CA.