Shervin Pishevar

Named “Bill Gates’ Worst Nightmare” by the Financial Times, Shervin Pishevar is a visionary technology entrepreneur, published researcher and technology incubation expert, best known for helping usher in the on demand web computing era and the visionary behind the first web operating system with his first startup, WebOS. Shervin is President of Freewebs, the 2nd largest web publisher in the world with over 14 million members and adding 1 million members every 60 days. Shervin has an extensive track record for technology innovation and his achievements have been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, LA Times, CNN and CNBC and Slashdot.
 
These accomplishments include independently inventing a patented new method for lysing Malaria infected erythrocytes while Shervin was an undergraduate at UC-Berkeley (Patent Number 6,384,015) along with 3 other allowed patents, to creating CNET’s Top 5 Web Application in 2000 (Hyperoffice), to winning Computer Shopper’s Top 100 Technology Products of 2002 (Argentum), to raising millions in financing for companies he has cofounded or led, in areas from distributed computing to an advanced mobile graphics and gaming company. Shervin is a published researcher with peer-reviewed articles published in JAMA and Neuroscience Letters when he was 19 and 20 years old. His patented malaria research was conducted while he was in high school and at the University of California at Berkeley. His four patents are in such fields such as distributed computing, mobile commerce, data aggregation and collective commerce.
 
Shervin founded his first company, WebOS (myWebOS), in 1997 when he was 23 years old and raised over $10 million for that venture from such investors as Adam Dell’s Impact Venture Partners and Grotech Capital. WebOS created the world’s first distributed operating system (patents pending) that heralded the dawn of a new era in advanced on demand windows-like web applications complete with a set of powerful API’s for developers. He pioneered the concept of “On Demand Services” through WebOS — a vision that is now, in 2006, being acknowledged with ushering in a new era of web computing. He is most proud of having assembled the greatest minds in the WebOS space from Erik Arvidsson, Dan Steinman, Dan Savarese and Dr. Amin Vahdat all in one company.
 
Subsequently, Shervin advised such venture funds as the Vanderbilt University Technology Company (VUTC), the venture fund of Vanderbilt’s $2.3 billion endowment fund, on their portfolio companies as well as serving as a Director of Seges Capital, a multi-university venture consortium. In 2001 he founded Ionside Interactive, a leading award winning PocketPC software company, Application Corporation, creators of the Hyperoffice messaging and groupware suite, advised Elipse Networks and serves on the Board of Freewebs.com, the top 3 free web hosting company in the world. Products Shervin has created have won awards such as the 2002 Top 100 Technology Award by Computer Shopper Magazine (Ionside’s Argentum), Top 5 Web Applications (Hyperoffice) by CNET and the NY Times Advertising Design Award Finalist (Elipse’s Evian Design).
 
Shervin worked previously as a Research Associate at Kaiser Permanente, Presidential Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, IRTA Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and Summer Research Fellow at M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. He also founded and was the Editor-in-Chief of Berkeley Scientific, the first peer reviewed undergraduate research journal in the nation and recruited a premier editorial board including Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg.
 
He is a former elected member and Vice President Pro Tempore of the Montgomery County Board of Education (Maryland) where he helped direct and manage one of the largest and highest quality school systems in the nation with over 120,000 students, 15,000 teachers and an annual budget over $1 billion. He held memberships in such national and regional educational organizations as the National School Boards Association (NSBA), National Federation of Urban-Suburban School Districts (NFUSSD), American Association of School Administrators (AASSA) and the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABE).
 
Shervin has been interviewed numerous times on National Television shows like Powerlunch on CNBC and Fox News seeking his opinion on such topics as the Microsoft case, the Internet and distributed computing. He has also been featured or interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times and Newsweek.
 
He earned his B.A (Interdisciplinary Studies) from the University of California at Berkeley. Shervin completed over a year of graduate course work in Health Economics at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health with a 4.0 GPA.
 
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