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December 2016 Newsletter
Issue II
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Limited Seating. RSVP Required!
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WOMEN, TECHNOLOGY, iBRIDGES
On December 8-10, several Iranian-American women executives in the high-tech sector, many of them IAWF members, including
Susan Akbarpour,
Anousheh Ansari,
Bita Milanian,
Roya Soleimani,
Linda Bernardi,
Nina Seghatoleslami and Mariam Ziaei, all met in Barcelona to participate as subject matter expert speakers at the iBRIDGE conference. These ladies among many other Iranian-American women have played a significant role in the advancement of the global technology sector. iBridge Barcelona united such leaders of Iranian descent to share and exchange knowledge and experience with the younger generations to develop promising ideas into businesses.
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Featured IAWF Sponsor: Soraya Hendesi, SNOWBERRY
Founder of Snowberry anti-aging skin care brand, Tehran born Soraya Hendesi left Iran with her family in 1976 to the U.K. She has since lived in the U.K., Canary Islands, Spain, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, San Francisco and now resides in New Zealand. Snowberry, the brand she created is recognized by industry professionals worldwide, as one of the world's most innovative brands. Snowberry is a natural skin care range that also benefits from a long-term investment in innovative skin science. Founder, Soraya Hendesi, who originally hails from Tehran and now a New Zealand citizen, set out to create anti-aging skin care that is as natural as possible but which also takes advantage of the latest and safest of dermatological science the world has to offer.
Says Soraya Hendesi, "I love nature but when it comes to skin care I want it to be able to do more - and that's really only possible when you can incorporate the kind of scientific advances that we have achieved, this past few years."
From a research program of some 5 years at the University of Auckland School of Pharmacy a collaboration between Snowberry's Chief Scientist Dr. Travis Badenhorst and a team of the University scientists created a world-first delivery system for the skin remodeling copper tripeptide 1, a naturally occurring, multi-functional peptide that is instrumental in skin healing that will stimulate natural collagen and elastin production; as well as helping to counter one of skin's worst enemies - persistent inflammation.
Snowberry had their New Radiance Face Serum subject to gold standard clinical trial at Germany's Dermatest Medical Research Institute, which showed that the serum will reduce wrinkle volume by an average of 25.6% in only 8 weeks - a remarkable result, which out-performs many prescription-only retinoic acid treatments and Retinol as well as one of the USAs top selling serum. It is rare for cosmetic products to go through such scrutiny, with most beauty industry "clinical tests" being less rigorous, and sometimes self-reporting.
On the basis of this innovative antiaging science and the clinical trial, the New Radiance Face Serum was the only anti-wrinkle product in the world, invited to be presented to the 23rd World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver.
This is not the first time Snowberry has gained international attention:
Snowberry winner of:
Best Niche Brand - Beauty Astir - The Netherlands 2011
Most Innovative Brand - Cosmoprof USA, 2011
Silver Dieline Award - Chicago - Best Global Brand 2010
Runner Up Most Favourite Brand, Cosmeeting Paris 2010.
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Sheila Mortazavi
New York
Sheila Mortazavi is a partner at Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, a law firm
that specializes in intellectual property matters, and is based in the New York office.
Her practice covers all facets of intellectual property litigation and counseling, with a particular emphasis on patent infringement litigation across a wide range of technologies. She advises clients on litigation strategy in complex patent cases, and has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving consumer electronics, electrical connectors, automotive components, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. She has also represented clients in unfair competition and trademark matters. In addition to litigation, Ms. Mortazavi counsels clients on procurement and transfer of intellectual property rights, negotiation of licenses and other agreements, and evaluation of the scope, validity and enforceability of intellectual property rights.
Visit Sabrina's IAWF profile
here.
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Marjan Moinzadeh
Northern California
Dr. Marjan Moinzadeh, PhD; is a licensed clinical psychologist providing mental health services in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more than twenty-five years Dr. Moinzadeh has provided her services as a clinician and as a researcher in private practice, community counseling centers, adult day care centers, universities, and hospitals - both internationally and domestically. She is also part-time faculty at Argosy University, teaching graduate level psychology courses. Dr. Moinzadeh has also been involved in organizing & promoting nonprofit community organizations that help individuals in all aspects of their lives. She take a holistic, compassionate, and integral approach to healing which emanates from traditional as well as contemporary disciplines of Eastern and Western psychology, philosophy, science, and spirituality. Her focus is to better understand universal consciousness as well as to provide her services to those individuals in need of healing, growth, empowerment, & transformation.
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isit Marjan's IAWF profile
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Mehrnoosh Kadkhodaei
Southern California
Born in Tehran, Iran, Mehrnoosh Kadkhodaei (JEWELRY BY LADY M), is a fine jewelry designer who has worked in the fine jewelry industry, and sales much of her career, while her creative side has experimented in different art mediums along the way. In 2011, after receiving her certificate in gemology from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), she became a full-time jewelry designer and LADY M was born. Her work can be found online on her website:
www.jewelrybyladym.com
, and local business and professional exhibitions. Jewelry By Lady M has produced costume designed, fine jewelry ever since. Her designs are made from white, yellow, rose, and black gold and each uniquely decorated with certified diamonds and gemstones stones.
Fine sele
ction of Jewelry, Certified diamonds, White gold, Yellow gold, Engagement ring, Wedding band, Custom design, Watches, and jewelry repair.
Visit Mehrnoosh's IAWF profile
here.
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Circle of 1,000 Featured Member:
Gisue Hariri is the Co-founder and Creative Principal Director of Hariri & Hariri Architecture, a New York- based multi-disciplinary architecture & design firm established in 1986 by Iranian-born Cornell-educated sisters Gisue Hariri and Mojgan Hariri. Today they are celebrated as two of the most accomplished women in American architecture & design and are described as one of the most progressive and out- of-the-box firms. Their projects are holistic, boundary-less enterprises ranging from master-planning and architecture to interior design, furniture, lighting, product design and jewelry. The Hariri's are known for their luxury residential developments, single-family houses, hotels and high-concept, high-tech experiments. Gisue Hariri has devoted time to teaching since 1987 and has been an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, a Visiting Critic at Cornell University, McGill and Parsons School of Design. The Hariri's have been honored with numerous awards including the '2015 American Architecture Award' from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum and the 2005 "Academy Award for Architecture" from American Academy of Arts and Letters. They were inducted into the ʻDesign Hall of Fameʼ in 2006 & were named as one of today's greatest talents by the prestigious Architectural Digest in 2010. Ms. Hariri was included on the DESIGN POWER-100 list in 2014.
V
isit Gisue's IAWF profile
here.
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