Bobby Yazdani
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Bobby Yazdani is the founder and CEO of Saba Software
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Yazdani founded Saba in 1997 and took the company public in 2000.
Since becoming CEO, Yazdani has grown Saba into a US$100+ million business.
Yazdani is also an angel investor. His investment portfolio includes companies such as Clearspring, Dropbox, Google, Shelby TV, Klout, Kissmetrics, Medialets, Webs.com, Salesforce.com, Cleversense, HotPrints, Qwiki, 1000memories.com, Bonobos, Masimo, Boticca, Nextbio and SoundHound.
Yazdani holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.
In 2001, Yazdani was named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Based on his leadership Saba has also won a number of awards, including:
Yazdani is a frequent spokesperson at industry events held by such organizations as the United Nations and The Economist. He has written numerous technical and business papers including “Human Capital Development and Management: The Next Generation of Virtual Integration Across the Extended Enterprise.”
Prior to founding Saba, Yazdani served as Senior Director at Oracle Corporation. Previously, he held various senior management positions leading the product development teams for Oracle Context and numerous generations of Oracle’s core database products.
Saba Software
Saba enables organizations to build a transformative workplace that leverages the advent of social networking in business and the ubiquity of mobile to empower an organization’s most mission-critical assets – its people...
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Yazdani founded Saba in 1997 and took the company public in 2000.
Since becoming CEO, Yazdani has grown Saba into a US$100+ million business.
Yazdani is also an angel investor. His investment portfolio includes companies such as Clearspring, Dropbox, Google, Shelby TV, Klout, Kissmetrics, Medialets, Webs.com, Salesforce.com, Cleversense, HotPrints, Qwiki, 1000memories.com, Bonobos, Masimo, Boticca, Nextbio and SoundHound.
Yazdani holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Career
Yazdani started Saba, meaning "knowing," in 1997. Saba Learning was the first product; since then, the product line has integrated and expanded into a unified suite of People Cloud Applications delivered as software-as-a-service. Under his leadership, Saba acquired THINQ Learning Solutions in May 2005, Centra Software in 2006 and Pedagogue Solutions and Comartis in June 2011.In 2001, Yazdani was named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Based on his leadership Saba has also won a number of awards, including:
- 2011 Launch Pad Award at Enterprise 2.0 Conference
- 2011 Stevie Award for Favorite New Software as a Service for Saba Social
- Bersin & Associates’ Vendor Innovation Award for Saba Live
- Best Advance in Social Learning from Brandon Hall
- Information Management’s 40 Vendors We’re Watching in 2010
- Forbes Magazine’s "Most Trustworthy Companies, 2010"
- Chief Learning Officer’s "Excellence in Learning Management Systems"
- HR Executive’s "Top HR Product Award" for Saba Impressions
Yazdani is a frequent spokesperson at industry events held by such organizations as the United Nations and The Economist. He has written numerous technical and business papers including “Human Capital Development and Management: The Next Generation of Virtual Integration Across the Extended Enterprise.”
Prior to founding Saba, Yazdani served as Senior Director at Oracle Corporation. Previously, he held various senior management positions leading the product development teams for Oracle Context and numerous generations of Oracle’s core database products.
External Links
- http://www.saba.com/
- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saba-Software/217941281551226
- http://twitter.com/#!/SabaSoftware
- http://www.youtube.com/user/SabaSoftwareTV?blend=10&ob=5
- http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bobby-yazdani
- http://people.forbes.com/profile/bobby-yazdani/69509
- http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=243295&ticker=SABA:US
- http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/04/05/tidbits2.html