Mohsen Moazami

Mohsen is a senior adviser to the Board of Kestrel, supporting the leadership team with his in-depth knowledge of the technology industry and extensive network, gathered from over 30 years in senior operating roles, and as a professional venture capitalist and adviser in Silicon Valley.

He is the President of International at Groq – the world’s fastest AI Inference engine. He is Vice Chairman of DDN, the world’s most powerful data infrastructure – the essential foundation powering the global AI revolution. He is also a senior adviser to Blackstone and Siguler Guff.

A graduate of Stanford University engineering school, Mohsen’s previous roles include founder and CEO of Stanford Business Systems (SBS), 12 years at Cisco, the last 4 of which were in the leadership of their Emerging Markets division, with $6 billion of revenue. He then co-founded CNTP, a global, multi-stage, technology investment firm, investing in security, cyber security, big data analytics, gig economy and SaaS applications. A sample of his early stage investments are: Matterport (IPO), DoorDash (IPO), Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche), Bracket Computing (acquired by vMware). Mohsen also served on the Board of a telecommunications company Global Capacity, where he helped oversee a turnaround of the business, a $150m acquisition and the ultimate exit of the company.