Profile - Saeed Amidi
Saeed Amidi is the President and CEO of the Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley.
Saeed is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies. He has been a technology investor since 1996 and he co-founded Amidzad Partners, a seed and early-stage investment firm focused on investing in emerging growth companies, with Pejman Nozad and Rahim Amidi in 2000.
He has been closely involved with more than twenty new emerging growth companies, 2 of which became public companies (PayPal (acquired by eBay) and Preview Systems). His investments include DoveBid, Crosslayer Networks, Paypal, Affinity Engines, Gabbly and Sigma Quest.
In 1980 Saeed co-founded the Amidi Group, a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic (US) and international entities with significant manufacturing, distribution, trading, retail, and real estate holdings. For the past 23 years, he has chaired and spearheaded the operations and management of a number of the Amidi Group entities, growing the aggregate value of its assets under management to over $250 million.
Saeed is an active member of the technology community and a frequent contributor to numerous charitable foundations. He is also an active member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO), a world-class network of Fortune 500 CEOs, accomplished serial entrepreneurs, and veteran financial executives.
