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| Dariush Afshar |
| President and CEO |
A 2001 graduate of Georgetown University with a BA in Business Administration, Dariush founded Digital Volunteers with a vision. He wanted to provide an online service which would help to bridge the digital divide worldwide by providing nonprofit organizations with access to technology-savvy people and equipment.
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| He founded Digital Volunteers in 2001, after years of involvement in community service and social entrepreneurship led him to see a need that was going unmet. At Georgetown, he was Founder and Chair of the Youth Venture chapter which matched John Carroll Scholars and Washington area high school students seeking to establish their own businesses and associations. He worked for Virginia Governor Mark Warner on programs that address the lack of access to technology for Virginia citizens. In 2001-2002, Dariush was a Fulbright Scholar in France where he investigated the costs of financial distress to the telecommunications industry, resulting from the significant financial debt assumed during the 3G licensing auctions. He has also conducted field research in the Czech Republic on the ethical challenges facing business executives in Central and Eastern Europe. He was an intern with the International Telecommunications Union at the UN in Geneva. He also worked for the Department of Agriculture's Fund for Rural America, distributing distance-learning grants to American farmers. He has also studied Graduate Economics at the University College Cork, in Ireland, where he served as a George Mitchell Scholar from 2003-2004. Dariush has also worked as a Business Analyst in McKinsey & Co.'s Silicon Valley Office, focusing on high-tech clients. He is currently a member of the Corporate Business Development Group at Cisco Systems where he focuses on both wireless and global investment and acquisition opportunities. Dariush also serves on a number of for-profit Boards as a representative of Cisco in its portfolio companies. |
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| Tudor Hulubei has served as the Senior Software Developer for a number of fast growth high-tech enterprises over the years, including Ecora Software Corporation, Astrum Software, and most recently EMC Corporation. A native of Romania, Tudor has lived in the United States for about a decade, where he has pursued his education as a Teaching Assistant and been a PhD candidate in Computer Scienceat University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, including studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tudor has also earned a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire, as well as "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Department of Computer Science. He began his education in technology at "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Department of Computer Science. Tudor has been exposed to the internet for a long time, and can appreciate its importance in the spread of valuable content and using the internet as a medium for helping to bridge the digital divide. |
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Ahmad Anvari is a Senior Systems Engineer at Advertising.com, a subsidiary of AOL-Time Warner, where he is instrumental in helping them to test algorithms and run queries on a very robust IT network upon which AOL depends for its advertising relationships with its partners. Before Advertising.com, Ahmad was a Senior Systems engineer at Oki America, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA.
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Ahmad Anvari is a Senior Systems Engineer at Advertising.com, a subsidiary of AOL-Time Warner, where he is instrumental in helping them to test algorithms and run queries on a very robust IT network upon which AOL depends for its advertising relationships with its partners. Before Advertising.com, Ahmad was a Senior Systems engineer at Oki America, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA.
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Before Oki, he was with Open Telephone Network, a telecom company in Berkeley, CA where he worked as a system/network administrator and senior web programmer, developing mainly the front-end view of OtelCORE Notify using Java and JSP technologies.
Prior to joining OTELNET team, he had worked at Morva Systems, where he was responsible for the development of online applications and web-based account management systems in Perl and PHP for Internet Service Providers. He has co-founded two leading online information providers IranSource.com and Pendar network where he's worked as CTO and lead web architect.
Ahmad serves as the Chairman of the Board at FestiveArt, an online resource for the original Persian art. He has also co-founded 7rooz, an online events database targeting the Persian community. He often talks about technology at Haftegi Radio, which he co-founded in 2005.
Ahmad holds a Master's degree in Software Engineering - Program Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology where his main research focus was Information and Internet Technology.
Ahmad also runs a website which has been ranked among the top sites in terms of internet traffic globally (see Anvari.org).
A native of Iran, Ahmad understands the value of technology and the power it has to enable people from disadvantaged communities to lift themselves up out of poverty and improve their educational options. |
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| Kelby Johnson |
| VP Public Relations |
Kelby Johnson is experienced in the field of public relations and partnerships in the telecommunications industry, at companies like Ciena Communications. Having worked for Burson Marstellar in Washington, DC, Kelby is very familiar with the world of Public Relations.
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He is seasoned in the art of spreading the word about an exciting idea. He therefore brings a strong skill set to the Digital Volunteers team in helping to raise awareness about the global digital divide and how Digital Volunteers is doing its part to help address the need for universal telecommunications service access. Kelby is also a graduate of Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he earned a Masters Degree. He has also worked for the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, Switzerland. |
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| Leila Afshar |
| Co-Founder and Business Manager |
Leila Afshar has been involved with Digital Volunteers since its inception. She helped to establish the nonprofit with Dariush and brings to Digital Volunteers significant research experience. Leila Afshar has been involved with Digital Volunteers since its inception. As a Co-Founder of Digital Volunteers, she is a member of the Board of Directors and helped to establish the organization with Dariush, based upon a shared vision of something that was missing in the technology community. She brings to Digital Volunteers significant editing experience in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. She has edited, translated, and conducted contracts and market trends research for the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, in the Paris office. She has also edited reports and publications for the Brookings Institution Center for Public Service, including "Health of the Human Services Workforce," which researched the employment and training conditions of human services workers. Leila is a 2006 graduate of Yale with a B.A. in English.
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