Rasoul M. Oskouy – CEO
Rasoul is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Oskouy Group Family Office, managing investments in various early-stage companies and capital preservation via various instruments, including financial and Real Estate.
Rasoul is a Silicon Valley veteran with 25+ years of experience in technological innovation and corporate leadership. As CEO of Oskouy Group, an early-stage investment firm based in Palo Alto, Rasoul invests in select startups with disruptive technologies backed by strong intellectual property assets. Rasoul was among the founding members of Juniper Networks, the first company that brought high-speed routing internet connectivity globally to consumers and enterprisers. Juniper Networks filed for an IPO and started first trading on the NASDAQ in June of 1999. Rasoul was a co-founder at Parascale, a cloud storage company that was acquired by Hitachi Data systems in 2010. Prior to Juniper, Rasoul held senior engineering and management roles at Sun Microsystems, Computer Vision, Wang Laboratory, and Advanced Micro Devices. Rasoul has been an advisor to and investor in startup companies, including Lantern Communication, CrossLayer Networks, and some other privately held companies. Rasoul earned a BS and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in 1981. Rasoul holds over 34 patents in networking, routing, and related technologies.
SANAZ OSKOUY – GENERAL COUNSEL AND ADVISOR
Sanaz is the General Counsel and legal advisor to The Oskouy Group and oversees the company’s investment contracts and other legal matters. Sanaz is currently the General Counsel and Head of Legal at Gradle, Inc., a software company providing tools to optimize build automation and developer productivity. Previously, Sanaz was a corporate associate at Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, where her practice focused on venture finance and emerging growth companies. Prior to her time at Gunderson Dettmer, Sanaz was a corporate associate in the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where her practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and public company corporate governance.
Sanaz received her Juris Doctor (JD) from Duke University, School of Law in 2016, and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Communication from the University of Southern California in 2013.