Sohrab Vossoughi is an Iranian–American entrepreneur, product designer and founder of Ziba Design, a design and innovation consultancy based in

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, Oregon. He named BusinessWeek's Entrepreneur of the Year in 1992.

Early life

Sohrab was born in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

, Iran in 1956. He moved to the United States in 1971. After studying mechanical engineering for three years, he switched to study

industrial design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...

. He graduated from San Jose State University's Department of Industrial Design in 1979.

Career

Vossoughi joined

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Corp. In 1982, he began independent consulting for startup companies in Portland, Oregon. By 1984, he had launched a product development firm he named ZIBA Design.Laura Oppenheimer
"Portland's Ziba Design, where art meets science, turns 25,"
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'', August 1, 2009.

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