9 years experience in the technology, media, and telecom (TMT) practice of McKinsey & Company where he served wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, and numerous media companies on digital strategy and new business development. He was also a founder and leader of McKinsey’s multi-year, multi-million dollar iConsumer research effort focused on digital consumer behavior and co-led McKinsey law recruiting across North America

He has additional experience working in the Office of the Chairman of the FCC; investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Company; and in corporate law at O’Melveny & Meyers in Silicon Valley. Parviz has served on the Board of Trustees at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, a nationally recognized school with approximately 1,200 students and as a Member (governing body) of TechnoServe, which operates in over 20 emerging markets seeking to develop and grow local businesses

J.D. from Yale Law School as an Olin Fellow and A.B. from Cornell, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa

12 years professional and academic experience focused on indoor positioning and wireless communications. 4 years as researcher at Skyhook where he was a named inventor on 6 granted and pending patent applications focused on WLAN based location technologies. Staff member at Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. CWINS received the first NSF grant in modern wireless communication and has helped convene key IEEE symposia and working groups on local wireless networking

Published author of numerous articles and book chapters on wireless indoor location technologies. Ph.D. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and B.S. from Sharif University of Technology