Bijan Marashi

Current

• Yahoo Apps Division Product Management/Xoopit Founder at Yahoo!

Past

• CEO & Co-Founder at Xoopit
• Exec Strategy & Product Development Consultant at Telecom Italia
• Exec Strategy & Product Development Consultant at Gruppo Espresso - Kataweb

• Sr. Product Manager at Inktomi Corporation
• Product Manager at SPRY/Compuserv
• Test Intern at Microsoft

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Education

• Georegtown University

Recommended

11 people have recommended Bijan

Connections

330 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• ovarecords

Bijan Marashi’s Summary

Entrepreneur. Team Builder. Design Strategy.

Currently working on new startup in SF. If you are an amazing engineer and want to work on great products with an awesome team, please contact me.

I am a strong product designer, product manager, sales leader. Able to generate something from nothing and to enroll large groups of diverse people behind a mission.

I love amplifying the possibility of people and to help you articulate a cohesive vision and action plan for a dream.

Bijan Marashi’s Specialties:

Developing simple, useful and powerful internet systems for any platform: web, desktop, pocket, and information retrieval systems.

Strong technical skills in world of personal data management, search engine technologies, user interface design, and boiling ideas down into a concrete product with focus and strong marketing.

Bijan Marashi’s Experience

• Yahoo Apps Division Product Management/Xoopit Founder

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

• CEO & Co-Founder

  Xoopit

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  2003 — October 2009 (6 years )

  Xoopit has a top-notch engineering team who led the way at companies such as Yahoo/Inktomi, Network Appliance, Tellme, Liveops, Cloudmark, Microsoft, Netscape, X1 and Telecom Italia. We run, bike, DJ, adventure, photograph, cook, paint, and rock the piano.
  
  If you are an engineer looking to rock with an extraordinary team, we would love to connect with you! http://www.xoopit.com/jobs.html

• Exec Strategy & Product Development Consultant

  Telecom Italia

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

  May 2002 — December 2002 (8 months)

  Technology Strategy Consulting & Product Development Projects to Executive Team, Telecom Italia, Rome/Milan, Italy. Developed product plans for Search & Content Management products.

• Exec Strategy & Product Development Consultant

  Gruppo Espresso - Kataweb

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2000 — August 2001 (11 months)

  Technology Strategy Consulting & Product Development Projects to Executive Team, Kataweb/La Repubblica Media Group, Rome, Italy. Developed product plans for Content Management System, Search products.

• Sr. Product Manager

  Inktomi Corporation

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  December 1997 — May 2000 (2 years 6 months)

  Led Search Engine releases for Inktomi Search Products. Led Product Management effort behind Directory Engine RxD & Product Deployment. Directory Engine classifies over 1 billion web pages into a large taxonomy like Yahoo's. Supported major field sales efforts, custom product design for Inktomi customers, roll outs in the US & Europe.

• Product Manager

  SPRY/Compuserv

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  June 1994 — August 1996 (2 years 3 months)

  Product manager of award-winning Internet-In-A-Box product, the world's first complete Internet Access Product with Mosaic, PPP Dialer, ISP Service. Intermittently led several releases between 1994 and 1996 (between school and full time job). Launched SPRYNET European ISP product. Co-Developed product plan for SPRYNET Web Community Products.

• Test Intern

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1991 — July 1993 (2 years 2 months)

  Test Intern on Microsoft Windows 3.11 and early Window 95 RxD. Windows Networking Team. Managed large labs of > 300 machines, to conduct network interoperability tests, OS compatibility with MS TCP/IP stack/client software.
  
  Summers of 1991, 1992, 1993

Additional Information

Bijan Marashi’s Websites:

• My Company
• ovarecords

Bijan Marashi’s Interests:

piano. yoga. energy=organic, (raw) food! search technologies to simplify every day things.