Fasha Farshad Mahjoor

Fasha Farshad Mahjoor is the Founder and CEO of Phenomenex, Inc.

Business career

Fasha Mahjoor was born in Iran and emigrated to the UK as a child. He attended Manchester Metropolitan University to earn an undergraduate degree in architecture, and then completed his masters degree in architecture at the University of Southern California in 1980. He then formed a boutique architecture firm in Beverly Hills, California.^[2] In 1982 Mahjoor left the field of architecture to found the company Phenomenex in 1982, a distributor of British-made chromatography columns. The company began making its own columns in 1984.^[3] The company also employed 477 people by 2007, and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top small businesses in American in 2008. Part of the reason for this comes from Mahjoor's attempts to integrate entertainment activities and other amenities into the workplace.^[4] His efforts in this manner were profiled in the book Organizational Behaviour.^[5] In 2010 Majhoor was a finalist for the Greater Los Angeles Entrepreneur of the Year sponsored by Ernst & Young.^[1] The company now employs over 700 people with offices in 15 different countries.^[2] Though not a practicing architect, he has designed many of the office buildings for his company.^[6] In 2013 Mahjoor was named one of the 100 most influential people in the analytical sciences by The Analytical Scientist.^[7]

Other activities

Mahjoor is known in the Los Angeles business community for his humanitarian efforts, which are also applied through his companies.^[8] In September of 2012, he leapt from the 87th floor of the Shard building in London, Europe's tallest building, in order to raise money for The Outward Bound Trust, an educational charity.^[9] Mahjoor has previously been a board member of the Farhang Foundation.^[10] In 2013 he was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.^[11] That year he was also elected to the Board of Directors for the American Red Cross, Los Angeles Region.^[12]

Most recently, he purchased a vacant property adjacent to Del Amo Fashion Center that SunCal once owned.^[13] He is also the founder of Neoteryx, a manufacturer of microsampling devices used for collecting and testing biological samples.^[14]

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