Friday Coffee Meet Up Podcast

Episode 81: From Immigrant to Entrepreneur

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Amir will share his experience as an immigrant entrepreneur. We'll learn how he overcame the challenge of losing his father as a teen and moving to the US from Iran, and how he became committed to entrepreneurship and solar power. Bio: Amir Salahi, CEO and Founder of EnergyAdvisorHub.com and SolarYellowPages.com Throughout his career, Amir has held a wide variety of key management and business development positions, including Regional Sales Manager, Channel Manager and Sr. Energy Consultant at SolarCity; Territory Sales Manager with PHAT Energy; Application Engineer at Acuity Brands Lighting; CEO of Pars Contractors, Inc. Among his proudest achievements was assuming the contractor duties for the International T. Tower, a 54-story building, which had been delayed by the original contractor. Amir and his team completed the Tower ahead of schedule. Amir earned his bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering with honors. As part of his studies, he employed sophisticated algorithms to develop efficiencies within electr