Science & Technology

• Hired a smuggler in 1986 to help him escape from Iran (his birthplace) to Pakistan, where he lived for two years. He then ended up with his brother in San Francisco with $70 between them.
• Following graduation, founded Autoweb which went public in 1999. Left Autoweb to found Caspio, Inc., which empowers end-users to quickly create online databases, Web applications and Web forms—all without writing code.
• Caspio's clients include Capital One, ESPN, UPS, Deloitte and Century 21.
• Caspio earned a place in the top 1,000 companies on the 2010 Inc.com 5,000 list at No. 779, thanks to an extraordinary three-year growth rate of over 388 percent.
• Caspio is a self-funded company owned by its employees and is a certified green business.

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Notable CSU Graduates in Science & Technology

Diane Anderson	Patricia Compas-Markman	Robert Embree	Kevin Evans
Norm Fjeldheim	Kosta Grammatis	Joel Heinrichs	Said Hilal
Margaret (Peggy) L. Johnson	James Kardach	Matthew R. Landano	Pervaiz Lodhie
Amir Mashkoori	Robert Meza	Peter Oppenheimer	Mark Otero
Rebecca Rhoads	Jeanne Sheldon	Nancy J. Stoyer	William H. Swanson
Farhang (Frank) Zamani