SHERVIN

Named "Bill  Gates' Worst Nightmare" by the Financial Times, Shervin is a visionary technology entrepreneur and published researcher. Shervin published critical research in JAMA at the age of 20 which helped lead to the Istanbul Protocal, banning  physician involvement in state torture. He continued his high school science project at UC-Berkeley and LBL under a UC President's Fellowship, which led to his first patent on a new strategy for targeting and lysing malaria infected erythrocytes. At UC-Berkeley, Shervin was founder and Editor-in-Chief of Berkeley Scientific, the first undergraduate peer-reviewed research journal and recruited a peer review board comprised of such luminaries as Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg. Berkeley Scientific is still going strong after 10 years of continual publication. 

Shervin is the co-founder and CEO of Social Gaming Network (SGN), which he helped incubate from within Webs.com Inc. SGN has grown to over 500 million pageviews a month and over 6 million users in its first 100 days since September 2007 (www.sgn.com).

 
Shervin is a Board member of Freewebs (http://www.freewebs.com/) the 2^nd largest web publisher in the world with over 20 million members and adding 1 million members every 60 days. Shervin was President of Freewebs since January 2005 until becoming CEO of SGN and  helped build Freewebs from 3 employees and riased over $12 million in venture funding from Columbia Capital and Novak Biddle Venture Partners to help fuel the growth of Freewebs.
 

These accomplishments include independently inventing a patented new method for lysing Malaria infected erythrocytes while Shervin was an undergraduate at UC-Berkeley (Patent Number 6,384,015) along with 2 other allowed patents, to creating CNET's Top 5 Web Application in 2000 (Hyperoffice), to winning Computer Shopper's Top 100 Technology Products of 2002  (Argentum), to raising  millions in financing for companies Shervin has co-founded or led, in areas from distributed computing to an advanced mobile graphics and gaming company. Shervin is a published researcher with peer-reviewed articles published in JAMA and Neuroscience Letters when he was 19 and 20 years old. His patented malaria research was conducted while he was in high school and at the University of California at Berkeley. His four patents are in such fields such as distributed computing, mobile commerce, data aggregration and  collective commerce.

Shervin's first start up helped usher in the on demand web computing era. Shervin was the visionary behind the first web operating system with his first startup, WebOS Shervin founded his first company, WebOS (myWebOS), in 1997 when he was 23 years old and raised over $10 million for that venture from such investors as Adam Dell's Impact Venture Partners and Grotech Capital. WebOS created the world's first distributed operating system (patents pending) that heralded the dawn of a new era in advanced on demand windows-like web applications complete with a set of powerful API's for developers. Shervin pioneered the concept of 'On Demand Services' through WebOS- a vision that is now, in 2006, being acknowledged with ushering in a new era of web computing. Shervin is most proud of having assembled the greatest minds in the WebOS space from Erik Arvidsson, Dan  Steinman, Dan Savarese and Dr. Amin Vahdat all in one company.

Subsequently, Shervin advised such venture funds as the Vanderbilt University Technology Company (VUTC), the venture fund of Vanderbilt's $2.3 billion endowment fund, on their portfolio companies as well as serving as a Director of Seges Capital, a multi-university venture consortium. In 2001 he founded Ionside Interactive, a leading award winning PocketPC software company, Application Corporation, creators of the Hyperoffice messaging and groupware suite, advised Elipse Networks and serves on the Board of Freewebs.com, the top 3 free web hosting company in the world. Products Shervin has created have won awards such as the 2002 Top 100 Technology Award by Computer Shopper Magazine (Ionside's Argentum), Top 5 Web Applications (Hyperoffice) by CNET and the NY Times Advertising Design Award Finalist (Elipse's Evian Design).

Shervin worked previously as a Research Associate at Kaiser Permanente, Presidential Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, IRTA Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and Summer Research Fellow at M.D. Anderson Cancer Research Center. He also founded and was the Editor-in-Chief of Berkeley Scientific, the first peer reviewed undergraduate research journal in the nation and recruited a premier editorial board including Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg.

Shervin is a former elected member and Vice President Pro Tempore of the Montgomery County Board of Education (Maryland) where he helped direct and manage one of the largest and highest quality school systems in the nation with over 120,000 students, 15,000 teachers and an annual budget over $1 billiond. He held memberships in such national and regional educational organizations as the National School Boards Association (NSBA), National Federation of Urban-Suburban School Districts (NFUSSD), American Association of School Administrators (AASSA) and the Maryland Association of Boards of Education (MABE).

Shervin has been interviewed numerous times on National Television shows like Powerlunch on CNBC and Fox News seeking his opinion on such topics as the Microsoft case, the Internet and distributed computing. He has also been featured or interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times and Newsweek.

Shervin received his B.A (Interdisciplinary Studies) from the University of California at Berkeley.  Shervin completed over a year of graduate course work in Health Economics at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health with a 4.0 GPA.