About the Author

Dariush Rafinejad, Ph.D., has over 30 years of executive leadership experience in product innovation, development, and commercialization at global high-technology companies in the semiconductor and solar energy industries as well as with several start-up companies. He is also Founder and President of Blue Dome Consulting. Previously, he served as Corporate Vice President at Applied Materials Corporation and Lam Research Corporation, where he led the development and commercialization of numerous successful products.Dr. Rafinejad holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, a professional Executive Engineering Management Certificate from Stanford University, and conducted post-doctoral research at Imperial College in London, England. He is a widely published author and currently a professor and core faculty member at Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco, where he teaches Master of Business Administration courses on Sustainable Products and Services and Sustainable Energy Management. Dariush was previously an Associate Professor - Consulting at Stanford University, an adjunct professor at the Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Dean of Management at Menlo College in Atherton, California. He is also the author of Innovation, Product Development and Commercialization and currently resides in Los Altos Hills, California.