Farzad Nazem serves as Advisor at SignalFire. He serves as Board Member at Nautilus Biotechnology. He also serves as Strategic Advisor at January AI. He earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors. He serves on the boards of NextBio and HAND Foundation. Farzad (Zod) Nazem is former Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo! Inc. At Yahoo, Mr. Nazem also served as Executive Vice President of Engineering & Site Operations, Senior Vice President of Communications & Technical Services, and Senior Vice President of Product Development & Site Operations. Prior to Yahoo, Zod held a number of technical and executive management positions at Oracle Corporation, including Vice President of Oracle's Media and Web Server Division. Nazem earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors from California Polytechnic State University.