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Bobby Bahram
Managing Partner at Excelerate Health Ventures
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Hospital & Health Care
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Bobby Bahram's Overview
Current Managing Partner at Excelerate Health Ventures
Board of Directors at RTP Capital
Past CFO & COO at TransLoc Inc.
Board member at RTP CFO Forum
co-Founder, COO & CFO at RadarFind Corporation
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Education North Carolina State University
The George Washington University
Clemson University
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Bobby Bahram's Summary
An energetic and creative operating executive with a solid operations and financial background, strong leadership and people skills, a results-oriented mentality, and extensive experience in successfully creating, building, and growing companies in the software, hardware, manufacturing, and services environment.
Specialties
business leadership; new company creation; team building; growth management; equity & debt financing; strategy development; M&A; IT management; financial planning, analysis, and reporting; contracts; hardware and software development; HR management; and manufacturing
Bobby Bahram's Experience
Managing Partner
Excelerate Health Ventures
February 2012 – Present (7 months) RTP, NC
Board of Directors
RTP Capital
January 2010 – Present (2 years 8 months) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
CFO & COO
TransLoc Inc.
January 2010 – January 2012 (2 years 1 month)
Board member
RTP CFO Forum
January 2010 – December 2011 (2 years) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
co-Founder, COO & CFO
RadarFind Corporation
January 2004 – November 2009 (5 years 11 months)
Director of Business Development
MCNC Research & Development Institute
February 2004 – January 2005 (1 year)
CFO & COO
Peracom Networks (Broadband Home)
January 2001 – January 2004 (3 years 1 month)
Director of Finance / Finance Manager
Home Director
January 1999 – January 2001 (2 years 1 month)
Product development and business analysis related positions
IBM
1995 – January 1999 (4 years)
Bobby Bahram's Education
North Carolina State University
MBA, Finance and Technology Commercialization
1998 – 2001
The George Washington University
Certifications in project management and contracts
1999 – 1999
IBM / George Washington University Project Management school, 1999
Clemson University
BS, Electrical Engineering, cum laude
1992 – 1996
Bobby Bahram's Additional Information
Honors and Awards:
o Top CFO Award, Products category, Triangle Business Leader Media, 2009
“Jenkins Helped Me Segue from Technology to Business,” Bobby Bahram ’01 Says.
Dec 08, 2011
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By Debbi McCullough
Bobby Bahram ’01 is a serial and successful entrepreneur. Since graduating from the Jenkins Graduate School of Management in the NC State University Poole College of Management in 2001, Bahram went on to cofound RadarFind Corporation, a venture capital-backed healthcare IT company in Research Triangle Park, acquired in 2009. He's been director of business development for MCNC Research & Development Institute and chief financial officer and chief operating officer of two additional venture-backed companies.
Bahram is currently chief financial officer and chief operating officer for TransLoc Inc., a Raleigh startup giving passengers real-time information for the university, healthcare and public transportation markets. The technology allows commuters to see via their handheld devices or a public screen precisely where their bus, rail or subway is at any moment. Bahram was hired in 2010 to help drive the company through its next stages of growth. "I just love startups, especially profitable growing ones," he confesses.
Humble beginnings
Bahram didn’t always feel destined for the entrepreneur life. He grew up in Iran and moved to Turkey with his parents when the government there became too unstable. His dad worked as a professor teaching business and engineering and his mom as an accountant. Bahram had finished 8th grade when his family moved to the U.S. and his studies progressed so well that he began college a year early.
Bahram received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and worked at jobs that gained him excellent experience upon graduating. For instance, he worked for the IBM Software Division and IBM PC Division in various business analysis, product development and testing roles. Even so, he realized without an MBA degree he lacked the business acumen required to commercialize technologies. “I needed an MBA to help me segue from technology to business.”
Bahram chose the part-time MBA program because of its technology focus, its proximity to RTP and because the schedule allowed him to continue working at IBM as he studied.
What he learned
Bahram selected the Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (TEC) program and immediately felt at home. He says his professors were “fantastic” and "experts at bringing the real world into the classroom." His fellow classmates were also well-established in their careers and exposed him to many different disciplines. “I learned a great deal from my classmates and professors,” Bahram says. He describes the course work as “a mixture of rigorous and stimulating activities with highly pragmatic and hands-on projects.”
Launching a startup
Perhaps the best thing he gained from his studies was how to think critically and analytically, how to first create dynamic teams and then use his business skills to launch a startup. With skills he acquired as part of his TEC program capstone project, Bahram created the business plan that lead to the spin-off of a business unit from IBM called Home Director. This raised $55 million in venture and strategic capital in the process. Upon graduating, Bahram was recruited by Peracom Networks, Inc. He saw the company through three years of growth before selling to Cross Bar Media.
Managing growth
His MBA degree has also been instrumental for Bahram’s work with TransLoc Inc. Already the company has perfected the technology for use in the university marketplace and now is moving into municipalities. In October 2011, TransLoc launched GoLive. This project integrates several transit agencies information into a single mobile and web interface. This year the company added 15 new clients from five different states and in August made it into the prominent list of top North Carolina companies to watch. “We’re making real headway. Now is an exciting time for TransLoc,” Bahram says.
Even today, a decade after graduating from the Jenkins MBA program, Bahram says the skills and training he received there are still relevant. “I’m immensely grateful for all I learned from Jenkins and the relationships I formed there I will maintain for the rest of my life.”
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