With a prolific resumé of projects and the development of Leaside Manor, Shane Baghai has maintained his dominant role in the development industry and has no plans to slow down.

Shahrzad Rafati is the founder and CEO of BroadbandTV Corp., a digital media and technology company that provides content creation, distribution, management, and monetization solutions. Shahrzad has built BroadbandTV as a quadruple bottom line business and measures success across employee, community, environmental, and financial KPIs, citing a workforce of over…

Shahrzad Mojab is an academic activist and professor, teaching at the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education and Women and Gender Studies Institute, at the University of Toronto. Before joining the University of Toronto in 1996, Shahrzad taught and worked at University of Windsor, Ryerson University and at Concordia…

Sam Mizrahi is a Canadian real estate developer who is active in Toronto. Mizrahi is best known for being the developer of “The One” skyscraper at the intersection of Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto. Outside of his work at Mizrahi Developments, Sam is highly regarded as a generous and…

Reza Moridi is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2018 who represented the riding of Richmond Hill. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Kathleen Wynne. He was the first Iranian-Canadian elected to…

Payam Akhavan is an international lawyer and professor at McGill University in Montreal. He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and a designated arbitrator/conciliator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank Group.

Since 1989 Parviz Tanavoli has lived and worked both in Tehran and Vancouver, Canada. One of the most famous artists and sculptor around the world. His latest solo exhibition was in 2019 at the West Vancouver Art Museum entitled “Oh Nightingale”. His works has been displayed at the British Museum…

Nazanin Afshin-Jam is an Iranian-Canadian human rights activist, author and public speaker. She is a former Miss World Canada. She is also president and co-founder of Stop Child Executions as well as the founder of “The Nazanin Foundation”.

Nassim Varasteh, is a Canadian karateka born in Iran in 1981. Nassim is known for the silver medals she won in women’s individual kumite under 60 kilos at the 2006 and 2008 world karate championships. Now she is a member of Canada National Coach Kumite.

Michael is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 2018 general election. He represents the riding of Aurora – Oak Ridges – Richmond Hill, and is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Michael Latifi is an angel investor. He is a businessman and entrepreneur who founded Sofina Foods Inc., a Markham, Ontario-based manufacturer of processed protein products, in 2006, becoming its Chairman and CEO. His company acquired Lilydale in a C$130 million deal in 2010 and Santa Maria Foods ULC, an importer…

Mehrdad has been actively involved in preserving and reviving Iranian culture, a subject that is close to his heart. Over the course of years of volunteer work, he has served as chair and board member for many organizations devoted to promotion of Iranian culture and intellectual heritage within academia, Iranian…

Majid Jowhari is a Canadian Liberal politician who represents the riding of Richmond Hill in the House of Commons of Canada. He was first elected in the 2015 federal election and was re-elected in 2019. He is the first federal nominee and candidate of Iranian heritage. Jowhari is one of…

Karim Hakimi is an Iranian Canadian entrepreneur and optician, known for founding Hakim Optical, a large chain of eyeglass stores across Canada. At first, he sold his lenses door-to-door, directly to optician shops. From this beginning as a single retail outlet, Hakimi has built Hakim Optical into a national chain…

Persis Holdings Ltd., founded in 1981 by Hassan Khosrowshahi. Persis has made substantial investments in several sectors including land development, high rise development, shopping centres, retail real estate, pharmaceutical royalties, entertainment royalties and retail. Khosrowshahi had an estimated net worth of $1.16 billion in 2016.

In 2020, Gina Parvaneh Cody was named one of Canada’s Top 25 Women of Influence. In 2018, following her donation of $15 million, Concordia University renamed its faculty of engineering and computer science after her (the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science), making it the first university engineering…

The Ghermezian family is a Persian Jewish family who have developed several of the world’s largest shopping malls. The family’s estates include the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta and the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. In 2011, the family’s Triple Five Group acquired the troubled Xanadu Meadowlands project…

Fazlollah Reza was a Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS for his contribution to network and information theory. He was an honorary member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature and wrote and spoke extensively on classical Persian poetry. Reza served as the head of Aryamehr University of Industry (Sharif University of Technology),…

In 1989, Ata and Neda Moeini immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto. The Moeinis quickly realised that they are a part of a greater market of newcomers needing to connect home, so in 1991, they launched Gold Line Telemanagement Inc. to fill this void in the most practical and…

Amir Khadir is a Canadian politician in the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA), Canada for the electoral district of Mercier, and the first male spokesperson for Québec solidaire, a sovereigntist and left-wing political party. On December 8, 2008, Khadir became the first, and at that time, only elected representative for…

Ali Khademhosseini is the Director and CEO of the Terasaki Institute and former Professor at the University of California-Los Angeles where he held a multi-departmental professorship in Bioengineering, Radiology, Chemical, and Biomolecular Engineering and the Director of Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics (C-MIT). Previously, he was also a Professor at…

Ali Ehsassi is a Canadian politician currently serving as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Willowdale, Ontario riding of Willowdale in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election. Ali’s victory marked a historical milestone, as he is one of the first two Canadians of Iranian heritage…

In 2001, the founder of Parya, Mr. Ahmad Reza Tabrizi, along with co-founders Mrs. Zarrin Mohyeddin and Dr. Fahimeh Mortazavi decided to work together in order to establish a facility to provide culturally appropriate, Persian-language services to the Iranian-Canadian community, particularly seniors. He also  is a co-founder and board of…