Dr. Javad Kashefi, aka Dr. Kash, has over 45 years of experience in Finance. He is currently Executive Vice President of EZPricebooks.com Company and a financial adviser to Xitore Company. Prior to that, he was the CFO of Anabasis-Straub Information Development Technologies. He resided on many Boards of many companies.

Dr. Kashefi was appointed vice president to serve the American University of the Middle East. He was the Chair of the Finance, Real Estate, and Law Department for 16 years at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Dr. Kashefi has published widely in journals including the International Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Management, International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, and Journal of International Finance and Economics. He has also authored over fifty business cases. He is a member of the Los Angeles CFA Program Educational Committee and has conducted numerous workshops for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Level I and II.

Dr. Javad Kashefi received his Ph.D. degree in Finance from Claremont Graduate University. He has been a faculty member at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, since 1982 and a Full Professor since 1986.