The Phenomenal Journey of Zhamak Dehghani, the CEO and Founder of Nextdata

A pioneer, author, and the undisputed queen of Data Mesh, Zhamak Dehghani founded Nextdata with a vision to solve the grand challenge of data management at scale. In this episode of The Tech Icon, she shares her experiences of growing up in the war torn country of Iran and how she channelized her anger and frustration to build and innovate. A self-confessed "troublemaker" and a technologist with more than 25 years of experience, Zhamak is a shining star in the male dominated world of tech. She did her bachelor’s in software engineering from the Shahid Beheshti University in Iran and her master’s from the University of Sydney in Australia. Today, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Adrian, and their eight-year-old daughter, Arianna.