Behnam Behrouzi
Behnam Behrouzi
Founder & CEO
Ben Behrouzi founded DotNext in 2006 and serves as CEO of the company. Behrouzi has over 13 years in building and managing successful start-ups, building management teams, developing core technology infrastructure and leading product design and architecture. An aggressive entrepreneur, Behrouzi brings a solid track record of developing profitable and high growth oriented online business products and services. Behrouzi is responsible for the overall direction and strategy of the DotNext family of companies.
Prior to founding DotNext, Behrouzi co-founded Reply.com in June of 2001 and lead the company as CTO and Executive Vice President, leading the full detailed architecture and engineering of Reply.com's service products and state-of-the-art technology infrastructure. Behrouzi strategically developed and utilized the company's complete line of services and technology platform to help lead the company from 0 in revenues with boot-strapped funding to $17M in funding in 2005 and $30M in revenues in 2006. Behrouzi lead the production of over 20 multi-million dollar profitable service provider products and services, the Reply.com website, as well as an enterprise team coupled with a technology infrastructure that drove the company’s great success.
Behrouzi is a frequent consultant for young founders and startup organizations in the San Francisco bay area and enjoys providing guidance in startup architecture, agile software engineering and scalable technology infrastructure. Behrouzi studied Philosophy at the University of California at Davis and is always looking ahead to building the next big innovation.