Ali Amin-Javaheri is co-founder and CEO of Knowde, a diversified B2B marketplace connecting thousands of buyers and sellers in markets ranging from chemicals to food and nutrition. Under Amin-Javaheri’s leadership, Knowde has become a powerful platform that connects thousands of suppliers — more than any distributor, marketplace or middleman organization in the history of the industry — with tens of thousands of R&D and procurement professionals.
Prior to Knowde, which Amin-Javaheri and his partners launched in 2017, he served in senior management positions in marketing and technology at ChemPoint, a unit of Univar Solutions involved in digital sales and marketing for multiple industries. He majored in information systems at the University of Washington and obtained his MBA at Northwestern University- Kellog school of Management.