Angel Vossough

Angel is an accomplished technology leader and social entrepreneur. Growing up, Angel always had a fascination with science and technology, and fulfilled this passion by earning two bachelor degrees in Mathematics and Computer Engineering in Iran, and then moving back to the United States to earn her Master’s degree in Software Engineering. She leveraged her academic focus on computer networking and security by taking a position at Cisco Systems, where she has worked for over 10 years, and now serves as a team leader and an expert on Cisco’s IOS architecture. Along the way, Angel helped start two philanthropic startups, 7rooz.com and Sarkhat.com. Founded in 2005, 7rooz.com is one of the top Persian events website, which includes a popular Persian calendar service featured as a prominent Facebook app. Sarkhat is a Persian news aggregator, which crawls thousands of websites every day and using machine learning to clusters the news pages into various categories for the benefit of its readers. Angel recently founded DiverseUp, a benefit corporation that serves professional women seeking to expand their careers and achieve a proper work-life balance. Angel is passionate about giving back to the Persian community, and has been active in mentoring and helping immigrants through Pars Equality Center.