Dr. Nour-Omid was the founding Chairman and CEO of StudioXchange, Inc., (acquired by ifilm in 2000) a provider of production site, labor and equipment procurement services for the entertainment industry, until he joined Shelter. Prior to this, he was Executive VP and a Director of Essentus, Inc., a provider of supply chain software for the apparel industry

From March 1991 through 1996, he was the founding CTO and a Director of Scopus Technology, Inc., a provider of front-office applications software. Scopus went public in 1995 and was sold to Siebel Systems, Inc., in 1998. From 1981 to 1990 Dr. Nour-Omid worked at the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory

Dr. Nour-Omid is currently a Director of Integrated Decision Systems, an industry leader in portfolio management solutions, Senior Partner at Kryptic, a leading provider of next generation connectivity solutions for healthcare, and Isensix, a provider of wireless monitoring systems

Dr. Nour-Omid earned a B.S. from the University of London’s Imperial College, and an M.S. in Structural Engineering, M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Computer Simulation from the University of California, Berkeley.