Alston Ghafourifar
Alston Ghafourifar
Alston Ghafourifar is a prominent Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and inventor with a passion for leveraging cutting-edge technology to improve people's lives. With over 20 patents under his belt, Ghafourifar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Entefy Inc, an AI software and automation company that is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the fields of digital communication, security, and multisensory artificial intelligence.
Ghafourifar has already achieved a great deal in his career. He has built a global product team operating in four different time zones, raised millions of dollars in venture funding, and played a key role in the development of strategic IP in areas such as AI, search, security, blockchain, and cyber privacy. He is also the primary inventor of a growing portfolio of pending patents, and has executed several successful strategic partnerships in product and distribution. Along the way, Ghafourifar has given keynote speeches and guest lectures at top universities, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and MIT, on topics such as next-gen technologies, entrepreneurship, the intelligent enterprise, and capital.
Before founding Entefy, Ghafourifar studied Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned a Master of Laws in International Law from the University of London. He also served as the President of Schools for Humanity, a non-profit organization focused on providing education to disadvantaged children in Somalia.