Homa Taraji

Ms. Homa Taraji is president of Paradi Corporation, a fine arts company based in Los Angeles with focus on contemporary Iranian art. Since 2002, Paradi has organized successful exhibitions of contemporary Iranian paintings in Los Angeles, New York, Houston and Boston. Ms. Taraji has established working relationship with art galleries in Tehran and a broad base of artists whose work she represents in the U.S.

Ms. Taraji is co-founder of the American Foundation for Contemporary Iranian Art (AFCIA, February 2004), a non-profit organization for promotion of contemporary Iranian art in the U.S. In parallel with art, Ms, Taraji has been providing consulting in Aerospace and Information Technology.

Prior to founding Paradi, Ms. Taraji was the Manager of Information Systems at the Getty Museum. Before that, she held the position of IT Senior Manager at Ernst & Young Management Consulting.

Ms. Taraji has had an extended career in the aerospace industry. She has held senior positions at The Aerospace Corporation working on satellite communication systems. Prior to Aerospace, Ms. Taraji was with General Electric Information Services as a project manager developing financial applications and databases in New York and Los Angeles.

Ms. Taraji started her career as a software engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena working on Viking and Voyager missions to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Ms. Taraji holds a B.S. degree in Physics and an M.S. in Electronics from Tehran University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. She has been the recipient of NASA Group Achievement Award for Voyager, Goddard Trophy, Milstar Recognition Award and several GE technical awards.