Vice President, Divison of Digital and Informational Technologies 

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Senior Fellow, Family Caregiver Research Institute

Saeid Vafaeisefat, PhD serves as Vice President of the Caregiver Coalition Fund of America’s Digital and Informational technologies Division as well as a Senior Fellow of the Family Caregiver Research Institute.

Saeid has a BS in Physics from the University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne, Newcastle, UK, an MS and PhD in Theoretical High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, and did his post-doctoral fellowship at the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY.  Subsequently, he served as Lecturer and Assistant Research Professor of Physics at SUNY at Buffalo. Following his Assistant Professorship, Dr. Vafaeisefat, work for Xerox Corporation, Rochester, CA as the Technical Program Manager/SW Development Manager and attended an accelerated program in Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.   Following his position at MIT, Saeid worked for Earthlink, Pasadena, CA as the Enterprise Director & Architect where he directed the integration of multiple acquisitions, drove value-added strategy with improvements in service, security and time-to-market through virtualization and cloud migrations.  As a result of these achievements, he saved Earthlink millions of dollars per year in the enhanced integration of billing and authentication systems.  Further he enhanced new product/service delivery processes to allow for a more rapid implementation and reduced time to market by 25%.

Following Saeid’s tenure at Earthlink, he worked for Boingo Wireless, Los Angeles, CA as the Director of Infrastructure and Network. In this position. Dr. Vafaeisefat led a major hardware upgrade for date company’s data center to eliminate growing service interruptions, directed real-time migration to new storage and network platforms, and significantly reduced the footprint of the data center.  In addition, he transformed their cybersecurity system to meet PCI/SOX compliance standards to support secure credit card transactions with thorough documentation for complete audit readiness.  In 2018, Saeid became the Vice President of Information Technology at FanDuel where he led technology operations in the U.S. and in Europe.  In this position he partnered with national data centers and managed service providers to create a new delivery/support model for Sportbook product areas that streamlined regulatory compliance/security and beat competition to the market and supported significant year-over-year revenue growth with exceptional level of customer satisfaction.  Further, he streamlined the company’s audit process and reduced audit timelines by 35%. 

Follow his employment at FanDuel, Saeid was employed by Internet Brands and LIQUIDSports at the Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer, respectively.   At LiquidSports he lead the technology, security and architecture effort for initial product launch; including product roadmap land strategy. 

Throughout his career, Saeid as a Technology and Business Strategy Advisor has provided essential pre-funding advice to several startups also advised local businesses and national corporations across multiple industries in business/technology alignment, product strategy, outsourcing, systems architecture, and integration strategies. Special focus on infrastructure, social media, and mobile platforms.

Saeid is currently at Seek Business Capital as Partner & Vice President of Technology. He is also helping small and medium businesses in the areas of cybersecurity and technology. Saeid is author of several scientific papers in theoretical high energy physics.