Yashar Shahabi

Managing Partner @ Emaz Electronics

About

I am an electronic components, semiconductor, electrical parts and MRO supply chain, sales & technology leader with a career spanning across 3 different continents. I have worked at startups and large enterprise companies during my almost 3 decades tenure. I have been managing and working with globally-distributed sales teams, technology and product management teams & embraced remote work my entire career. At my current role I am working with a multiple different sales and trading team as well as cross-functional product management teams across the globe, serving customers at multiple different verticals such as AI-Infrastructure build ups, Mil-Aerospace, Defense, Renewables and MRO. I am Passionate about AI & digital transformation, building & nurturing highly effective sales teams and scaling businesses.

Country

United States

City

Irvine

Industry

Semiconductors

Skill

Digital Business Card, Operational Execution, Operations Administration, Revenue Management, Business-to-Business (B2B), CRO Management, Revenue Generation, Software as a Service (SaaS), International Sales, Supply Chain Management, Semiconductors, Electronics, Manufacturing, Sales, Supply Chain, Product Management, Semiconductor Industry, Product Development, Purchasing, Product Marketing

Experience

Managing Partner

Emaz Electronics

2023-1 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Irvine, CA

Emaz Electronics is a boutique consulting firm focused at providing solutions to electronics manufacturing supply chain industries.

Chief Revenue Officer

IBS Electronics Group

2024-6 - 2025-7 · 1 yr 2 mos

Santa Ana, California, United States

Responsible For Global Sales & Purchasing. Doubled our Target Revenue & Profit and Met all by Q3. Introduced New Customer Segments & Opened New Revenue/Profit Opportunities with Entirely New Product Categories. Oversaw Introduction of Sales & Purchasing AI Tools for all Trading Staff. This Visibly Increased Productivity Across the Board. Oversaw all Key Customer & Supplier Relationships.

Official Member

Forbes Technology Council

2021-7 - 2024-6 · 3 yrs

Senior Vice President; Technology, e-commerce/Digital Sales & Strategic Partnerships

Sourceability

2017-11 - 2024-5 · 6 yrs 7 mos

Irvine, California

- Started & leading Sourceability's digital transformation through creation of Sourcengine e-commerce marketplace from concept to actual delivery of the MVP and beyond. - Building & hiring the e-commerce marketplace team members from scratch: Technology Team (developers, architects, devops/Infrastructure/SRE), Design/Creativity team, Product Management/owner team, Project Management team (Scrum Masters), Digital Marketing team (SEO, SEM, Content creation & Campaigns), Business Intelligence & Analytics Team, Sales and Business Development team (globally) - Fully responsible for all global Sales (Revenue & Profit) KPIs through our marketplace e-commerce platform (Sourcengine) & all sales generated through Sourcengine's SaaS Tools (BOM & Quote Management)

Corporate Vice President

Sourceability

2016-4 - 2017-10 · 1 yr 7 mos

Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

- In charge of exploring Digital transformation opportunities for a global component (semiconductor) distributor like Sourceability - Coordinated the efforts of requirement gathering for company's digital transformation by conducting & leading regular digital transformation workshops with internal and external partners - Selected Technology frameworks to begin the company's digital transformation efforts