KHOZAN

Kamran M. Khozan is the majority shareholder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Khozan Holdings Inc., the holding company that oversees the operations of his family's corporate entities and financial interests. He also manages the family's 110-year-old charitable organization, the Mirdamadi Foundation... Mirdamad, whose title became part of the family name of Al Khozan, was born in 1562. He was known as "Mu'allim al Thalith" (Third Teacher) after Aristotle and Al Farabi. He was a close confidant of Shah Abbas and was married to the King's daughter, hence the title, Mirdamad (groom of the King). He was given the title "Sheikh Al Islam" and conducted the coronation of Shah Safi in 1629. He died in Najaf in 1631. His mausoleum has over the years become a shrine, visited by both the Sunni and Shiah sects of the Muslim pilgrims. All his philosophical works, over 60 volumes, are in notoriously cryptic Arabic, following works of Abu Ali Al Housain Ibn Sina (980 - 1037).

Also known as: Khozan Holdings, Khozan Holdings Inc.