Acceleration Technology Partners was founded with a unique vision.
It was our experience that most management consultancies were not providing advisory from academic, evidence based methods or real world learnings. They were providing unproven, off-the shelf solutions to their clients. In contrast, our firm was founded to bring together three pillars vital to successful advisory:
1. Real-world knowledge and best practices from industry leaders whose experiences range from building the fastest-growing line of business at Google to managing culture during a difficult corporate turnaround at Yahoo.
2. Academic, evidence-based methodologies and cutting edge research from faculty of the world's top universities including UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Berkeley Law and The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.
3. Implementable consulting solutions and methodologies based on evidence and expertise, not opinions.
Advisory Board
Hamid Shomali, Advisory Board Member
Dr. Hamid Shomali is a renowned expert in economics and finance. With over 40 years experience in banking, finance, teaching and administration, he specializes in corporate and international finance, strategic planning, and economic analysis.
For over 25 years, Dr. Shomali has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics and the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, Dr. Shomali has served as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University in the Department of International Relations.
Previously, Dr. Shomali served as Dean of the School of Business, Dean of the School of Finance and Economics, and Dean of the Graduate School of International Management for Golden Gate University in San Francisco, CA where he is currently a tenured Professor of Finance and Economics.
Dr. Shomali also previously served as an economist at Bank of America in their Economics and Policy Research Department. Hamid was responsible for analyzing risk ratings for select countries, producing position papers on topics of interest to the bank, and making forecasts of oil and gas prices in certain regions.
Prior to that,Dr. Shomali spent two years as an economist for the central bank of Iran. In this role, Dr. Shomali worked to monitor the oil and gas sector of the economy as well as prepare reports on the state of the economy of Iran. He was also Deputy Managing Director of Bank Farhangian in Iran.
Dr. Shomali’s research has been published in nine journals including the prestigious International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability and Market Technicians Association Journal.
He has had speaking engagements at CISCO Systems, The Center for Management Technology of Malaysia, Morrison Knudson Corporation, UC Berkeley Extension, Raja Garuda Mas Group, Bank of California, World Affairs Council, Western Economic Association, KPMG Conference on Foreign Trade, KPMG Conference on Energy, Chamber of Commerce of Stockton, Aspen Executive Seminar, International Conference on Economic Development, UN Conference on Basic Human Needs, and Aspen-Persepolis Symposium on Iran’s Economic development.
Dr. Shomali holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, a B.S. with joint honors in Mathematics and Economics from Salford University, England, and has been awarded a winner of the Fulbright Scholarship.
