Mahmoud Khayami

Many years ago,when i was in Iran, I translated an article about Mahmoud khayami to Persian for Iran khodro retired association.Today I have found this article when i was exploring my hard drive.He was an entrepreneur in Iran before Islamic revolution in 1979 and now he is a famous entrepreneur and person in UK and also USA. I really appreciate his character as a manager .I can claim he is the father of Iranian automobile industry,no doubt. Mahmoud Khayami by RUBY SPONSOR:


Mahmoud Khayami, the well-known philanthropist, industrialist, and financier, was born in 1930 in Mashhad where he attended elementary and high school. In 1951 he transferred to Tehran and before long he was involved in the automobile industry. Eleven years later he inaugurated the Iran National company in partnership with his brother, Ahmad Khayami (who later formed a separate company).Iran National was destined to become the largest industrial complex in Iran. One of the leading champions of Iranجs industrialization of the 1960s-70s, he began the production of the popular Peykan cars in 1967, based on cooperation with the Hillman-Hunter company of England which provided the model for it, with 54%of the car manufactured in Iran. By 1979,136,000 cars were being produced annually. He initiated the increasing export of Iranian cars, buses, and Lorries to neighboring countries and Eastern Europe in the 1970s.By 1979 Iran National employed over 20,000 workers in Tehran, Mashhad, Tabriz, and Shiraz.
Khayami also founded the Bank of Iranian Industries, the largest of its kind in Iran, which aimed at bolstering Iranian manufacturing, and of which the shares were held by Iranجs auto industries. He also established a technical school at Iran National for training skilled industrial workers and purchased large tracts of land from the estates of Teymourtash in Khorasan in order to develop an industrial complex there. At the same time, Khayami was involved in assisting cultural and educational endeavors, building a hospital in Mashhad, and securing scholarships for students at the University of Shiraz. In 1979,following the upheavals in Iran, he settled in London, managing the distribution of Mercedes-Benz cars in parts of both England and the United States, as well as continuing his philanthropic activities.
Khayami has been a champion of many cultural causes, and a considerable number of individuals and institutions in need of assistance have benefited from his charitable donations. Many scholars, artists, and people in dire circumstances have been supported by his generosity. Among his recent educational charities is the establishment of seven Mahmoudieh High Schools with all the necessary modern equipment in his hometown of Mashhad. Five more are being built in other cities and he has plans also for a technical college in Mashhad. In 2001 he was unanimously elected Chairman of the Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation that he had been quietly helping for several years. An avid reader and highly informed financier with a marked interest in art and literature, particularly classical Persian poetry and mysticism, Khayamiجs cultural interests coincide with the Encyclopedia جs mission of recording, preserving and disseminating the facts of Iranian history and civilization.
His fine collection of Persian art testifies to his excellent taste and wide knowledge of the field. We are very pleased to have him lead Iranica in 2003.

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please find more information about Mahmoud Khayami at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Khayami
http://www.thekhayamifoundation.org/
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