Hadi Partovi

Hadi Partovi is a tech entrepreneur & investor, & CEO of the education nonprofit Code.org. He was born in Tehran, Iran, & after immigrating to the U.S., he spent his summers working as a software engineer to help pay his way through high school & college. Upon graduating from Harvard University, Hadi pursued a career in technology starting at Microsoft where he rose into the executive ranks. In 2013 Hadi & his twin brother Ali launched the education nonprofit Code.org, which Hadi continues to lead full-time as CEO. Code.org has established computer science classes reaching 30% of US students, created the most broadly used curriculum platform for K-12 computer science, & launched the global Hour of Code movement reaching hundreds of millions of students, spanning every country in the world.