Nader Nejad

Biography

Nader Naeini Nejad is a graduate of San Diego State University (class of 1982) with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He worked on avionics and electronics projects in the defense industry. He had the honor of being directly involved in design, development, and/or maintenance of F14, Harpoon Missile, B1 bomber, and F-22 fighter. He left this field of engineering in 1997 to follow his long-term goal of making a positive impact on our environment. He started his own company MOLAM International, where he and his team of young talented engineers and technicians developed the first semi-automatic electronics recycling technologies which tackled the, then, new environmental problem of dealing with electronics waste. Those technologies lead to future fully automated recycling lines and his company received the first national e-waste recycling contract from the U.S. EPA in 2004. He later improved these technologies and used them in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, China, and Hong Kong. In 2016, he retired due to a life changing auto accident. He has been directly responsible for recycling 600,000,000 pounds of e-waste and converting it to reusable raw materials such as plastics, copper, steel, aluminum, gold, silver. He now is a philanthropist and on Advisory Board of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at SDSU.