Dr. Haleh Emrani is the Founder and CEO of SageDom, a community-building software engine provider focused on facilitating group collaboration and communications. Trained as an Electrical Engineer, she has worked in the technical field since 1991. She leads and empowers multidisciplinary teams to perform optimally in achieving client and organizational business objectives.

In addition to her professional activities, Dr. Emrani pursued a degree in the history of pre-Islamic Iran and obtained a Ph.D. in Sasanian Social History from UCLA. Her research focuses on the position of women across the many religious groups of Late Sasanian and Early-Islamic Iran, with emphasis on the legal regulations governing marriage, divorce, guardianship of women and their children, and inheritance. Passionate about academic and philanthropic initiatives, Dr. Emrani also chairs the Iranian Studies Council at the Farhang Foundation, working with a team of dedicated individuals passionate about supporting establishing the Iranian Studies degree program at USC.

Dr. Emrani has several publications on the position of women and marriage laws in the different communities of pre-Islamic Iran in various Iranian Studies journals. She was the director of Sasanika, a portal dedicated to the study of Late Antique Iran from its inception in 2003 to 2019.