Sepehr Irandoost is a New York–based, Australian-Iranian Renaissance human whose résumé reads like five lifetimes distilled into one. He is an author, patented inventor, Business leader, tech executive and a professional opera singer, who has already helped build a billion-dollar fintech unicorn, performed on the largest stages in the world, and now channels that same cross-disciplinary fire into health-tech, robotics, and human potential.

Born in Tehran, Sepehr grew up straddling two cultural imperatives: the Persian tradition of art, poetry, and music, and a family ethos that prized scientific rigor. He first formalized his analytical side with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering in Iran, then moved to Sydney, earning dual master’s degrees in Information Technology and IT Management from the University of Sydney. By day he was immersed in algorithms and process design; by night he was training his dramatic Bass-Baritone, eventually debuting on stages from Sydney Opera House to New York’s Carnegie hall.

Sepehr’s early tech career revolved around natural-language processing: building multilingual speech-recognition datasets that would lay groundwork for voice assistants like Siri. But the 2008 financial crisis jolted him into a new purpose: safeguarding ordinary investors from the market abuses that devastate real lives. Joining a fledgling trade-surveillance startup, he spent the next 15 years architecting machine-learning systems that flag insider trading, spoofing, and other forms of market manipulation in nanoseconds.

Regulators loved it; Wall Street feared it; and eventually Nasdaq acquired the firm, retaining both the platform and its driving force—Sepehr. Rising to Head of Risk & Surveillance-CS at Nasdaq, he partnered with exchanges and watchdogs on six continents, overseeing technology that now monitors trillions of dollars in daily volume. By his departure, the platform’s valuation had soared past US $2 billion. Along the way he authored multiple patents in anomaly detection and became an in-demand speaker on market integrity.

Yet Sepehr never treated corporate success as the summit. He published “How to Be a Flea on the Back of a Dragon,” a plain-spoken investing guide that demystifies wealth-building for everyday people. He earned a Six Sigma Belt, codifying his belief that excellence is a repeatable process. He is now naming this the “Renaissance Human” method.

Today Sepehr leads strategy for emerging-tech initiatives in healthcare AI, robotics, and longevity, all while launching his signature movement, “Renaissance Human.” The premise is urgent and simple: in an AI-accelerated world, the winners will be those who cultivate multiple domains—technical, creative, emotional, and spiritual—and weave them into a life of service. His mission is to give anyone, from coders to creatives, the frameworks to acquire new skills, master their inner world, and thrive in the coming era of exponential change.

When he isn’t advising startups or rehearsing Puccini, Sepehr mentors first-generation immigrants, believing that “talent is universal, but opportunity must be built.” He lives in Manhattan with a stack of lab notebooks, a grand piano and an ever-growing library of score sheets and philosophy texts—proof that in the modern age, you really can be everything you are.