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08-29-2007, 07:27 AM
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Iranian-born immigrant ran a steakhouse before opening women's boutique, Bebe, in San Francisco 1976. Designed clothes for the "stylish but sensual" set. Used massive product placement campaign on late 1990s TV shows like Ally McBeal to penetrate pop culture, build brand. Took public 1998. Today operates 228 stores in North America.
Sales: $510 million. Met wife, Neda, at a Bebe store when she dropped in to make layaway payment on leather jacket; she now serves as vice chairman.
Debuted first runway line at Fashion Week in LA last March.
Manny Mashouf is an Iranian-born American businessman.
He came to the USA in his teens and settled in San Francisco. There, he went to San Francisco State University and graduated with a political science degree in 1966. He is the founder and present chairman of bebe stores. By virtue of the shares he owns, the net worth is 1.5 billion dollars.
He has recently pledged 10 million dollars to his alma mater, San Francisco State.
San Francisco State University has received the largest private individual gift pledge in its history: a $10 million donation from alumnus Manny Mashouf (top box), founder and chairman of bebe stores inc., and his wife Neda, who also is an SF State alum. The gift, announced today by SFSU President Robert A. Corrigan at the University's Commencement ceremony, will go toward a new performing and electronic media arts building for the SFSU College of Creative Arts.
The gift will provide private funding needed for the new building, which is planned to be named in honor of the Mashouf family. The private funding will enable the building project to be included on a future statewide ballot initiative that would, if passed, fund a variety of capital construction projects in public education through California bonds.
" Neda and I are excited to be a part of an innovative University that understands the changing needs of its community and the impact that technology has on every aspect of life such as music, art and business," said Manny Mashouf, who earned a bachelor's degree in political science from SF State in 1966. "The balance of career-focused education and ‘liberal' education is fundamental to SF State.
I strongly believe the cultural fabric of our communities, grounded in technology and education, can be enriched by building new platforms for expression and by stimulating academia with consistent support to our educators and students."
Iranian-born immigrant ran a steakhouse before opening women's boutique, Bebe, in San Francisco 1976. Designed clothes for the "stylish but sensual" set. Used massive product placement campaign on late 1990s TV shows like Ally McBeal to penetrate pop culture, build brand. Took public 1998. Today operates 228 stores in North America.
Sales: $510 million. Met wife, Neda, at a Bebe store when she dropped in to make layaway payment on leather jacket; she now serves as vice chairman.
Debuted first runway line at Fashion Week in LA last March.
Manny Mashouf is an Iranian-born American businessman.
He came to the USA in his teens and settled in San Francisco. There, he went to San Francisco State University and graduated with a political science degree in 1966. He is the founder and present chairman of bebe stores. By virtue of the shares he owns, the net worth is 1.5 billion dollars.
He has recently pledged 10 million dollars to his alma mater, San Francisco State.
San Francisco State University has received the largest private individual gift pledge in its history: a $10 million donation from alumnus Manny Mashouf (top box), founder and chairman of bebe stores inc., and his wife Neda, who also is an SF State alum. The gift, announced today by SFSU President Robert A. Corrigan at the University's Commencement ceremony, will go toward a new performing and electronic media arts building for the SFSU College of Creative Arts.
The gift will provide private funding needed for the new building, which is planned to be named in honor of the Mashouf family. The private funding will enable the building project to be included on a future statewide ballot initiative that would, if passed, fund a variety of capital construction projects in public education through California bonds.
" Neda and I are excited to be a part of an innovative University that understands the changing needs of its community and the impact that technology has on every aspect of life such as music, art and business," said Manny Mashouf, who earned a bachelor's degree in political science from SF State in 1966. "The balance of career-focused education and ‘liberal' education is fundamental to SF State.
I strongly believe the cultural fabric of our communities, grounded in technology and education, can be enriched by building new platforms for expression and by stimulating academia with consistent support to our educators and students."