Khosrow semnani biography

Khosrow B. Semnani is an Iranian-American industrialist, community leader, and philanthropist based in Salt Lake City.

He was born in in Iran, studied English in England in , and traveled to the United States.

He eventually arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, and graduated from Westminster College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Sciences in He received a Master of Engineering Administration degree from the University of Utah in

Semnani began his career working as a research scientist at Kennecott Copper Corporation.

He also worked as a plant engineer for Thatcher Chemical Company, and then as an engineering manager at Sperry Univac (later Unisys).

Using his expertise in physics and industry management, Semnani started Utah’s first hazardous waste disposal facility at Grassy Mountain.

After he sold that facility, he founded Envirocare in Envirocare was the first privately-owned low-level nuclear waste disposal facility in the United States. In , after 16 y