Behruz Nassre-Esfahani FRPSL
Behruz Nassre-Esfahani is a long-time collector and exhibitor of Pre-1925 Persian Philately. He has been collecting for more than 40 years as well as researching and exhibiting for the past 20 years. His areas of interests include:
Postal Stationery
Postal History
Provisional Issues of Qajar Dynasty
Charity Issues
Airmail
As a Ruby award member of AAPE, Behruz aims to put gold medal exhibits together in every exhibit category (only thematic/topical is missing, but also in the works). Behruz is a member of APEX and specializes in expertizing Persian Philatelic material. Over the last five years, he has helped reestablish the Iran Philatelic Study Circle’s (IPSC) expert committee to provide a low-cost service to collectors worldwide, emphasizing assisting collectors in Iran.
As a Bay Area high-tech executive, he has worked to increase the online presence of philately to bring the worldwide community closer. He established an IPSC online discussion group almost 25 years ago and is currently managing IPSC’s website, Facebook page, and Telegram channel.
He is a member of the following societies:
WESTPEX (Chairman)
The Royal Philatelic Society London (FRPSL, Representative to the Western United States)
Collectors Club, New York (Member of the board of governors)
Iran Philatelic Study Circle (Head of the expert committee)
American Philatelic Society (Member of APS expert committee)
United Postal Stationery Society (Board member as well as multi-frame and single-frame Champion of Champion winner)
American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors (Ruby Award, as well as team competition winner)
Collectors Club of San Francisco (past president)
Behruz received his bachelor’s and master’s in electrical engineering from Cornell University. Over the last 40 years, he has been working in various semiconductor and Internet companies in the Bay Area, including running technical operations at eBay. He is currently the Vice President of Operations and Security at BlueJeans by Verizon.