Momeni's LinkedIn profile shows he attended UC Berkeley. But a spokesperson said the university has no record of anyone attending or graduating under his name.
Momeni formed a consulting company called Expand IT in April 2010. He had previously worked as a consultant and systems engineer with Marfic and Coast Range Technologies, both based in the Bay Area.
The company offers outsourcing of IT services like cybersecurity and website hosting to a variety of major California industries, according to the profile. Its website boasts that the company builds “secure and reliable technical infrastructure while providing concierge level support that is available 24/7/365.” Its clients include companies that work in health care, law and manufacturing, as well as startups, nonprofits and government clients.
“We take care of the technical heavy lifting, so you can focus on growing your enterprise.”
A phone call to the company went unanswered Thursday morning, and hours later, the company’s website was no longer working.
The company was apparently based in the Bay Area with offices in San Mateo and Emeryville. Momeni lived in Emeryville, where police swarmed his home early Thursday.
Momeni’s Facebook page was mostly barren, containing little else than a few photographs he apparently posted.
A screen capture of Nima Momeni’s LinkedIn page. Nima Momeni, the Emeryville resident arrested in connection with the Bob Lee killing, is a tech entrepreneur and owner of the San Francisco-based Expand IT Inc., according to his LinkedIn profile.
Screen capture from LinkedInMomeni occupied a loft inside the Besler Building, a swanky converted industrial condominium complex that catered to workers in the East Bay city’s burgeoning tech sector. The building, where condos routinely sell for more than $800,000, has housed architects, lawyers, artists, techies and the occasional politician.
Public affairs consultant Sam Singer said he recently opened an office next door to Momeni’s loft.
Singer found Momeni “warm and welcoming” during a tour of the tech exec’s spacious unit, which he recalled was decked out with a pool table and technology equipment. Following the tour, Momeni left Singer a stack of business cards, offering information technology services.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Momeni is bilingual in Farsi. The IT consultant had racked up dozens of endorsements from those he’d worked with, including Akash Sawhney, who said in an interview he met Momeni in 2015, while working for a startup called “Outward.”
Sawhney was helping the company founders set up a new IT network. They’d hired Momeni to help them set it up, he recalled.
At the time, Momeni was “super helpful,” Sawhney said.
“I didn’t see any signs of anger, any red flags — at that point,” he said. Sawhney also recalled a common connection with Momeni when he learned Momeni was Zoroastrian — a member of the ancient monotheistic religion that originated in Iran.
Because of persecution, many Zoroastrians fled Persia, ending in India, where Sawhney grew up.
Momeni had appreciated talking to someone who knew about his faith, Sawhney said.
Then, this morning, he read the news.
“I was completely taken aback,” Sawhney said. “It didn’t seem in character with what he’s accused of doing — at least in my interactions with him.”
It was unclear how Lee and Momeni met, and San Francisco Police Chief William Scott declined to characterize their relationship.
Chronicle staff writer Nanette Asimov contributed to this report.
Reach Nora Mishanec: nora.mishanec@sfchronicle.com
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