Date & Time: October 23 10:50am – 12:05pm
Location: Ruth S. Harley University Center, Room UC 113, 114, and 115;

Adelphi University is honored to welcome back distinguished alumnus Paul Akian ’64 for a special lecture event focused on careers, integrity, and leadership in business and technology.

This unique session will give students the opportunity to hear firsthand from a visionary entrepreneur and philanthropist whose career spans decades of innovation, impact, and service.

About the Speaker

Paul-Akian

Paul Akian

Paul Akian is Chairman of the Board and principal founding investor in Integra Technologies. Mr. Akian is an industrialist of technology companies and an active philanthropist. He has founded and acquired several notable engineering companies including Western Filter, Integra Technologies, Puroflow and FluiDyne. Mr. Akian has a multi-decade history of supplying critical products to mission platforms including early warning radars and air traffic control systems all around the world, U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, Nimitz and Trident submarines, U.S. Army’s M1 Tanks, U.S. Air Force F-15, F-16 and F-18s, the Discovery Space Shuttle, and Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner as well as other commercial aircrafts.

Mr. Akian studied Mathematics and Physics at Adelphi University, and earned his MS in Applied Mathematics and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the American University of Armenia (AUA), the Golden State Bank and many other philanthropic organizations.

For more information, please contact Nicole Henderson at nhenderson@adelphi.edu.

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