Payam Zamani

Who is Payam Zamani?

Payam Zamani is the Chairman and CEO of Reply!, Inc., which operates an online marketplace for the acquisition of locally targeted consumers traffic. Zamani is a member of the Bahá'í Faith and was forced to escape religious persecutions in Iran. He came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1988 at the age of 16.

Zamani’s serial entrepreneurship began in 1994 when he co-founded Autoweb.com, the first online car buying service. In 1999 he helped to take the company public. The company’s market cap ultimately reached $1.2 billion.

Zamani later founded PurpleTie, before starting Reply! in 2001. In May 2011, Reply! acquired MerchantCircle, an online network of business owners, for $60 million in cash and stock.