Interview with Zahroof Mohamed  | 1988 ME Batch | CET CXO Connect | Episode 3
Channel: CET Alumni News
Date: 2019-10-18

Zahroof Mohamed is the President of Zahroof Corp. (ZC), a technology development company, and the President and CTO of Zahroof Valves Inc. (ZVI), a Delaware Corporation that develops and markets a unique and groundbreaking compressor valve based on the Modular Reed Valve technology developed by ZC.
ZVI has won several awards including the Sustainability Product of the Year for 2019, Finalist in the Technology Company of the Year Category for 2019 Petroleum Economist Awards, 2016 Edison award winner in the Carbon Reduction category,2015 Finalist in Platt’s Global Energy Awards in the category of “Rising Star - Company”,Pipeline Industry Guild’s 2013 winner of the Land-based Pipeline Technology Award.
Prior to this, Zahroof was Chief Engineer of Samsung Techwin’s Power Systems group, establishing its Center for Excellence, Turbomachinery Design in Houston and overseeing Samsung’s compressor technology in South Korea and the USA. His previous experience includes Principal Engineer at Cameron; Aero-Mechanical Engineer at York International; and various senior Engineering R&D positions in Atlas Copco’s Compressor Technique group, in Voorheesville, NY and Antwerp, Belgium.
Zahroof is a leading technical authority in the field of compressors, high-speed motors, refrigeration, rotordynamics, bearings, seals and valves and has several utility patents and inventions in these areas.
Zahroof received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum; his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station and his Diploma in International Management from the Swedish Institute of Management.
Zahroof lives in Cypress, TX, with his wife, Bindu Nayar. He has two sons, Tariq and Rahul, who are mechanical engineers.
Over the years, Zahroof has been active in various community and professional organizations. He coached youth soccer league for several years, served as Chairman of the STLE (Hudson-Mohawk section) and was an active member of the Vibration Institute, the Texas A&M Turbomachinery consortium and the GMRC.
While at CET, he was the captain of the college soccer team and played on the college cricket, tennis and hockey teams. He was active in the Theatre Workshop, playing a role in the first play, Pygmalion, presented by the club. He represented Kerala state in roller skating. He was the district chairman for Rotaract club and was active in the Youth Hostel and Alliance Fracaise, TVM.