Opinion ID: 789756
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Mr. Sabzali's 1995 performance review

Text: 143 Mr. Sabzali, who had arranged the transactions with Galax in 1992 from his Canadian office and who had spoken of Cuban sales during the sales presentation witnessed by Mr. Gentile, was promoted in 1995 to the position of Director of Marketing for the North American operations of The Bro-Tech Corporation, and reassigned as a result from Canada to the Bala Cynwyd office. The basis for the promotion was summed up in a type-written performance review dated May 16, 1995. Critically, the performance review took note of Mr. Sabzali's development of the Caribbean territory to make Purolite the dominant player and his procurement of sales in Mexico as an adjunct to the Caribbean. A. 207 (Gov.Ex. 14). 20 Handwritten at the bottom of the performance review was the notation: New Position, Salary $102,000, Effective 4/1/94. A related memorandum identified Mr. Sabzali's responsibilities in the new position; importantly, however, he was to continue handling the Caribbean areas for North America. Mr. Grossman testified that the handwritten notation at the bottom of the performance review looks like the handwriting of — or the printing of [the Defendant], A. 731 (Grossman, direct), 21 and another former employee, Daniel Opperman, testified that while it was Don Brodie who had hired Mr. Opperman, it was the Defendant who had promoted him.