Leadership team
Arkran is led by senior engineers and project professionals with careers built on large, complex capital projects across mining, petrochemicals, energy and critical minerals.

Alireza Kamran
B.Sc., PMP
Principal · Project Controls Manager · 20+ years
EPCM project controls manager with more than twenty years of experience leading large-scale projects in the petrochemical, refining, battery materials and mining sectors. Expert in planning, scheduling, cost control and progress tracking, with a proven record of managing cross-functional teams and implementing project controls systems on multi-billion-dollar EPCM projects. Focused on stakeholder coordination, earned value management and cost forecasting, and on delivering on time and on budget.

Mehrdad Hamidi
B.Sc., P.Eng.
Technical Advisor · Principal Process Engineer · 30+ years
Principal process engineer with more than thirty years of experience delivering complex industrial projects across the mining, minerals, petrochemical, chemical, energy and nuclear sectors. Extensive expertise in process engineering from FEED through detailed design, construction support and commissioning. Has led the process design of major facilities including cathode active material production plants, biodiesel and medical-grade ethanol plants, refinery process units, sulphuric acid plants, natural gas compression systems, wastewater treatment facilities and nuclear waste treatment systems. Recognized for practical, technically robust solutions on large multidisciplinary EPCM projects.

Mahdi Jazayeri
Ph.D., P.Eng.
Technical Advisor · Principal Process Engineer · 15+ years
Engineering leader with more than fifteen years of experience in industrial process engineering, technology commercialization and capital project support across energy, chemicals and separation technologies. Proven capability in translating research concepts into engineered, deployable solutions through feasibility studies, process design, equipment specification and vendor coordination.

Reza Ghanaatpisheh
B.Sc., P.Eng.
Technical Advisor · Principal Mechanical Engineer · 26+ years
Principal mechanical engineer with more than twenty-six years of experience delivering engineering solutions for complex industrial facilities across the oil and gas, petrochemical, power, pipeline and manufacturing sectors. Extensive expertise in EPCM project execution, equipment design, plant reliability and mechanical integrity, spanning FEED, detailed engineering, construction support, commissioning and operations. Has led multidisciplinary engineering teams and provided technical leadership on critical rotating and static equipment.


