Father on Mark's Blog https://mark.lavi.us/tags/father/ Recent content in Father on Mark's Blog Hugo en-us This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:54:43 -0500 My Father: Mansour Lavi Obituary https://mark.lavi.us/personal/mansour_lavi_obituary/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 07:16:58 -0600 https://mark.lavi.us/personal/mansour_lavi_obituary/ <p>Mansour Lavi (born 1939 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamadan">Hamadan, Iran</a>, died 2025 in New York City, USA) was an engineer and entrepreneur who powered a family business that provided after market turbine parts and repair to the aviation and power industry. The family manufacturing business was based in New York and peaked around 50 employees, serving domestic and international customers in the military, government, and private markets. It competed with global industrial Original Equipment Manufacturing giants: Westinghouse, General Electric, Mitsubishi, Rolls Royce, and more.</p>