# Hash Pakbaz

> Hash Pakbaz is a startup investor at JSR (San Francisco). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [JSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jsr-corp)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/hash-pakbaz/0/99a/781

Hash Pakbaz is a startup investor at JSR in San Francisco. Dr. Hash Pakbaz is an experienced executive with a track record of managing sizeable and rapidly growing product lines as well as launching new technology companies and divisions that achieve multi-million dollar revenue streams. Prior to SBA Materials, as global product management director at Knowles Electronics, Pakbaz was responsible forSilicon MEMS Microphone (SisonicTM) product line P&L addressing consumer (all major smart phone, tablet and laptop manufacturers) and industrial markets. During his tenure at Knowles, Pakbaz oversaw rapid unit shipment growth (3x over 3 years), maintaining dominant market share (over 80%) at all major OEMs. Before joining Knowles, he was vice president of business development at Cambrios Technologies, a venture backed company, where he led the company's launch of ClearOhmTM transparent conductive coatings for touch screen and display applications. Prior to Cambrios, Pakbaz was the vice president of business development at Symmorphix, a venture backed spin out from Applied Materials developing advanced production scale PVD equipment, which was successfully acquired by a private equity group. Pakbaz was also a founding member, and director of product development of the OLED business unit at Osram Opto Semiconductors (a Siemens company) and led the successful launch of world's first polymer based OLED displays for consumer applications.Dr. Pakbaz received his Ph.D. from UC, Santa Barbara in physics under the direction of Prof. A.J. Heeger (winner of Chemistry Nobel Prize, 2000).

## About JSR

VC Fund · Tokyo, Japan

JSR Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in petrochemical products, fine chemicals, and other products businesses primarily in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States, and Belgium. The company operates in three segments: elastomers, plastics, and fine chemicals, and other products. It offers elastomersproducts, such as synthetic rubbers comprising styrene-butadiene rubber, polybutadiene rubber, ethylene propylene rubber, etc.; thermoplastic elastomers and compounded products; and emulsions, including paper coating latex, styrene-butadiene latex, and acrylic emulsions. The company also offers performance chemicals, such as organic/inorganic hybrid coating materials, high-functional dispersants, industrial particles, thermal control materials, binder materials for lithium-ion batteries, etc.; other products comprising butadiene monomers, etc.; and plastics products, including ABS, AES, AS, and ASA resins. In addition, it develops and supplies semiconductor materials, which include lithography materials, such as photoresists and multilayer materials, as well as CMP materials, packaging materials, etc. Further, the company provides display materials for LCD panels, anti-reflective coatings, other functional coating materials, etc.; and optical materials, including heat-resistant transparent resin and films, UV curing optical fiber coating materials, stereo-lithography systems, etc. Additionally, it offers life sciences products, such as in-vitro diagnostics, reagents and bioprocess materials, and medical polymers, as well as lithium-ion capacitors for electricity storage. The company was formerly known as Japan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd. JSR Corporation was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

3 contacts available at JSR.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eric R. Johnson | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-r-johnson-9897 |
| Hash Pakbaz | Chief of Digital Products and Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hash-pakbaz |
| Mitsunobu Koshiba | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mitsunobu-koshiba |

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