Ali Nejad

Oliver "Ali" Nejad (born 25 February 1978) is an Iranian-American television personality, who has hosted several shows including Road Trip on ESPNU, and has been a fill-in host for UNite, also on ESPNU.

[1] In May 2014, Nejad began working at HLN and hosted the network's program The Daily Share.

[7] Nejad has made three appearances as a player on commentators' week on Poker After Dark.

From high school in Albany, California, through to college at UC Berkeley, Nejad hosted and reported for First Cut, a local NBC affiliate show in the San Francisco Bay area, where he began his television career.

[7] His tenure began on 26 February 2008 at the WPT Commerce event and ended right before the start of the 2009 WSOP.