Amir Ansari (Persian: امیر انصاری) is an American chief technology officer and co-founder of Prodea Systems.
Along with his sister-in-law Anousheh Ansari, he made a multimillion-dollar contribution to the Ansari X Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight.
Ansari was born in 1970 in Tehran, Iran, and immigrated to the United States before the Iranian Revolution.
Along with his brothers Hamid and Anousheh, he founded Telecom Technologies, Inc. in 1993 and served as the company's chief technical officer.
the formation of a partnership with Space Adventures, Ltd. and the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation to create a fleet of suborbital spaceflight vehicles for global commercial use.