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Anousheh Ansari

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Anousheh Ansari is co-founder and CEO of Telecom Technologies, Inc. (TTI). Along with her brother-in-law Amir Ansari, she made a multi-million contribution to the X-Prize foundation on May 5, 2004, the 43rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's sub-orbital spaceflight. The X-Prize was officially renamed the Ansari X Prize in honor of their donation.

Born in 1967 in Tehran, Iran, the Ansaris founded TTI in 1993. The company was acquired by Sonus Networks in 2000. Ansari was listed in Fortune magazine's "40 under 40" list in 2001 and honored by Working Woman magazine as the winner of the 2000 National Entrepreneurial Excellence award.

He is said to be interested in taking a tourist flight on SpaceShipOne, the likely winner of the X Prize, as he wants to experience spaceflight as soon as possible without waiting for orbital flight to develop or for prices to drop with the development of routine tourist flights.

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