Qasim M. Tarin is the co-founder and chief financial officer of the Afghan Business Network and the president and CEO of Electro Imaging Systems. As an entrepreneur, Qasim has quickly built his own successful organization consulting business and is helping other entrepreneurs develop their businesses worldwide. He is both a business owner and business developer to help rebuild Afghanistan’s economy as well as restore business. As an Afghan American, Qasim Tarin understands the culture along with the desires of the Afghans and can reach out and relate to them. Qasim Tarin attended Habibia High School in Kabul, Afghanistan. He graduated from International Telecommunication University in 1979. Through his education, Qasim was involved in connecting channels of telex and telegraph between Moscow and Kabul. Due to invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet Union, Qasim Tarin left the country to live in the US and start a new life.

He married Salma Tarin, an Afghan American and has three beautiful daughters. He has been trained and has worked with large corporations such as Toshiba America, IBM, Cannon USA, Xerox Corporation, Hewlett Packard, and Ricoh Corporation USA. He was involved in the design of a typewriter to be connected to a PC through Teal Industry. He is a member of the Rotary International and the CEO Alliance Group. He is also part of the advisory group of Business Technology Associations and Xerox Corporation.

Through his training and experience, Qasim Tarin began developing his own business (Electro Imaging Systems, Incorporated) in 1994 in Pleasanton, California. He started his business from zero and built the business into a corporation in Northern California with over thirty employees. With his wife, Salma Tarin, he developed the idea of the Afghan Business Network, Incorporated (now a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization) to give his knowledge and expertise of developing a business to all developing entrepreneurs around the world. In 2012, he became President of Afghan American Chamber of Commerce Northern California Chapter; he is the Chairman of Afghan International Development Corporation (a for profit “C” corporation), and the originator of the Unity and Freedom Movement of Afghanistan – an Afghan International Political Advocacy Group (a U.S. Based 501(c3) tax exempt organization).