CEO – Professor – Inventor of Pepper Spray
Expert in Enlightened Warriors Philosophy & Discipline
Kamran Loghman (pronounced Cameron Logman) is the founder of Rise of Giants. He is an accomplished CEO, with significant leadership experience. MBA Professor of Business, and the inventor of pepper spray. In his professional capacity, Professor Loghman has been an advisor to some of the most recognized global brands and for more than a decade he worked closely with Apple® executives on various global projects.
Kamran is an expert in enlightened warrior traditions and for the past 50 years, he has been a practitioner of Japanese and India’s classical warrior disciplines. As an acknowledged expert and martial arts historian, Kamran has extensively researched the origins of warrior arts. During his research that has spanned over four decades, Kamran worked closely with the late Dr. Gayatri Nath Pant, curator of National Museum of India, recognized as the world’s foremost expert on Asian arms and armor.
Additionally, since an early age, Kamran has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation directly under the tutelage of the world-renowned meditation masters, the late Muktananda Paramahansa, and later under Swami Chidvilasananda. To further deepen his knowledge, Kamran studied directly with Lakshman Joo, a scholar and mystic of Kashmir Shaivism philosophy, with an uninterrupted lineage dating back to 850 CE.
Notably, Kamran is the inventor of pepper spray technology for law enforcement applications and holds multiple patents in chemistry and fluid dynamics. He is the leading expert in federal court proceedings regarding pepper spray and has appeared in numerous courts of law as an expert on cases with high media exposure. Kamran is the founder and CEO of Zarc International, Inc. of Maryland (1988 to 2005), a manufacturer of law enforcement devices with global distribution and a client list comprised of elite agencies including the US Air Force, Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Secret Service, US Marshals Service, and US Drug Enforcement Administration. Kamran developed the training guidelines and standards for law enforcement application and trained and certified more than 4000 law enforcement officers in defensive tactics and the proper use of chemical agents.
In his academic pursuit, Kamran has been the MBA Professor of leadership, strategy, and innovation at the American University Kogod School of Business in Washington D.C., where he oversaw Executive Education. He also lectures on warrior traditions at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis and taught Indian philosophy at The Catholic University of America.
Kamran moved to Switzerland at an early age and later migrated to the USA, in the early seventies. His paternal side were medical doctors who studied in Paris France for four generations. They closely collaborated with notable physicians such as Professor Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot, the grandson of Louis Pasteur. Going even farther back, his ancestors were keepers of the old books dating back a thousand years, many of which are in various museums. Kamran is the direct descendant of Ibrahim Adham (c. 718), one of the most prominent of the early Sufi saints. Rumi, the famed poet, has extensively described the story of Ibrahim in his book, the Masnavi. Kamran’s maternal side were nobilities from Tbilisi Georgia dating back to year 1200 and a close relative of Joseph Jandieri, the mystic wonderworker who has been canonized as a saint by the Georgian Orthodox Church.
