Leadership Team

Jinous Samii-Saremi, PhD, CCM

Vice President and Southern California Area Manager

Jinous Samii-Saremi serves as Vanir’s Vice President and Southern California Area Manager. In this role, she leads all aspects of business operations for Vanir’s Southern California offices, including business development, client relations and the day-to-day execution of business contracts.

A long-term member of the Vanir team, Jinous has more than 35 years of program, project and construction management experience, having worked on a wide array of commercial, institutional, educational, law enforcement, residential and hospitality facilities. She is skilled in program and design management, grant administration, team building, contract management, quality control, plan check, bid analysis and project closeout. Jinous prides herself on creating safe, collaborative and innovative job sites that result in quality projects that are completed on time and within budget.

Jinous holds a Doctoral Degree in Architecture from the University of Rome (Sapienza Università di Roma) and is a Certified Construction Manager (CCM). She has also served as the CCM Committee Chair on the Construction Management Association of America Southern California Chapter Board since 2019.