BIOGRAPHY

Ali is the owner of Murphy Business of Greater Seattle, a Business Brokerage firm helping clients buy and sell businesses throughout the Greater Seattle area as well as providing business valuations, business owner exit strategies and M&A consulting.

Ali has founded and managed several companies over his career, co-founding his first company in 1988 which specialized in a patented chemical used in the petroleum industry, while he was an undergraduate student at the University of Kentucky. He graduated with BS degree in Chemistry with Minor in Math in 1990. In 1993 Ali returned school to complete his MS degree in Geophysics. 

After completing his MS degree in Geophysics in 1994, Ali was selected as President of Telluric Consulting Services in Dallas, TX and subsequently he founded Phoenix Chemical Corp. based on a chemical product known as PARC400®, which remains widely used in the petroleum industry and is still one of the most cost-effective chemicals for the removal of paraffin and asphaltene deposits in oil wells and other petroleum production operations.

in 1998 Ali joined Smith Barney as a Financial Consultant and Money Manager, subsequently, he owned and operated top-ranking State Farm Insurance agencies in Corpus Christi, Texas and then in Redmond and Bothell, Washington. During his 25-year tenure in the insurance and financial industry, Ali obtained several insurance and securities licenses as well as several professional financial designations including the CFP designation. 

Ali is also a Patent Attorney, licensed to practice before the United State Patent and Trademark Office since 2013 and is licensed to practice law in California since 2019.  Ali is a member of Washington State Patent Lawyers association, National Association of Patent Practitioners, the American Bar Association, and Mensa International.