The photograph on the wall Navabi is looking at in Gouldsberry's apartment is of Nikola Tesla. Like Gouldsberry he was tall and very thin, and had some interesting views on inventing and inventions.
The actor playing Red's (James Spader) chief of security Baz, Baz, also happens to be a former CIA officer and veteran US Marine who founded an NGO which rescues kidnapped children in the sex slave trade.