Roberto Peccei (1942-2020) was former Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California Los Angeles, a position he held from 2000-2010. Dr. Steve has known him since 1997 when they worked together at UCLA.  He is a particle theorist whose principal interests lie in the area of electroweak interactions and in the interface between particle physics and physical cosmology.  The son of Aurelio Peccei, founder of the Club of Rome, Roberto Peccei obtained a B.S. from MIT in 1962, and M.S. from New York University (NYU) in 1964 and a Ph.D. from MIT in 1969. He joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1971, where (with Helen Quinn) he originated Peccei–Quinn theory, still the most famous proposed solution to the strong CP problem, one of the most unsolved problem in Physics.  In 1978, he returned to Europe as a staff member of the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany. He joined the Deutsches Elektron Synchrotron (DESY) Laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, as the Head of the Theoretical Group in 1984. He returned to the United States in 1989, joining the faculty of the Department of Physics at UCLA. Soon thereafter, he became Chair of the Department, a position he held until becoming Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences of the College of Letters and Sciences in November, 1993. Read more

Hassan is the Co-Founder, Chairman and EVP, Business Development of One Llama Labs, Inc., an acoustic Artificial Intelligence platform based on Machine Learning. He previously started and was Chief Executive Officer of UrFilez a digital music company focused on the emerging markets. Miah was previously a Managing Director leading digital media investments at Intel Capital. Miah was the Chief Executive Officer of Xing Technology, the first consumer MP3 recording software company, which he later sold to RealNetworks for $75 million. Dr. Steve met Hassan Miah more then 24 years ago when Miah was the department head of New Media at Hollywood’s largest talent agency, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), where Miah established the CAA/Intel Media Lab. Additionally, Miah was part of the CAA team that created the first large scale investment in TV started by three telecommunication companies.

Prior to CAA, Miah was a Management Consulting Partner at KPMG. While at CAA and KPMG, Miah was intimately involved in developing the business plans of major entertainment companies, music companies, and high profile actors, directors, writers and producers.

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, he is a certified public accountant and received an undergraduate business degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.