In the field of community college education, Sam Agdasi has established a career marked by leadership, service, and a consistent focus on student advancement. He brings over 25 years of experience in higher education, including more than 15 years in community colleges, where he has served as a faculty member, program chair, dean, and senior academic administrator, including service at the vice president level. Sam Agdasi has concentrated on advancing student success, strengthening transfer pathways, supporting STEM fields, expanding career technical education (CTE), and guiding applied disciplines. His work has emphasized aligning academic programs with transfer requirements and workforce needs while maintaining a strong commitment to institutional effectiveness and long-term student outcomes.

Sam currently serves as the Dean of Student Learning for the Business & Industrial Studies and Social Sciences Divisions at Compton College in Compton, California. In this position, he provides leadership for a broad set of academic and workforce programs, including business, industrial trades, and social sciences. His leadership emphasizes program quality, academic innovation, and student outcomes. He works closely with faculty and staff to strengthen instructional delivery and promote continuous improvement across programs, ensuring they remain responsive to student needs and regional labor market demands.

His current role includes oversight of many operational and strategic functions. These include budget planning, curriculum development, program review, and faculty support. He also leads dual enrollment initiatives and develops partnerships with K–12 districts, four-year institutions, and industry partners. These efforts help expand access and reinforce both transfer and workforce pathways. Through collaborative leadership and data-informed decision-making, he has contributed to program sustainability, enrollment stability, and student success across a range of disciplines.

Before joining Compton College, Former Vice President Sam Agdasi held leadership positions at large community colleges in California and in the Midwest, including within a multi-campus system. In those roles, he managed multi-million-dollar budgets, supported institutional and programmatic accreditations, and expanded instructional delivery through both traditional and online modalities. His experience includes leading complex academic divisions and aligning educational offerings with transfer requirements and workforce priorities. He has also contributed to strategic planning efforts that connect academic programs with regional economic development goals.

Earlier in his career, Sam served as a faculty member and program chair, helping develop new curricula and establish academic programs. One notable achievement was leading the development of a nanotechnology program supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) funding. This effort integrated concepts across science, engineering, health-related fields, and applied technologies. He has also contributed to grant-funded initiatives, including projects supported by the National Science Foundation and workforce development programs such as Strong Workforce and Perkins, helping expand opportunities through internships, industry partnerships, and career pathways.

Former Vice President Sam Agdasi holds a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. After graduate studies, he worked as a Research Specialist in the Chemistry Department at Purdue University. As an immigrant and first-generation college graduate, he brings a personal understanding of the value of educational access. His ongoing work continues to reflect a practical commitment to stronger programs, broader opportunity, and meaningful outcomes for students pursuing academic and professional progress.

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Certified AI practitioner, Mindvalley 1st Prize, Best AI App Builder. Certified Claude Code practitioner and more.

AI is forcing you to clarify your intentions. AI is rendering and augmenting the quality of what you put in. I connect what others see as separate: AI, business processes and strategy, and the human side of transformation. After 33 years building... Show more

Jeremy has 30+ in systems design, red teaming, and blue teaming, and has led over 800 security audits across government and commercial environments. His background includes developing secure solutions, delivering cybersecurity services, teaching and mentoring future practitioners, and leading R&D initiatives. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida for more than two decades and founded the USF Whitehatters Computer Security Club. Jeremy is an expert witness, patent developer, frequent conference speaker, and has been recognized as Tampa Bay Technology Leader of the Year (2017) and CyberX Cybersecurity Leader of the Year (2023). He holds BS and MS degrees from USF, is a CISSP and CEH, and serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Computing.

Jeremy has 30+ in systems design, red teaming, and blue teaming, and has led over 800 security audits across government and commercial environments. His background includes developing secure solutions, delivering cybersecurity services, teaching and ... Show more

Collette combines 25 years in digital marketing space, 15 in leadership including an CEO role. She's enjoyed 3 exits, a late ADHD diagnosis which changed her career direction. Today a qualified Executive Coach (AfC) + a qualified Neuroscience for Change Practitioner (APMG); she is uniquely qualified to help develop high-performance, happier teams where individuals and your businesses thrive.

Employee engagement is at a crisis low and silently killing businesses. Most businesses treat this as a people problem. It's actually a systems problem. When you design for how brains actually work your 'talented but difficult' people become your most valuable assets, and entire teams perform better.

Better systems. Better culture. Better retention.

Collette combines 25 years in digital marketing space, 15 in leadership including an CEO role. She's enjoyed 3 exits, a late ADHD diagnosis which changed her career direction. Today a qualified Executive Coach (AfC) + a qualified Neuroscience for Cha... Show more

Teddy Teece is the Managing Partner of KEA Capital Partners, an investment firm that links international capital with New Zealand’s light industrial sector. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist whose work spans finance, technology, executive coaching, and real estate. Across these fields, he has focused on connecting purpose, profit, and planet while addressing overlooked market inefficiencies and practical business challenges.

Teddy's relationship with New Zealand comes through five generations of family ties, and his dual-hemisphere, bi-coastal early life helped shape his global outlook. This background informs his current work with long-term and lifestyle-oriented investors who seek financial returns while building deeper connections to New Zealand and contributing to its economy, environment, and infrastructure.

As Founder and Managing Partner of KEA Capital Partners, Teddy leads acquisition strategies across New Zealand’s “golden triangle,” with attention on light industrial sectors. The firm focuses on acquiring, growing, and consolidating established businesses that support the country’s infrastructure. Through KEA Capital Partners, he is raising funds from investors seeking residency in New Zealand while making a meaningful contribution to its economy.

Teddy developed KEA Capital Partners’s business plan and thesis during his first year in Wharton’s Executive MBA program. This involved building advisory relationships, stress-testing the plan, and shaping a timely opportunity. KEA Capital Partners now offers a geopolitical insurance product for investors concerned about macroeconomic uncertainty and interested in New Zealand as a safe and stable place to live and invest. His model combines private equity, search fund methods, local partnerships, community events, and philanthropic opportunities.

Before founding KEA Capital Partners, Teddy served as Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of an investment bank that processed eight and nine-figure transactions. He also co-founded a marketplace for unique experiences through an incubator and created partnerships with major providers. In consulting, he co-founded a leadership and family business advisory service that supports business families, executives, and next-generation leaders across the United States, the Middle East, and New Zealand.

Teddy has also developed a nonprofit and executive retreat destination near Boulder, Colorado, improving a forty-acre property for connection, reflection, wellness, and community. Since 2017, he has supported Navy SEAL families through a foundation and helped raise six- and seven-figure sums for charities.

Teddy graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies, earned recognition for the university’s best senior essay, competed as an NCAA Division I lightweight rower, and played rugby.

Today, Teddy Teece works with a New Zealand-based team, supports charitable organizations, writes, drums, works the land, and seeks adventure. He remains focused on service, stewardship, and partnerships that support lasting organizations and communities.

Teddy Teece is the Managing Partner of KEA Capital Partners, an investment firm that links international capital with New Zealand’s light industrial sector. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist whose work spans finance, technology, exe... Show more

Nicolás Contreras is the AI Director of PappCorn, a Colombian startup studio that builds ventures from the inside, alongside their founders. He leads the studio's AI-native practice, where every partner's repo gets an agent squad on day one — an orchestrator, a typed fleet of specialists, and a skills library, versioned inside the partner's own codebase — so the first thing a startup buys is the factory, not the feature. He productized the pre-code stage the same way: a discovery-to-unit-economics pipeline that runs as chained slash commands and has the authority to STOP a bad idea before anyone writes code. Delivery runs as an agent product team that hands feasibility to the machines and keeps value and viability with the humans. He is also CTO of Vaki, Colombia's largest crowdfunding platform, where he built vAIkilorians: ten production AI agents that let four people — one of them an engineer — run support, code, data and operations across three countries from a single Mac Studio. Electronic and industrial engineer from Universidad de los Andes. Builds from Bogotá, and builds robots with his kids on weekends.

Nicolás Contreras is the AI Director of PappCorn, a Colombian startup studio that builds ventures from the inside, alongside their founders. He leads the studio's AI-native practice, where every partner's repo gets an agent squad on day one — an orch... Show more