Submitted by: Lainey Morrow, bmorrow@uca.edu on 02/10/2026
The UCA College of Business will host Amir Deylami, chief operating officer (COO) of NASA’s Ames Research Center, Tuesday, Feb. 17, for the first of three Executive in Residence Leadership Series presentations. The UCA campus is invited to attend, and the events are free and open to the public.
Deylami is the COO of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, where he oversees $8B in assets and leads enterprise operations, infrastructure modernization and strategic transformation across a $1B annual portfolio supporting more than 3,200 employees, 160 NASA projects and 100 partner agreements.
Deylami’s UCA Leadership Series will include:
– Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 1:40 p.m.: Lessons in Leadership, Purpose, and Resilience.
– Tuesday, March 31, at 1:40 p.m.: Building People-Centric Cultures of Innovation and Trust.
– Tuesday, April 16, at 3 p.m.: Leading Transformative Vision in Complex Organizations.
All events will be held in the UCA College of Business Auditorium in Conway, Arkansas.
