PETER H. STEVENS JR. MEMORIAL STUDENT PRIZE Nearly 20 years ago, the Stevens Family created the endowed scholarship, The Peter H. Stevens Jr. Memorial Student Prize at The Paul Merage School of Business. In honor of Peter Stevens’ long standing commitment to education and the Univerity of California, Irvine, this scholarship is awarded to a graduate student of high merit who serves on a leadership board at the Merage School. During the 2019-2020 academic year, Will Phelps was awarded this scholarship. Will graduated the Full-Time MBA Program in 2020 and is currently employed at Blue Shied of California where he helps bring affordable healthcare to California residents. Additionally, Will still gives back to the Merage School community as a Merage Student Ambassador. For the 2020-2021 academic year, Tiam Setayeshi was awarded this scholarship. Tiam is in the 2021 cohort of the Full-Time MBA program. Tiam is the President of the Merage Student Association, representing over 1,000 graduate students at the Merage School.
Tiam Setayeshi
The 2020-2021 Peter H. Stevens Jr. Memorial Student Prize Recipient Prior to pursuing his MBA, Tiam worked for four years in the retail industry, where he started off as an Omni Financial Planner for Macy’s Inc. for their Fashion Jewelry/Watches division, before moving to grow the businesses within the Kitchen Electrics division at Walmart.com as a Buyer. He is a graduate of The George Washington University where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus in Marketing and holds a minor in Economics. He is leveraging his experience to move into the Entertainment industry, where he hopes to work in a strategy capacity for a major streaming service provider. For fun, he enjoys playing basketball, watching new television shows and movies, and is an avid reader.
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