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STEAM:Coders Chooses New Board Members

First published in the Dec. 29 print issue of the Pasadena Outlook.

The nonprofit organization STEAM:Coders, whose mission is to inspire underrepresented and underserved students and their families through science, technology, engineering, art and math, has announced the addition of three new board members: Michael Persaud, Love Beach and Scot Hutton.

  • Michael Persaud
  • Love Beach
  • Scot Hutton

Persaud is a portfolio manager and investment adviser with Morgan Stanley in Beverly Hills. After spending many years running his own business and working to build others in media and entertainment, Persaud has spent the past 10 years working as an investment adviser to ultra-high net worth individuals and families, as well as select institutions, including foundations and endowments. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Persaud was president of brand development at MUSE Communications, a Hollywood-based advertising agency. Additionally, Persaud co-founded the agency, Persaud Brothers, where he served as president. With Persaud Brothers, Persaud advised several Fortune 500 companies and brands including HBO, Coca-Cola, Tanqueray, Timberland, Procter & Gamble, Verizon, Target, Motorola, Budweiser and the New York Knicks to name a few.
Persaud earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and bachelor’s in finance from University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.
Beach is a creative strategist and management consultant with more than 20 years of experience facilitating decisions to scale businesses. As vice president of Creative Strategy at Blavity Inc., Beach successfully worked with the executive team to scale Blavity Inc. revenue by 400% over four years. Specifically, Beach scaled the creative production department from 15 staff members to 70 over two years, developing go-to-market strategies for new businesses and products. Beach is responsible for brand strategy, experiential design and creative production.
Before taking on her role at Blavity Inc., Beach gained experience as an executive producer at a series of tech media startups focused on producing content for corporate brands in the digital space.
Her career started in traditional management consulting at Accenture with a bachelor’s from NYU Stern Undergraduate Business School in marketing and economics. On a mission to develop young Black professionals, she sits on several advisory boards forging pathways to build diverse creative and tech teams and improve a consumer-focused design that drives business objectives. Beach sits on the Advisory Board for the California Department of Education’s Emerging Careers and Workforce Training Initiative. The vision is to develop a new pathway for design, visual and graphic arts careers in California public high schools, including a registered apprenticeship program to create training and employment opportunities for students from under-resourced communities.
Hutton is a retired Marine and empowering IT executive that puts people first. Hutton currently leads the information security program for a $20 billion real estate firm. Hutton has spent the last 15 years securing enterprises with controls and technology that just plain work. Hutton’s passion for information security can be seen and heard whenever you are within earshot. Prior to moving to his current position, Hutton led both IT and Information Security efforts for credit card companies and retail companies.
Hutton has a deep understanding of how attacks work, and what technical steps can be taken to break the chain of events often leading to large-scale cyber events. Bringing a deep understanding of how cyberattacks works allows Hutton to focus on what he calls “Security That Matters.” This allows him to focus on how to enable business outcomes instead of hindering growth.
Hutton’s time in the Marine Corps impressed the importance of giving back to his community. Through several local organizations Hutton volunteers his time in a range of activities from delivering food, fixing computers and sitting on the board of directors to provide leadership.

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