Elected: 2025
Current Term Ends: 2029
Committee: Academic Affairs & Student Experience, Advancement
Jeff Weiss founded CCI, Inc. in 1986. CCI develops and conducts ongoing executive forums limited to CEOs, Board Leaders, and C-Suite Executives of major technology and healthcare organizations across the United States. CCI’s forums provide fresh insight into tough business issues by leveraging peer discussion and the resources of outside experts.
Jeff is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA, where he co-leads Leadership for UCLA/Rand National Clinician Scholars Program (Formerly Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars).
In 1983, Jeff co-founded the Southern California Technology Executives Network (SO/CAL/TEN), composed of 210 technology CEOs and sponsored by leading venture capital, investment banking, major law and search firms. SO/CAL/TEN was recognized by Inc. and Fortune as one of the first and most successful high-tech network organizations.
Previously, he was Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA Medical School and Director of the Department of Behavioral Medicine at the UCLA/San Bernardino County Medical Center, where he taught Family Medicine and Introduction to Psychiatry to UCLA/UCR Medical Students. He is a licensed Psychologist specializing in behavioral medicine, achievement motivation and career strategy.
Previously, Jeff was a Director at: RAND Health; Equality Health (Strategic Advisory Board); City of Hope Medical Center; High Technology Group; Chrysalis, a homeless employment organization; Homeboy Industries; and MindCare Solutions, a venture-funded Telepsychiatry Firm spun out of Vanderbilt. He was also a Trustee of the California School of Professional Psychology and of the California Academy of Family Physicians.
Currently, he is a Trustee and was a Founding Director of Thrive Scholars, which provides mentoring and scholarships to high-achieving students of color from economically under-resourced communities. Jeff is also on the Board of AltaMed, the largest federally qualified health center, and ThriveWell BLU, a longevity and wellness center.
He received a PhD in Clinical Psychology and an MS in Organizational Development from the California School of Professional Psychology and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tennessee Medical School.