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Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tia Rains, Ph. D., is Vice President of Customer Engagement & Strategic Development at Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc., a division of Japanese food and biotechnology Ajinomoto Corporation, which produces seasonings, cooking oils, frozen foods, beverage, sweeteners, amino acids, and pharmaceuticals. Dr. Rains has over 20 years of experience working on h...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Bakary Tandia is a well-respected and dynamic human rights advocate with an extensive background in promoting human rights and social justice causes and Co-Founder of The Abolition Institute, a group working to promote awareness of, and dedicated to ending, the practice of slavery in the west African country of Mauritania. Mr. Tandia is a graduate of the Global Masters Program...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Neta Lavon is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President of R&D at Aleph Farms, a cultivated meat company that is shaping the future of food by growing high-quality, slaughter-free beef steaks directly from cow cells, preserving natural resources, and avoiding the use of antibiotics. Dr. Lavon is an expert in stem cell applications in biotechnology. In her previ...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Dennis McKenna is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer, author, and Founder of the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy (www.mckenna.academy). Dr. McKenna is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic use...

Send us Fan Mail  Stephan Gans is Senior Vice President, Chief Consumer Insights and Analytics Officer at PepsiCo, where he leads the company’s focus on better understanding emotional motivations, anticipating consumer behaviors, strengthening customer connections and driving overall business growth. Prior to joining PepsiCo, Stephan was the chief strategy officer for Interbrand North America, ove...

Send us Fan Mail Bjørn Haugland is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SKIFT Business Climate Leaders ( https://www.skiftnorge.no/english ), a Norwegian business-led climate initiative with a mission to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy and support the government in delivering on its national climate commitments by 2030. The coalition hopes to demonstrate, to businesses a...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. James Allen is a primary care internal medicine specialist who developed a fascinating career in international health management and leadership. Dr. Allen served in the U.S. public health service before moving to Indonesian Borneo in 1994. For the next 22 years he worked in community and occupational health across Asia, managing health teams in 14 countries. As Chevron’s Asia...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Daniel Ives, Ph. D. is Founder and CEO of Shift Bioscience Ltd. ( https://shiftbioscience.com ), a biotech company making drugs for cellular rejuvenation in humans through the application of machine-learning 'driver' clocks to cellular reprogramming, and is the scientific founder who first discovered the gene shifting targets upon which the Shift drug discovery platf...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Ingo Rauth, is the Founder and Career Purpose Coach, of The School of Becoming, a learning platform focused on purpose-led professional development, supporting individuals and organizations on the path from paycheck to purpose. Dr. Rauth is also an Adjunct Professor in Design and Innovation Management at IE business School in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Rauth's current research i...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Bonnie Offit, MD is the Chief Digital Health Officer at the technology company Self Care Decisions which has an innovative online medical symptom tracker and triage system which helps healthcare organizations provide self care decision content to their patients, plan members and communities. Dr. Offit also recently served as Clinical Advisor in Digital Health, at Children&apos...

Send us Fan Mail  Christina Hunger is a speech pathologist and the creator of Hunger for Words, which is working at the fascinating intersection of animal psychology, speech pathology, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Christina is known for her groundbreaking work in being the first person to teach her dog Stella to talk using a customized communication device and speech thera...

Send us Fan Mail Stephanie Smith is a Director, in the Humanitarian & Development group, at Mastercard ( https://www.mastercard.us ), the American multinational financial services corporation. Stephanie is responsible for operations of the Humanitarian & Development group at Mastercard, and ensuring the team’s efficient, consistent, and effective delivery against their vision to provide di...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Kazuhiro Gomi, is President and CEO of NTT Research ( https://ntt-research.com/ ), a division of The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, commonly known as NTT ( https://www.global.ntt/ ), a Japanese telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Gomi has been at NTT for more than 30 years and was involved in product management/product development activit...

Send us Fan Mail Barry Dean is an award-winning songwriter turned smart wheelchair technology company founder. As CEO of LUCI ( https://luci.com/ ), a company re-imagining mobility for power wheelchairs, Barry sets the strategic vision and leads the company towards its goal of providing security, stability and connectivity for power wheelchairs. He founded the company with his brother, Jered, in 2...

Send us Fan Mail Sergey Young ( https://sergeyyoung.com/ ) is a longevity investor, visionary, and author, with a mission to help one billion people extend their healthy lifespans by making longevity affordable and accessible for everyone. As part of this mission, he is the Founder of the Longevity Vision Fund (LVF - https://lvf.vc/ ), a $100 Million venture capital fund that invests in technologi...

Send us Fan Mail Lisa Gable is the Chief Executive Officer, of Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE - https://www.foodallergy.org ), an organization with a mission to improve the quality of life and the health of 85 million Americans with food allergies and food intolerances, including 32 million of those are at risk for life-threatening anaphylaxis, and to provide them hope through the pro...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Bahareh (Spring) Behrouz, PhD, is the CEO of Vincere Biosciences Inc ( https://vincerebio.com/ ), a biotech company focused on developing novel, small molecule therapeutics targeting mitochondrial pathways and the improvement of mitochondrial quality. Dr. Behrouz is also the CEO of NeuroInitiative, LLC ( https://www.neuroinitiative.com/ ), a computational biology company she c...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jean M. Hebert, Ph. D. ( https://einsteinmed.org/faculty/9069/... ) is Professor in the Department of Genetics and in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He’s also the author of the book Replacing Aging, which describes how regenerative medicine will beat aging. With a Ph. D. in Genetics from the University of California,...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Vicki Fishlock Ph. D. is a Resident Scientist, at The Amboseli Trust for Elephants ( https://www.elephanttrust.org/ ), an organization that aims to ensure the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants in the context of human needs and pressures, through scientific research, training, community outreach, public awareness and advocacy, and which is involved in the...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, is an innovative conservation biologist, who is Founder and President of the non-profit Amazon Biodiversity Center, the renowned Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, and the person who coined the term “biological diversity”. Dr. Lovejoy currently serves as Professor in the department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University, a...

Send us Fan Mail  Mr. Siva Balu is Vice President and Chief Information Officer of YMCA of the U.S. (Y-USA), where he is working to rethink and reorganize the work of the organization’s information technology strategy to meet the changing needs of Y-USA and Ys throughout the country. The YMCA is a leading nonprofit committed to strengthening community by connecting all people to their potential, p...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Veronica Rodriguez-Bravo, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia, PA, USA. ( https://sidneykimmelcancercenter.jeff... ) Dr. Rodriguez-Bravo obtained her PhD in Pathology and Cell Biology (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Barcelona in 2007, where she also received the Ext...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Sean Guillory, Ph. D. is Senior Robotics Process Automation Developer, at Booz Allen Hamilton, the U.S. management and information technology consulting firm. Dr. Guillory went to Dartmouth College where he received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) in Cognitive Neuroscience, followed by Postdoctoral Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center where he worked on mapping behavior an...

Send us Fan Mail  Mandy Sellars is the Chairperson of GoPI3Ks charity, which is focused on people with PIK3CA related overgrowth spectrum (PROS), an umbrella term for a group of very rare syndromes characterized by malformations and tissue overgrowth, caused by somatic mutations in PIK3CA gene. PIK3CA stands for phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase, catalytic sub-unit alpha, a gene that...

Send us Fan Mail Carole Fisher is President for the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), where utilizing her experience and deep familiarity with not-for-profit community-based hospice and palliative healthcare, she is charged with leading a wide range of activities for the membership organization, including developing strategic partnerships, meaningful collaborations...