People

Executive Leadership

Garry Nolan

Executive Director of the Board

Dr. Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Peter Skafish

Executive Director

Dr. Skafish is a sociocultural anthropologist, editor, and translator who has held faculty and research positions at UC Berkeley, the Collège de France, McGill University, and the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He is the author of […]

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Jonathan Berte

Board of Directors, European Union and Technology and Investment Advisory Boards

Jonathan Berte is the founder, chairman of the board, and driving force behind Robovision, a leading AI solution provider on account of their deep learning platform, RVAI. With expertise in applied physics and image processing, […]

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Maura Mindrila

Director of Strategy

Maura Mîndrilà is a multidisciplinary entrepreneur and polymath whose career has spanned multiple markets and includes three successful exits as a serial founder. She believes in the power of networks and community and is an […]

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Charles McCullough

Counsel

I. Charles McCullough III. is an attorney in private practice in the Washington D.C. area. He was confirmed by the US Senate as the nation’s first Intelligence Community Inspector General (“IC IG”) in November 2011, […]

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Advisory Board

Timothy Gallaudet

Natural Sciences Advisory Board, US Government Advisory Board

The Honorable Tim Gallaudet, PhD, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret) is a career oceanographer and technology consultant. Formerly, he served as the acting Undersecretary and Assistant Secretary of Commerce, acting and Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and […]

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Kevin Knuth

Natural Sciences Advisory Board

Kevin Knuth is a Professor of Physics at the University at Albany (SUNY), and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Entropy (MDPI).  He received his Ph.D. in physics with a minor in mathematics in 1995 […]

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Jeffrey J. Kripal

Social Sciences Advisory Board

Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He also helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California […]

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Avi Loeb

Natural Sciences Advisory Board

Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times,Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, L’Express and more). He received a PhD […]

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Aneil Mallavarapu

Investment Advisory Board, Development Committee

Dr. Mallavarapu is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur and investor and holds a PhD from the University of California, San Francisco. His scientific work spans computer science, mathematical systems biology, biochemistry, and cell biology. He is […]

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Diana Pasulka

Social Sciences Advisory Board

Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her scholarship primarily centers on Catholic history, with a special emphasis on the intersection of new religious movements. Her […]

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Jacques Vallée

Emeritus Advisor

Dr. Jacques Fabrice Vallée is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist, and astronomer residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France. His scientific career began as a professional astronomer at the Paris […]

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Beatriz Villarroel

Natural Sciences Advisory Board

Dr. Beatriz Villarroel is a researcher in astronomy at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita) in Stockholm. She leads the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project (www.vascoproject.org) and the […]

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