Business and Scientific Advisory Boards

Business Advisory Board


Kathy Waller

Renowned Business Leader.

Former CFO of Coca-Cola.

Board Director at Delta Airlines.

Board Director at Beyond Meat.

Board Trustee at University of Rochester & Spelman College.

Kristen Blum

Renowned Business Leader.

Board Director at Sprouts Farmers Market and GuideWell,

Former CTO of JCPenny, SVP CIO of Latin America at PepsiCo

Director of international retail at Apple 

Fred Nazem

Renowned Business Leader.

Serial entrepreneur. Founded, financed, and IPO’d several corporations.

Former Chairman of Oxford Health.

Co-led business formation & commercialization of MRI technology.

Ellis Island Medal of Honor Recipient.

Andy Cunningham

Renowned Business Leader.

Entrepreneur, author, board member, advisor.

Brought innovation to market for four decades, notably launching Apple Macintosh with Steve Jobs.

Sineesh Keshav

Renowned Technology Leader.

CTO/CIO Prologis

Former SVP Experian,

Former VP of Technology at Safeway,

Former VP of Technology Development at American Express.

Steve Barr

Renowned Business Leader.

Chairman and Co-founder Biome Capital Partners. Former Global and US Consumer Markets Leader at PwC serving leading brands including NIKE, Levi, Procter & Gamble, and RH.

Karenann Terrell

Renowned Business Leader.

Board director at UiPath and Fractal

Former CTO at Walmart, GSK, and Mercedes-Benz

Advisor at Google and Insight Partners

Lisa Schirf

Renowned Business Leader.

Managing Director, Global Head of Data & Analytics at Tradeweb.

Former COO of Data Strategies and AI at Citadel.

Wayne Shurts

Renowned Business Leader.

Board director at Armstrong World Industries,

Former CTO at Sysco, VP of Business at Nabisco.

Former CIO of SuperValu and Cadbury.

Philippe Schause

Leading Luxury Retail Expansion

CEO of Moet Hennessy, executive committee member at LVMH


Scientific Advisory Board

Deborah Estrin

Health Tech Pioneer.

CS Professor at Cornell Tech.

Affiliate faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Co-founder of Open mHealth.

MacArthur Fellow(Genius Grant).

Manuela Veloso

Renowned AI Leader.

Head of AI Research at J.P.Morgan,
Former President of AAAI

Henry Kautz

Renowned AI Leader.

Former Director for Information & Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester.

Former President of AAAI.

AAAI Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, IJCAI Computers & Thought Award.

Regina Barzilay

Renowned AI Leader.

Delta Electronics Professor at MIT.

MacArthur Fellow (Genius Grant).

Squirrel AI Award for AI for the Benefit of Humanity 2020, MIT Innovator Under 35, AAAI Fellow, ACL Fellow, National Science Foundation Career Award.