Walter De Brouwer, Ph.D.
Walter is or has been many things: an academic, a publisher of computer magazines, an internet entrepreneur, a telecom operator, a lab chief, a banker, an extreme scientist, a father, etc. He holds an M.A. in linguistics and a Ph.D. in semiotics. He is a student of formal grammars, parsers, Nikola Tesla patents and deconstructionism. His wife says he is an anarchist as long as he is in charge.
Misha Chellam
Misha has launched a variety of projects: rock band Speechwriters LLC, real estate company Knight Frank Vietnam, tech accelerator the Founder Institute Brussels, and now Scanadu. He has lived on 3 continents but shamefully speaks only 1 language, though he did excel at ping pong in Vietnam and beer-drinking in Belgium. He earned a B.A. in Politics from Pomona College in 3 years, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Ivo Clarysse
Ivo has worked as a technology consultant for a variety of Fortune 100 companies, most recently a 6-year stint at Philips. He was instrumental in the development of Starlab, a deep-future research institute, and a variety of high-tech startups. At the age of 15, he completed a robot system to clean air preheater systems in electrical power plants. He attended the University of Leuven, studying Informatics, but dropped out after a few years, pursuing more interesting challenges.
Shruti Mathur, M.D.
Shruti is an M.D. with a broad range of experience across medical fields, and a passion for technology in medicine. She has worked as a traumatologist and ER doctor in Europe and Asia, set up medical camps across economically challenged zones in 3rd world countries, and trained NATO doctors on medical scenarios at war. She is fluent in 5 languages, an adventurous cook, and loves spending time with her family on the San Francisco bay.
Jamison Feramisco, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Jamison Feramisco is Chief Operating Officer/Chief Medical Officer of DermLink and founder of KnightMD Telemedicine Inc. He maintains a private practice in Internal Medicine and Dermatology. At the intersection of technology, innovation, and consumer-facing patient care lies Scanadu and Dr. Feramisco serves to fulfill and execute the vision of building the Medical Tricorder as Scanadu's Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Feramisco holds degrees in biochemistry, microbiology, and molecular genetics from UCLA and earned M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at UT Southwestern Medical School. His thesis work was completed in the laboratory of Nobel Laureates Drs. Mike Brown and Joe Goldstein.
Yves Béhar
Yves is the founder of fuseproject, a San Francisco based design agency contributing to areas that include technology, furniture, sports, lifestyle and fashion. Béhar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. Béhar brings a humanistic approach to his work with the goal of creating projects that are deeply in-tune with the needs of a sustainable future, connected with human emotions and which enable self-expression.
Anthony Smart, Ph.D.
Dr. Smart has been involved in a wide variety of commercial, military and aerospace projects, designing integrated systems using optics, mechanical and electronic design, signal analysis and software. He began his career at Rolls-Royce, then Spectron and Titan, where he developed several innovative airporne and space-borne laser systems, until 1996 when he devoted more time to NASA projects, designing equipment for the International Space Station, being Mission Scientist on several Microgravity initiatives, and collaborating on ESA satellite programs. In 2004 he started Scattering Solutions, a nanotechnology company specializing in dynamic light scattering and joined Scanadu as Chief Science Officer in 2011. He has chaired many conferences, given invited lectures to several organizations, contributed Chapter 5 to ‘Handbook of Optoelectronics’ (Taylor and Francis, 2006), and holds ten patents with seven more in process. Dr. Smart was born in England and completed a B.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Applied Optics at Imperial College, London.
Aaron Rowe, Ph.D.
Aaron has worked as a forensics investigator, marine biology lab technician, architectural research assistant, science writer, and outdoor survival instructor. As a graduate student, he was the leader of a team that built the CheapStat, an open source potentiostat that can be built for $80 and used to acquire data from a wide variety of biosensors. During that time, he also dabbled with in vitro selection, in vivo biosensing, surface science, organic synthesis and microfluidics. You can often find him standing on a paddleboard, whipping up gourmet food in a public campground, looking for impressive restaurants, or combing through his news feeds. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Eri Gentry
Eri Gentry starts companies when she can't convince someone else to do something. She helped build a cancer research lab in her garage and founded BioCurious, the first hackerspace for biotech. Eri has been in the stock market since the age of 11, after begging her parents for 4 years to let her. She has a degree in Economics from Yale, and is taking drawing classes on the side.
Tito Jankowski
Tito makes biotechnology accessible and useful. He co-created OpenPCR, a low cost DNA copy machine for hobbyists and scientists, and co-founded BioCurious, the West Coast's first hackerspace for biotech, in Sunnyvale, California. For inspiration he loves exploring Chihuly's glasswork at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Tito learned to balance art and science while studying biomedical engineering at Brown University.
Robert Sloan
Robert has brought many consumer products to market. Robert architects systems using his hardware and software skills to bring ideas into reality. He has worked on the Hubble Space Telescope and has an image exploitation workstation he designed in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. He worked at Philips for over 10 years where he helped bring new technologies to Philips medical products. Robert holds many patents and an B.S.E.E. from UCSD and Masters in Digital Signal Processing from SCU.
Brandon Woolsey
Brandon is a recent graduate from Univerity of California, Davis, where he earned a Bachelors degree in Biomedical Engineering and a minor in Comparative Literature. During that time, he led a biomedical engineering team in successfully designing and prototyping a disposable/steerable endotracheal device for use in Emergency Medicine. In his spare time he enjoys playing sports of all types - swimming, baseball, racquetball, golf, bowling etc. - and loves to cook.
Dan Sokol
Dan Sokol has over 30 years of technology experience and is highly regarded in Silicon Valley for his engineering background. A long time technical advisor to Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, Dan’s expertise includes embedded systems design (hardware and software), video post-production, and semi-conductor test engineering (not necessarily in that order). He has a patent on Interactive Storytelling and Design, as well as a patent on Electronic Commercial Transactions with Minors. In 2010 Mr. Sokol was CTO of In-Three, which converts 2D movies to 3D movies for the Hollywood Studios.
Ryan Huss, M.D.
Ryan recently completed his M.D. at nearby Stanford, where he also earned a B.A. in Human Biology. While at Stanford, Ryan conducted medical research in natural killer cell trafficking, brain tumor-initiating cell biology, and public health policy. Ryan hails from sunny Florida, where he previously worked with Navy Seals at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center and the Navy Experimental Diving Unit. Ryan enjoys all cheeses, whiskeys, Spinning, and the occasional Body Pump or Zumba class.
Shomik Chakravarty
Shomik is a chiller. He has worked as a biomedical engineer at Scanadu, and he still works there doing that. He has been known to enjoy cooking, dissecting music, and sitting. Though he has a B.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley, he prefers thinking about math and the occasional riddle.
Pam Showalter, J.D.
Pam has clerked for a US Federal Judge, run a private practice in Pittsburgh & the United Kingdom, and represented Diageo in London on brand protection worldwide. She loves golf, dinner with friends, and Charleston, South Carolina. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in Economics and B.A. in Psychology, and earned her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Erin Bryan
Erin was most recently the Executive Assistant to Dr. Michael Silber in the lab of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Stanley Prusiner. Previously she taught Latin at San Francisco State University. She is a practitioner of the circus arts, including belly dancing, stilt walking, and fire dancing and walking. She earned a B.A. in Classics from Brandeis and an M.A. in Classics from SFSU.