The team. 

Doug worked for many years on NIH- and HHS-funded projects in telemedicine and other applications of computer science. He has worked with small businesses and government agencies on a wide variety of projects from optimizing medical record systems to finding ways to reduce greenhouse gas when producing high-quality animal feed. His book Overhauling America’s Healthcare Machine has been widely used in healthcare and economics courses. Since 2017, he has been focused on reversing the adverse impact of screen-based activities on physical and mental health.

Ken is a professor of psychological sciences at University of Missouri. His research focuses on well-being, motivation, self-determination theory, personality, and positive psychology. He is the recipient of the Templeton Foundation “Positive Psychology” prize and the Ed and Carol Diener award for mid-career achievement in personality psychology. He is the author of Optimal Human Being: An Integrated Multi-Level Perspective, Self-determination Theory in the Clinic: Motivating physical and mental health and has written and edited several other academic books, and more than 200 academic articles and book chapters.

Jaimie brings 20+ years expertise developing and leading proven GTM and growth strategies for startup ventures and Fortune 500 brands that include Sleek Technologies, Experity Health, Unicarriers Americas, JPMorgan Chase, Sears Holdings and MillerCoors (Starcom). She earned her B.A at Columbia College Chicago, and her M.B.A at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. She lives and breathes by her personal motto: hungry, humble, smart.

Jim has more than 20 years of experience leading revenue, strategy, and business development at top media companies. Selling over $500M in ad sponsorships, licensing and partnerships, Jim has considerable experience selling for brands geared toward younger consumers. He earned a B.S. in advertising from Arizona State and completed an Advanced Leadership Program from Harvard University.

With a career spanning 18 years in the software engineering space, including 10 in management and 8 in the C-Suite, Brandon has amassed experience across 8 different industry sectors. His track record of success includes working with off/near-shore development teams in 9 countries, showcasing his ability to lead and manage diverse technology teams effectively. Although he is a Microsoft Certified Professional, he remains tech agnostic and intentionally tries to choose and utilize the most cost-effective and efficient technologies, languages, and tools to accomplish scalable business outcomes.

A professional with career spanning over 19 years, Lavanya has been a user advocate for life. With a background in Engineering and High Tech, Lavanya's primary focus has been in Trust & safety and Customer success.
Lavanya's career path has been non linear and she worked her way up by working in Sales, Product, program and Operations and grown into leadership roles. Coaching and Mentoring always excite her and she is a learner for life. She is passionate about helping her clients and organizations learn user advocacy and design strategies they need to succeed.

Pop (Don’t call him Steve. He probably won’t answer.) is our CTO responsible for the architecture, development, security, and support for all DoCurious products. He led a 15-person team at Xiotech to develop the Corporate Electronic Management System used for mitigating corporate litigation exposure. Pop was also the Director of Web services at Serveron and Director of Product Development at Protocol Systems. He has two B.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.B.A. from Portland University.

Jean is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of more than 140 scientific publications and books including iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood and Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before. She shows college faculty and staff, high school teachers, military personnel, and corporate executives how to teach and work with today’s young generation based a on a dataset of 11 million young people.

Sonja is professor of psychology at UC Riverside and the author of the best-selling books The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness. She is a leader in the field of well-being science focusing on the benefits of happiness, why some people are happier than others, and how happiness can be durably increased. A graduate of Harvard and Stanford, she has won many honors, including the Faculty of the Year Award (twice) and Distinguished Research Lecturer Award from UC Riverside, a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, a Science of Generosity grant, and a Psychology & Philosophy grant.

Dennis has 25 years of senior management experience in high tech and bioscience companies. He was President and CEO of two startups and General Manager of Nellcor Europe—turning around a losing European Operation into 12% IBT and helping Nellcor grow from start-up to $200M. He was Director of International Operations for Protocol Systems, and the Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for Serveron. He has extensive global operations experience and has helped raise $37M in start-up capital.