We know a thing or two about games and science
Our Core Team
Chethan Ramachandran
Former CEO of Playnomics, (acquired by Unity) - predictive and behavioral analytics pioneer, now Unity Analytics, processing 1.5B devices monthly.
Davin Miyoshi
Former CEO of Mesmo (acquired by GSN) - social game publisher that grew GSN Games to 75MM+ users worldwide and $100MM+ in revenue.
Michael Mangus
Full-Stack/ML Engineer and Computational Social Scientist. Former Founding Engineer at Golden. Postdoc, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies; PhD Mass Communication, Media Neuroscience Lab, UC Santa Barbara; BS Information Science, University of Pittsburgh.
Aritra Sengupta
Full-Stack Engineer. Former Senior Software Engineer at Medallia, an AI/ML Enterprise Customer Experience/Analytics Platform. PhD Georgia Tech; BS IIT Kharagpur.
George Kachergis
Former Research Scientist at Stanford's Language and Cognition Lab with a focus on language, learning, and memory. Former Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Donders Institute / Radboud University. PhD in Cognitive Science, Indiana University; BA Computer Science, Carleton College.
Ying Huang
Product Designer and creative problem solver. Former Senior Product Designer at StockX and Interaction/Digital Designer at The Designory and NUVI. BFA Design and Applied Arts, Columbia College Chicago.
Advisors
We've partnered with experts in psychology, neuroscience, the future of work, learning, and games.
Dr. Richard Robins
Dr. Rick Robins is one of the world’s leading experts in personality assessment and research. Currently he is a Professor at UC Davis where he is the Director of the Personality / Self / Emotion Lab. Dr. Robins has published over 200 scientific articles and books, including the Handbook of Personality and the Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology. His research has been funded by over $20 million in federal grants, he received a “Distinguished Scientific Award” from the American Psychological Association, and he holds a PhD in Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Dr. Galen Buckwalter
Dr. Galen Buckwalter was the founding Chief Scientist of eHarmony where he created their assessment and matching system. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of psyML, a company that uses behavioral science, machine learning, and advanced psychometric methods to help companies better understand their target populations. He has been a research psychologist for over 25 years. As a professor at USC, he worked primarily on the effects of hormones on cognition during pregnancy and aging using psychometrics. Galen has researched at the Institute for Creative Sciences at USC using VR to develop a resilience training program for Marines, and most recently as Chief Science Officer at Payoff.
Steve Arnold
Steve Arnold is a Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus of Polaris Partners. Steve is also Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Prior to Polaris he built LucasArts Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games which produced advanced video games and interactive entertainment. He was recruited by Bill Gates to run Corbis Corp. which was purchased by Microsoft, and Steve joined as the VP of Broadband Media Applications.
Steve Cadigan
Steve Cadigan is one of the foremost global authorities on finding and retaining talent. A noted expert on all topics related to the future of work and learning, Steve served as VP Talent at LinkedIn from 2009 through 2012, taking the company from a private firm of 400 employees, through an IPO and into the powerhouse that it is recognized as today.
Noah Falstein
Most recently Google's Chief Game Designer, Noah has been a professional game developer since 1980 with many hit title credits and was an early hire at LucasArts, 3DO, and Dreamworks Interactive. His freelance design business, The Inspiracy is focused on games for health, specifically neurogaming. He has chapters published in six different game industry books.
Steve Gatfield
Steve Gatfield brings a deep understanding of global consumer marketing to Skillprint. He is currently Group Chairman of Elmwood, one of the premier brand design firms in the world. Prior to that, he was a senior executive at the biggest ad agencies in the world, including CEO of Lowe Worldwide, EVP at Interpublic and COO of Leo Burnett. Steve’s education and background are in behavioral psychology.