Cyd Crouse
I believe that by bringing meditation to the masses, Muse and Meditation Studio can change the world. A technologist by training, I have focused my career on working for companies that do good, including Whole Foods Market and most recently as the COO & CDO at Gaiam, Inc.
Jill Staib
Ms. Staib is Director and Partner of William Hood & Company, a differentiated industry-focused investment banking practice covering the Consumer, Food and Retail sectors. William Hood & Company is a division of AXIA Capital Markets LLC, a U.S. registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA.
Prior to William Hood & Company, Jill was Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for The Nature’s Bounty Co. Her global role focused on M&A, Corporate Development and Growth Strategy. In this capacity, she led a variety of highly complex, prioritized transactions and projects including the sale of The Nature’s Bounty Company from The Carlyle Group to KKR and the sale of U.K. based retailer Holland & Barrett from The Carlyle Group to Letter1 Retail representing the largest combined M&A transaction ever within the nutritional supplement industry.
During her tenure at The Nature’s Bounty Co., Jill also held a variety of operational leadership roles including managing the Nature’s Bounty, Pure Protein, Body Fortress and Met-Rx brands, as well as the company’s Private Label business.
Jill’s passion for brands combined with her retailer relationships resulted in her driving a number of the key strategic growth opportunities behind the success of the Nature’s Bounty Company in recent years. While managing the Nature’s Bounty brand Jill successfully created and launched the Optimal Solutions line including its flagship product Hair, Skin and Nails, the current market leader in women’s health supplements and the fastest growing line extension in the company’s history with over $100M in revenue. She was also responsible for the turn-around of Pure Protein, the company’s most successful active nutrition brand.
Prior to joining The Nature’s Bounty Co., Jill was the Brand Director for natural skincare line Naturopathica Holistic Health. In that role Jill was responsible for product design, marketing and distribution.
Devin Terhune
Devin’s research on time perception aims to understand the factors underlying transient fluctuations in timing, the extent to which timing is supported by different subsystems, and distortions in timing in altered states of consciousness and clinical populations. His research on suggestion seeks to characterize the neurocognitive profile of highly suggestible individuals and understand the mechanisms underlying suggestion in hypnosis and placebo. He also has broader interests in awareness, metacognition, and functional neurological and dissociative disorders. Devin’s research uses a variety of techniques including MRI, EEG, non-invasive brain stimulation, eye-tracking, and a diverse array of statistical approaches.
Joseph Welstead
Aaron Hinde
My passion for athleticism and my ability to equip people with the formula to preform at maximum capacity has played a major role throughout my career. My name is Aaron Hinde and I am the Co-Founder and President of LIFEAID Beverage Company, where we re-imagine what you drink. LIFEAID is a leading manufacturer of premium, healthy, and convenient nutritional products designed to boost performance and speed recovery for people pursuing active and healthy lifestyles. Basically, we make vitamins you'll actually enjoy drinking!
After earning a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College, I served as Clinic Director at Hinde Chiropractic Sports Injury and Pain Center for over ten years. As one of the top practices in Santa Cruz County, I helped over 5,000 individuals, including professional athletes, erase their pain and return to function as quickly as possible.
Being immersed in the health field, I noticed a genuine need in the marketplace for clean and effective sports drinks without the sugar and artificial flavoring. In 2011, I co-founded LIFEAID to provide individuals with specially formulated, low-sugar, high-value natural supplement beverages. Each of our nine beverage options, FITAID, FOCUSAID, LIFEAID, IMMUNITYAID, GOLFERAID, RX, FIT ZERO, RX ZERO and PARTYAID, are made with custom ingredients to provide customers with unique benefits ranging from enhancing athletic execution, to delivering mental acuity and improved concentration
Vince Clark
Dr. Clark has worked with MRN as Director of Neuroscience, then as Scientific Director recruiting scientists and helping MRN to increase its grant portfolio by expanding into new areas of research such as addiction, accelerated learning, and multimodal imaging. In association with the Department of Psychology at UNM, where he is Founding Director of the new Clinical Neuroscience Center, he and his associates investigate the relationship between mind and brain. He employs structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), event-related potentials (ERPs) and methods of transcranial brain stimulation, including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), as well as other methods to examine human brain structure and function. Using these tools, he is investigating the basic organizational principles of perception, learning, memory, attention and language in healthy individuals. He also uses these methods to examine the neural basis of psychiatric disorders such as drug and gambling addiction, psychopathy and schizophrenia. He is developing new methods of data analysis for combining data from different imaging techniques to gain fundamentally new information on human brain structure and function, and is using this and other methods to expand the boundaries of brain imaging techniques. His recent area of research examines how tDCS can be used to increase learning and performance in healthy subjects, and the mechanisms by which tDCS produces changes in brain function and behavior. Brain stimulation may lead to a variety of innovations in classroom education and professional training, along with new treatments for psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Fabian Foelsch
Fabian Foelsch is co-founder & CEO of BRAINEFFECT one of the first performance food brands in Europe. The Berlin-based food start-up aims to improve the mental performance of top-athletes & high performers by providing innovative products and concepts. Fabian uses his personal experience as an professional athlete & strategic consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to shape the future of performance food in Germany. Moreover, he lectures as a branding expert at the University of Applied Science Stralsund. Above all, he is a passionate kitesurfer and food nerd.
Dr. Lew Lim
Dr. Lew Lim is the Founder & CEO of Vielight Inc., and is the inventor of the devices offered by the company. He is a leader in translating the science of photobiomodulation (PBM) into wearable and personal use products, particularly in the field of neurology and neuro science. Today, he directs much of his energy in the search of a solution for Alzheimer’s disease and other brain diseases using PBM. He is also actively pursuing to realize the potential of PBM to address other medical conditions and to enhance human potential. His education and training comprises of engineering, neuroscience, natural medicine, finance, accountancy and management. He obtained his degrees and diplomas from University of California at Berkeley, University of Sheffield, Quantum University, Duke University and The Institute of Chartered Management Accountants, UK.
Devon White
Devon White is co-founder and CEO of Field, a cutting edge brain optimization company specializing in personalized, precision-based neuro-enhancement and comprehensive lifestyle upgrades for its clients. In addition to in-person brick-and-mortar locations, Devon is helping Field’s team to develop its AI platform that will enable personalized brain wellness and enhancement to scale.
Along with Field, Devon is the Director of Brand Strategy for Apeiron, the world leaders in epigenetic coaching and precision performance medicine. He speaks regularly at industry events on the importance of a wellness first, data-driven approach to human health and optimization.
At the center of all other projects, Devon is the architect and managing partner of a stealth media and technology project designed to bring precision medicine to a global audience in an effort to upend and update outdated models of wellness and bureaucracy.
