Meta-Brain Labs Leadership Team

Alexandrea Day, Founder, CEO, Author, Innovator

Mark Audino, CMO, Sales & Marketing Strategy

Ed Krow, Chief Knowledge Officer
Longstanding behavioral science clinician, neuroscience innovator, and tech futurist, Alexandrea has pioneered major initiatives that advance societal health and human achievement. Her lifetime of research combined with thousands of client interactions has accrued into a holistic understanding of the human operating system and its intrinsic potential. Earned insights and unique interpretations of both the aspirations and unmet needs of the human condition and how it connects with the world became the motivational force to create a scalable breakthrough in behavioral analysis and a new treatment methodology.
Defined as Adaptive Therapy, it’s a category-defining process of identifying and modifying self-limiting beliefs stored in the unconscious. Well beyond the concept of table-stakes analysis and self-help treatments, Adaptive Therapy defines a new level of bespoke and actionable self-change.
Her premise of Adaptive Therapy is that the human mind is programmable, a foundational understanding widely supported by scientific findings and literature. In her book, Meta-Brain, she explains how Adaptive Therapy enables an interlocking system of positive change. It begins with deep exploration and honest learning of one’s inner self and then guides the way step-by-step to re-program or “un-learn” disillusionments and stressor-inhibitors that burden the human spirit. The adapted state of mind takes better control over variables and generates new powers of belief free to excel in performance and attain health and well-being—permanently.
Alexandrea has taught the Adaptive Therapy process through her Washington State Vocational School, and travels globally to teach the techniques of Adaptive Therapy to individuals, healthcare professionals, and licensed therapists.
She also founded IAffirm, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit, that addresses the gap between medical and mental disease treatments, measures the impact of psychosocial events that cause stress, and advises evidence-based treatment plans. IAffirm’s mission is to ignite innovation that advocates and strengthens human nobility through behavioral research projects and authoring hyper-learning products for Meta-Brain Labs™, the for-profit neuro-tech sister company.
As CEO, she is directing Meta Brain Labs™ to operationalize four lines of business: Enterprise Transformation, Sports Performance, Healthcare, and Innovation – each delivering disruptive real-life solutions and enabling open access by third parties, researchers, and strategic partners to develop new applications using the Adaptive Therapy platform. Founded on the core belief in human possibility, the success model for Meta Brain Labs™ extends beyond pursuing product innovations, sound financials, and a leadership market position. Its higher calling will be to improve the health and well-being of humanity at large and help it achieve more of its limitless potential.
My WHY could be seen as dark: “To save humanity from itself.” However, this comes from the perspective of a therapist watching the deterioration of human behavior. While we have immediate communication, improved education, extended life expectancy, and reduced poverty around the world we have also created pollution, economic and social disruption, political polarization, misinformation, inequity, and large-scale conflict. We have also created a world that is outpacing human capacity to adapt. So, when I say, save humanity from itself, it means to provide adaptive tools to not only keep up with the pace of change but to build resilience to lead in it.
The process I have taught and used with thousands of people over the last 4 decades helps people change the way they view their lives, modifying perceptions that block achievement or keep a person stuck in programmed behaviors that do not work anymore. This process frees people to make conscious choices and live by them instead of being drawn back into conformity to old beliefs.
I do this to help humanity become more Self-conscious; to be aware of their inner knowing and tap it using my process in a digital, scalable platform that enables you to know you.
It is my hope that this leads to a reshaping of our collective experience of human advancement to include how we treat, support and care about each other.
Mark Audino has led multiple new category launches, strategic growth missions, and business turnarounds for Fortune 500, mid-market, and start-up companies while serving as a senior executive in various strategy, product development, marketing, and business development roles.
His corporate-, agency-, and consulting-side experience as a market-maker spans B2B, B2C, D2C, and Non-profit sectors across multiple major industries globally. Specializations include business strategy and planning; P&L management; product and SaaS commercialization; brand development; building integrated marketing and sales ecosystems; sales management; and strategic partner relationships.
He has successfully led first-mover technology projects involving R&D budgets in the billion-dollar range. As a Board Member for the 5th largest international professional services network, he led the alignment of 120 independent firms to a consistent set of operating principles, brand strategy, and revenue growth programs. As VP & CMO responsible for building digital technologies spanning multiple business units and market sectors, he established a unifying brand strategy and consistent value narrative that ensured a successful launch, displacements of major competitors, and above-plan revenue trajectory.
He led the due diligence and seamless integration of a $950mm competitor acquisition. He has hosted over 150 Fortune 500 Executive Leadership Teams for non-disclosure discussions concerning future technologies. His brand-building strategies have included major sports and affinity marketing programs including a PGA TOUR tournament hosted by The Davis Love Foundation, formation of a Brand Ambassador program utilizing PGA and LPGA pros, the introduction of golf into the Special Olympics, and a league-winning Indy Car sponsorship. Philanthropic objectives tied to the professional golf platform have generated over $30mm for charities to date.
Synchronously leading strategy and marketing, he built and managed sales organizations and independent sales channels operating in multiple routes to market. He led the development of an advisory-based business pursuit process founded on ground-breaking research into executive buyer and seller behaviors that re-wrote the selling strategy and client service model for a major business services firm.
Most recently, he led strategy and business development for an AI platform that reinvents the creative development process for the life sciences industry; developed strategies for emerging media; and architected a tech-enabled hyper-relevant retail buying process.
Notable awards are President’s Club (Xerox Corporation); Chairman’s Special Merit Award (Xerox Corporation); Partner of the Year (RSM US, LLP); and The National Relationship Award for Marketing (RSM, US LLP).
I squinted into the bright stage lights of a large auditorium one night during my grade school days and delivered a speech to an audience numbering over 300. It was the Optimist Oratorical Contest, and surprisingly I won. While optimism can be blind, my version of it expressed an immutable belief in human possibility.
But I also learned about the struggles and fragility of the human condition as life progressed. Exploratory travel took me deep into the remote territory of 56 countries where I was guided by the poorest of the poor. Some lived at high altitude and struggled to keep warm at night while others sleep on the ground in torrid jungles hoping for cool breeze. And yet, in the face of their poverty, they worked hard to help me realize my dream of adventure travel.
In the global business world, I experienced first-hand how people will dig deep and push themselves to outperform against all odds. Their critical thinking and selflessness led to some incredibly big corporate wins and financial rewards. But along the way, there were costs. The pressure to succeed took a heavy toll because “good enough” was never considered.
Constant reflection on these two extremes led me to find purpose and satisfaction in helping others realize their dreams – people on an individual level aspiring to do better and be better, and organizations with growth imperatives coping with complexity and uncertainty. The work of Meta-Brain Labs unlocks a major part of the “why now?” and “how?” for them.
Everything we build benefits them in pragmatic, real-life contexts of working in an enterprise, playing sports, and endeavoring in life. Discovering their true inner selves and living based on choices is the breakthrough that unleashes their potential. And I believe the upside for this cause is grand.
Ed is a talent and company culture expert who challenges the traditional model of HR and prepares decision-makers for motivating their people with a win-win strategy in the Experience Age.
The only Talent Transformation Expert in his field, Ed has helped over 250 clients achieve talent and culture transformations, including Fortune 500 companies like Bosch, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson. When the world went virtual, he was invited to speak to the Global Soft Skills Community at Microsoft, with excellent reviews and feedback, a testament to his value during times of rapid change.
Starting at UPS, Ed worked from the ground up. Along the way, he noticed that the best results happened when people could do their work without having to change who they were – a critical insight.
Ambitious and eager to add value, Ed was given a chance by a leader who believed in him. His career at UPS was pivotal. Buoyed by his insight and a desire to help others, Ed’s entrepreneurial spirit eventually led him to become a consultant in strategic human resources. Twenty years later, Ed continues to find his work professionally and personally rewarding.
A speaker, trainer and coach certified by The John Maxwell Team; Ed’s topics bring a refreshing perspective on how to leverage what is commonly viewed as “people problems” and turn negative growth into business success.
Ed is a member of the National Speakers Association, the Forbes Coaches Council, and a regular contributor to Forbes.com. He is the author of “Strategic HR: Driving Bottom Line Results Through Your People”.
When he’s not speaking at conferences or helping clients, Ed teaches at Millersville University. His first love is family, with golf vying for a tight second. If you do catch him at home, he’s likely cheering for the Notre Dame or Baltimore Ravens football teams.

Mike Lauder, CFO

Adrian Bubela, Technical Director

Andy Parratt, Biotechnology Adviser, Meta-Brain Healthcare
Mike is an accomplished finance executive respected for an over 20-year tenure creating innovative operational strategies to drive growth, mitigate risks and maximize opportunities in technology-driven environments spanning numerous industries.
He has a proven track record of prioritizing strategic planning and budgeting to drive efficiencies and reduce costs. Known as a transparent, data-driven leader who fosters high-performing teams to enhance the accuracy and timeliness of required reporting, metrics, and project updates, Mike is an out-of-the-box thinker committed to improving operational systems, processes, and policies to support and fuel business and organizational planning.
Mike’s mantra is measure what matters, build scale on the wins, learn from the losses, always with an intense focus on increasing shareholder value.
Mike currently resides in NJ with his saint of a wife and three very active children.
My WHY is simple, yet life-changing. My WHY is “To help others wake up”.
Years ago, I was living what unfortunately has become the norm for far too many people these days. While I had the life I’ve always wanted (good career, loving and supportive wife, three healthy and active children), I was not living life, and something was always weighing me down.
That something was STRESS. Instead of every opportunity at work, activity with kids, or time spent with my soulmate being a source of joy, each was just another source of stress due to competing demands, fear of failure, and never-ending self-doubt. This stress was not external, it was internal and 100% brought on by my own stress response system.
Stress is crippling. It is the biggest hurdle in our daily lives. It prevents us from enjoying life. It is the number one cause of physical and mental illness in the world today. It continuously hinders us from performing at our optimal level.
Stress has been an epidemic for decades. Time magazine’s June 6, 1983 cover story called stress “The Epidemic of the Eighties” and referred to it as our leading health problem. In the 40+ years that followed, things have certainly not improved, and today 84% of Americans report being stressed.
Current solutions of drugs and coping mechanisms are not true solutions and simply mask and exacerbate the problem. The world needs a true solution, not a mask.
Meta-Brain Labs is creating that solution. Our Meta-Brain products sit at the cross-section of Adaptive Therapy and cutting-edge Brain Computer Interface technology. This technology will deliver Adaptive Therapy at scale, reprogram humans’ stress response systems, and allow humans to live their best lives while performing at optimal levels at home, work, and play.
It took me far too long to understand my stress response system, far too long to have a Meta-Brain, and far too long to wake up.
My WHY is simple, yet life-changing. My WHY is “To help others wake up.”
Since 2003, as an engineer, he has specialized in Neural Networks and Machine learning (ML) as a set of methods in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field, a set of algorithms applied to create a machine that learns from its own experience. The basis of this is processing huge data arrays and finding and recognizing patterns by Neural Networks.
His first achievement is the development of software solutions using dynamic neural networks that operate based on expert data and imitate the natural human brain behavior. The peculiarity of these dynamic neural networks is the specific forming of their primary topology, adapting to a large number of expert’s conclusions in various fields of science, as well as the further reformatting and adaptation of this topology and the neural network structure with their gradual learning during the use of technology based on each newly acquired knowledge. In February 2003, he received a copyright certificate for software (UA7095): “Universal diagnostic software” based on the dynamic neuro-expert system of artificial intelligence.
This experience found its practical application in developing several software solutions for analyzing and forecasting financial markets based on neural networks and genetic algorithms. In addition, guided by the obtained stable results of these neural networks’ work, he created a private investment fund that uses this author’s algo-trading developments.
Since 2007, he has been the founder of several software development companies specializing in custom healthcare, education, and highly specialized business software solutions, and he is also a co-owner and business partner in a few joint technology companies.
I have been working with startups for 15 years. About 600 people search for my LinkedIn profile every month. Daily I correspond with dozens of startup owners who want to develop their idea. Every day I conduct 3-4 new introductory meetings with potential clients, and about 80% of them are startups at various funding stages, at various maturity levels, and with different problems.
Also, guided by my experience, currently, I can predict quite accurately the difficulties that this or that idea will face on the way to its growth and what exactly is required from the owner of this startup and their team.
Because no matter how brilliant the idea is, the key to success is the synergy of many factors, and one of the top factors is a team that can bring it to life. And just as there are thinkers and originators of the idea in any team, there should be implementation specialists. Therefore, my presence in this team is to turn the vision of thinkers and originators of the idea into an understandable tool for consumers, protecting it from such frequent and typical problems that hinder growth so that all the “Why” of thinkers and originators of the idea could become embodied.
As a commercial strategy consultant Andrew leverages his expertise in product development, commercialization, launch strategy, lifecycle & alliance management and business development to help client companies, in multiple markets and therapy areas, develop, launch, and gain access for, compelling products.
At Karuna Therapeutics, he led the cross-functional launch team developing and executing the go-to-market plan, including building the foundation for and securing funding for a launch organization of >300 people and annual budget of $100M. He hired heads of Government Affairs, Access and Operations.
Previously, Andrew served as Achaogen’s VP of Marketing for Zemdri, an antibiotic. He built commercial strategy, access and marketing groups and developed and executed marketing & distribution strategy. He was promoted to Vice President of Strategic Planning charged with creating and executing corporate and business development strategy.
Genentech recruited Andrew into new product commercialization after leading the same at Biogen across MS, pain and rare disease. At Genentech he was responsible for commercial strategy across products in MS (Ocrevus), Alzheimer’s and depression. He was then promoted to lead the US launch of bitopertin, a treatment for schizophrenia.
Previously at Merck/Schering-Plough, Andrew he led the US launch for Noxafil, an antifungal. Success in this role resulted in his promotion to International Marketing Director for Saphris, an antipsychotic. He began his career in sales and product management at Sanofi.
Andrew holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in London. He earned a First Class Honors Bachelor of Science in Chemistry for Europe (French) from the University of Surrey, UK / Ecole de Chimie, Strasbourg, France.
I have a passion for developing and commercializing solutions that address major unmet needs in healthcare. I operate with a builder mindset leading cross-functionally to enable organizations to develop compelling products while building the infrastructure, teams and capabilities for successful launch, and beyond.
I do this through:
- Transforming Great Science into Successful Brands – Leverage market intelligence to create compelling value propositions which address customer needs and market challenges.
- Orchestrating Commercialization and Scaling – Through effective collaboration with cross-functional partners and external stakeholders I develop a clear organizational strategy and go-to market roadmap, and then prioritize execution while remaining agile as customers, competitors and markets respond and develop.
- Building and Empowering High-Performing Teams – I thrive in hiring, developing, coaching, and empowering people. I ensure teams are properly resourced and supported, provide them with opportunities to stretch and excel, and remove the roadblocks to their success.
Having worked extensively in the mental health space I have seen the challenges it represents to individuals and society in both living with illness and delivering effective care. Scaling the delivery of Adaptive Therapy through technology would be a significant leap forward for individuals and society. Moreover, using this technology to identify markers of potential disease could enable us to identify treatments that maintain a healthy state and prevent disease occurrence. This goal of disease prevention and maintenance of health is my overriding “Why”. I would love to see a future where we spend as much, if not more, on health maintenance than on interventions to address disease.

Dr. Susan Shapcott, Research Director

Dr. Joel Peddle, Brand Ambassador, Meta-Brain Golf
Sue is a quantitative researcher with a PhD in Education. Her research interests extend to how people learn, and their motivations. For example, why do people engage in specific behaviors and activities? What explains behavior as consumers? What environmental factors influence people’s motivation? And what underlying belief systems optimize people’s motivation and performance?
Sue enjoys staying up to date with current academic motivational research and research design methods. Her strength lies in designing studies that specifically answer stakeholders’ research questions.
This requires recruiting suitable samples of participants and collecting data with valid and reliable measures. She conducts thorough data cleaning and analysis to uncover relevant trends in the data.
Sue reports the research findings back to project managers and stakeholders in an understandable way.
Although Sue works mostly in the sports industry, she is interested in any research involving human behavior and motivation.
Sue is originally from England. She now lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she can be found on a golf course, or nerding out to SPSS.
Meta-Brain technology has the potential to help people change thought patterns that negatively affect their behavior and wellbeing. Trying to improve one’s golf game, work culture, or personal relationships is a worthy endeavor – there is always a challenge we need help with.
I am excited to assist Meta-Brain bring its products to market and demonstrate, quantitatively, the positive impact the technology can have on its users.
Joel Peddle is an educator with a Doctorate earned from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His passion for learning and over 30 years of teaching provided Joel the perfect segue to extend his career into the game of golf. Beginning as a volunteer First Tee Golf Instructor, Joel has conducted thousands of hours of instruction on the mechanics of the golf swing while empowering children and adults to find self-confidence, community, and positivity through the game. Joel’s ability to integrate the game of golf with a deepening understanding of one’s inner self has made him a highly sought-after golf instructor for juniors and adult golfers within his community.
As a former collegiate baseball player, Joel understands and recognizes the importance of disciplined skill development and goal setting and has integrated each of these areas into his golf instructional platform. When Joel is not on the golf course instructing, he is diving into research on the mental performance of golf, joining a long list of professionals equipping themselves in mental mastery. His desire is to learn and equip golf students of any age with pathways to improve self-confidence and enhanced focused on the golf course. His teaching expertise, proficiency of play, and relevant connections with golfers and their struggles contributes to Meta-Brain Golf™ product planning, testing, and advocacy.
I ask myself WHY not? Why not create opportunities to engage individuals young and old in a lifetime sport such as golf? Why not become the best you can be, whether it be a TOUR pro making the cut in a pro debut, a low handicapper winning a club championship, or a 6th grader winning the National Spelling Bee? Striving to be my best has shaped my teaching practices and continual pursuit of becoming a more informative golf instructor.
Golf is a vehicle for experiencing exciting adventures, but it also can take a golfer to dark places such as self-doubt and distrust in one’s abilities. I’ve learned that what we believe about ourselves directly correlates to how we perform intellectually, socially, and physically. “Conversations” within the human brain inform what we think we are capable of and what we are not. Those conversations have occurred more often as a golf player but they have also surfaced during my instruction and in some cases my everyday life. Meta-Brain technology provides a pathway to discover one’s true inner self and enabling re-programming of the unconscious so that mental fitness improves and unleashes better motor performance.
Meta-Brain Labs Ethics Council

Tom Hunden, MBA, Chief Ethics Council Officer

Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, MD, MBA, Ethics Council Member

Laura Miller, MPhil, Humanistic Philosophy Adviser
Tom was first introduced to Alex and the Adaptive Therapy concept some thirty years ago as a skeptical, perhaps even disgruntled and jaded, teenager. His mother had become an enthusiast, so eventually Tom was willing to suspend his disbelief and give it a try (just as an experiment of course). That meeting has resulted in an enduring passion for the methodology as well as an enthusiasm for the study of human consciousness, problem-solving, and well-being.
Today, aside from Alex herself, Tom has the most extensive experience both utilizing and practicing Adaptive Therapy. Accordingly he has garnered a thorough understanding of its nuances, application, and potential outcomes. Given his familiarity with the modality, Tom offers a particularly well considered perspective in regards to potential future applications of the concept as well as the possible implications of those potential applications.
In 2005, Tom learned a “transcendental” form of meditation which he introduced to Alex in 2021. The technique, which was derived from certain traditional Indian philosophical perspectives, has long been a fascination of Tom’s and has now taken the form of a research project supported by intellectual contributions from professors at Columbia and Princeton University. Tom is of the opinion that the ideological orientation of the transcendental practice is largely congruent with that of Adaptive Therapy, and the two techniques may prove to be synergistic.
Tom holds an MBA from the University of Washington. He contributed to the development of the strategic plan for the expansion of the DevCo Residential Group and now oversees aspects of its ongoing implementation. When Tom first joined the organization it had built a half dozen LIHTC apartment communities in the Puget Sound totaling a couple hundred units. As of today the enterprise has developed, owns, and manages over 10,000 affordable and market-rate apartment units throughout the United States and is the largest provider of affordable housing in Washington State.
Human beings are always engaged in the pursuit of greater happiness. In every case, no matter what we are thinking or doing, be it something seemingly tremendously significant or something seemingly mundane, we do it with the intention of establishing a greater degree of fulfillment. Irrespective of how we might label a given behavior, call it altruistic or selfish, loving or hateful, joyful or miserable, constructive or destructive, forced or free, noble or petty, dutiful or deviant, the fact remains: whatever we’ve done, and whatever we do next, will undoubtedly demonstrate our ongoing thirst for lasting happiness. All of human history has been, and continues to be, a showcase for this.
And yet, despite this enduring pursuit of happiness, very few have managed to identify patterns which consistently lead us towards greater fulfilment. Most of us think of ourselves as far too busy doing things to actually slow down and ask ourselves why we are doing those things (much less whether those things are actually producing the results we want). What we strive to achieve or obtain in our active lives seems to offer at least some temporary degree of satisfaction, but inevitably that sense of satisfaction with having achieved or obtained that thing gradually dissipates, and our attention yet again shifts towards the next presumed source of fulfillment. We see no alternative but to continue indulging in this cycle, yet at the same time we have a vague sense that doing so is a kind of madness. On some level each of us knows that while it may be wonderful to achieve and accomplish things outwardly, it is in fact our inner state of being, our inner state of consciousness, our inner state of mind that determines our overall level of satisfaction. But most of us avoid recalling that fact because we have no idea what to do with that information. How can we improve anything about our own state of mind when, paradoxically, we are intrinsically dependent on our own state of mind to do so?
Adaptive Therapy knows how. Our brains contain all the information we need to solve our problems. All the “data” we need to consistently, progressively improve our state of wellbeing is available, but it would be a drastic understatement to say our brains are highly complex, and the information it retains is highly compartmentalized. Accordingly, we need to get those parts of our brain which know the solutions to our problems communicating with those parts of our brain which hold fast to problem-creating (and re-creating) psychological beliefs. Instances of dissonance between the various components of our psyches is perhaps the primary cause of all our various forms of suffering. Adaptive Therapy facilitates the process of allowing the mind to harmonize itself. I know of no other approach which does so in such a deliberate, direct, personalized, or empowering fashion. The process not only gets to the bottom of the issue, but resolves the issue by removing the cause of the problem and replacing it with the solution. Now, with the Meta-Brain Chatbot, the technique is available to everyone, and the possibilities have become unlimited. That’s why I am involved.
Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, MD, EMBA is a highly qualified and experienced professional with expertise in bioethics, digital ethics, healthcare policy, and management. Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes holds bioethics certifications from prestigious institutions such as Harvard University and the National Institute of Health, and is an Advisory Partner at Virtue Consultants, an international ethics consultancy firm. She is an Affiliate Faculty Member at the UM Miller School of Medicine’s Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, leading the World Metaverse Council’s Ethics Working Group, and serves as an expert advisor on digital ethics for the European Union’s Blockchain Observatory and Forum.
Previously, Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes served as Chief Ethics Officer for the Government Blockchain Association, Chief Quality and Safety Officer at UHealth, and at MEDNAX, a National Medical Group. During her academic tenure at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, she served on the Pediatric Ethics Committee, the UMMG Faculty Council, and UM Faculty Senate. Additionally, while serving as President of Detect Genomix, a precision medicine company, she led several national maternal, pediatric, and neonatal ethics initiatives.
Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes is a passionate digital ethics advocate and co-authored a book on Applied Digital Ethics. She is a member of several professional organizations, including The College of Healthcare Executives, the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, and the Government Blockchain Association.
Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes holds Diplomate status from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and The American Psychiatric Association. She completed her medical residency and fellowship at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and earned her Executive Masters in Business Administration with a focus on healthcare policy and management at the University of Miami’s Herbert Business School. She earned additional executive education certifications from MIT, Harvard and Stanford Universities.
With her extensive background in healthcare policy, management, and bioethics, Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Meta-Brain Lab’s Ethics Council. As an international deep tech executive, as well as her experience in designing and deploying proactive digital ethics programs for multinational companies make her well-suited to advise on ethical deployment of Meta-Brain Lab’s product portfolio.
I am writing to express my ongoing keen interest and excitement in joining the Ethics Council of MetaBrainLabs.
As a clinical and digital ethicist, digital strategist, and futurist, with a passion for building innovative ecosystems that leverage frontier technologies, MetaBrainLabs’ vision resonates deeply with me.
I am impressed by the company’s focus and the innovative product portfolio across multiple lines of business. My clinical research and expertise in neuroimaging, extensive experience with clinical and behavioral psychiatry, as well as a PI and past Director of Clinical Trials at University of Miami, my leadership roles across multiple domains in the healthcare arena ( academia, healthplan, publicly traded company, startups), my dual board certifications, my bioethics and ethics certifications from NIH and Harvard are greatly aligned with the company’s mission, and could prove to be valuable assets in accelerating the company’s mission.
My 20+ years commitment and passion for clinical ethics, as well as my expertise and experience with digital ethics in deployment of frontier technologies have inspired me to publish a book on applied ethics, as well as write several ethics chapters or articles, and to become engaged as an advisor or consultant for several multinational organizations that currently deploy emerging technologies in highly regulated industries.
It will be a privilege to contribute to the company’s success and collaborate with all other distinguished Ethics Council members. I am looking forward to learning more about the company and the responsibilities and expectations of the Ethics Council at Meta-Brain Labs.
Laura Miller is a highly qualified applied ethicist, experienced tech-ethics, marginalization, vulnerable populations, gender, and policy. She earned her MA in Philosophy with an emphasis on applied ethics, from the University of Missouri – St. Louis (USML), an R1 institution. Laura also secured certifications in diversity, equity and inclusion, and gender studies. The university awarded her the prestigious Nanora Sweet Research Fellowship in Gender Studies to continue her work on adaptive preferences and choices of marginalized and vulnerable people.
Laura is an established and effective problem solver who served on the Hunger Task Force Advisory Board and the Student Affairs Advisory Board as the board ethicist at the UMSL. She founded the Mosaic Community Center to benefit those who were at-risk for hunger and becoming houseless. Her documentary photography, focusing on educational challenges of the poor, was chosen for the New York Times’ Lens time capsule project entitled “Picturing: 7 Billion”. She was also recognized for her humanitarian efforts by the Knights of Columbus, a prominent national organization.
Professionally, Laura’s work has focused on the international influence of technology and marginalized persons. She has designed curriculum for the Global Environmental Justice Documentaries Project (GEJDP) focusing on the struggles of indigenous people and the rights of women in Brazil. As a tech ethicist, she is also centered on international policies that she creates and must follow. She holds advisory affiliations with the Ethics Task Force for The Open Voice Network (The Linux Foundation) and is listed in the NASA Astrophysics database of IDEA practitioners. Laura maintains active memberships with the ACLU of Missouri, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Southern Poverty Law Center.
Currently, Laura is the Director of Integrity and Technology at Shadowing AI (an international startup tech firm focusing on DEIA and education), producing and creating choices and policies to ensure safe and ethical innovation. She continues to facilitate applied ethics seminars at private and public institutions, with campuses around the world. Laura is an in-demand speaker accepting invitations to speak on wide technological ethics issues to Women Leaders in Data and AI, Texas A&M, and independent public broadcasts.
Happiness comes at a price because it involves risks. And those risks can often lead to stress long before we find happiness. That stress we carry with us into everything we do and the choices we make. We alter futures of others far beyond our own and we carry with us the memories of those who harmed us too. But what if that didn’t have to be the case? What if we could find a way to find the happiness we seek and put the pain behind us. And a way to be honest about that pain and its origins. Where help is needed the most is our internal world that holds the stress from our individual and collective pasts.
My people-first approach to ethics ran me headfirst into tech/AI ethics because only technology can reach people so quickly and with such impact. Only technology can bring others from around the world together when they live apart. So much of our world has changed from the advent of technology, the internet, and our online world. It seems right that we began to use technology for the deeply personal work of bettering ourselves and our world. To see ourselves, as our true selves, and to see accurately the many versions of ourselves that we have created to navigate our world.
In my years of watching suffering and struggles of the communities and societies around me I have never been more dedicated to the good that technology has to offer to us. It is always a joy to find people so devoted to helping others that they innovate their industry and others with their knowledge. I look forward to my work on the Meta-Brain Labs’ Ethics Panel.

Robin Ann Yurk, MD, MPH, Ethics Council Member

David Clark-Joseph, JD, MBA, Ethics Council Member

Link (aka Chris Duarte), MS, Ethics Council Member
Robin Ann Yurk, MD, MPH is a Physician | Senior Executive with 30+ years of Healthcare experience for Academic & Community Hospitals, Private Research Organization and Private companies for profit and nonprofit. She has contributed to healthcare entrepreneur leadership as an entrepreneur CEO for MDyurk | DecisionShare, LLC with other C-suite team member roles, and as a Senior Medical Advisor for Wallcott Holdings, LLC a domestic and global healthcare infrastructure economic strategy. She has 15 years of health system and front line physician experience from clinical practice with the HRSA BPHC Medical Center Foundations as a physician specialist. In addition, her medical training includes completion of a General Internal Medicine Fellowship from Johns Hopkins Medicine, a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a doctor of medicine from Creighton University School of Medicine and a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Robin Ann Yurk’s leadership traits have evolved from a foundation with catholic values, a traditional career path in medicine as a physician, community involvement and private business economic entrepreneur networks. Her experiences represent diversity in geographic networks and populations which make her a valuable contribution to a team for her local, regional, national, and global perspective. She obtained a leadership certification from Intermountain Healthcare Advanced Training Program for healthcare delivery improvement with additional training as a Physician Care Management Consultant for Permanente Medicine.
Her healthcare research industry expertise includes business research innovations in health informatics digital health, developmental stage physician organization leadership in the areas of executive, administrative, clinical, education, life sciences and research and global economic networks. She is a developer and author of business reports, presentations, funding reports, curriculums, and peer review articles for applications in health services research-health informatics, clinical tools, and education.
Her values driving decision making include diplomacy, optimism, people, and communication, for problem solving using research and data science tools. She has clinical and research experience with ethics frameworks in the areas of values, principles, standards for measurement science, and the common limitations to data in the industry specialties of Healthcare-Internal Medicine and Medicine Pediatrics, and other research methods. Her local, regional, National and Global experiences provide additional insight to the right solutions for complex problems.
My career path began as a doctor. I participated in basic science animal memory research through surgical ablation of the memory pathway with pre-post testing for visual and auditory recognition and chemical stimulation for understanding the role of the autonomic nervous system with pre-post testing of the HTN response. My career path responsibilities required multi-disciplinary liberal arts training, clinical expertise, data science methods and applications, and health service research training.
Medical informatics curiosity began with clinical decision support and care process improvement infrastructure as a user/trainee in my clinical training and career positions at UNC Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins Medicine. The technology was introduced in the resident clinic with clinical decision alerts for primary care/screening guidelines at the point of care. These CDS tools promoted preventive care screening and/or reduction of unnecessary admissions and prevention of adverse outcomes. My work also required working with consumers and leaders with different levels of training and methods on projects where there was a need to build new best practice standards. Palliative care program tool development influenced the culture of clinical care management programs care plans, navigation of Information technology and application of ethical values, principles, and decision making through advance care planning.
The experience of organizational change, different leadership structures, board culture, and executive management roles at a time of the hybrid EHR required adaptation to new solutions. Early computer experience shaped my attitude, learning approach and motivation to understand new technology, risk taking and research ethical values, frameworks, principles and evidence. Mentorship through education during my career followed in the area of data science information innovation, informatics and the introduction of many diverse ecosystems with integration of industry disciplines.
I support the vision and mission of the Meta-Brain technology and research as it represents the integration of the fields of medicine, neurology/neuroscience, psychology, data science, and bio-informatics. The future of technology and information science for healthcare is at the point of care and for provider and consumer facing devices requiring development of solutions for consumers, providers in teams, system processes and tools for self-directed education, research and service.
David Clark-Joseph is Vice President of Investments at Pixelynx, a Consumer AI company building interactive music collectibles. He works closely with musicians around authentic and authorized uses of their assets in AI training, as well as the implications of AI generative outputs.
David has extensive history as board member and advisor including service at the Cultural Interpretation Services for Our Communities (CISOC), Distributive, The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and numerous technology and clean tech startups. He has deep expertise in web3, cryptocurrency, deal negotiations, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. David served as VP of Strategic Investments at Liberty Gaming, served as CFO & VP of Corporate Development at Distributive, Corporate Development & NFTs at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, Mergers & Acquisitions at Mitel Networks, and held strategy and investment leadership positions at Bild Alternative Investments, and American Fiber. David started his career in finance and strategy at NCR Corporation. He holds an MBA from The Ohio State University and a JD from Florida State University College of Law.
At Pixelynx, We’re actively developing a series of consumer AI audio experiences (think virtual pets that generate music based on artist-authorized training sets). We are also working on an AI Ethics panel with a focus on the creator / media consumer perspective. Consequently, I eager to hear diverse AI ethics perspectives and contribute from my lens.
I am an ethics enthusiast and explorer but not a professional, having taken variety of ethics courses throughout law school and my liberal arts education, and more recently over the past 6-7 years have been thinking carefully about the implications of the rise of ML and AI from a privacy, labor economics, IP, and sociological perspective. I bring a perspective that has touched the customer and business side of these topics for ~5 years and a longer history of consideration.
Link, formally known as Chris Duarte, is the “missing link” between people, culture and technology. As a futurist and global advocate for invisible people, Link’s mission is to inspire the world to be more inclusive of everyone. He is the Founder of Linking Dreams Global, a firm that provides human-centered program design, strategy consulting, training, and cultural transformation expertise.
As a U.S. Army Veteran, Link holds 2 Bachelors and a Master’s degree in Sociology, Criminology, Law, and a Master’s Certificate in Business Analytics (HBAP) from Harvard Business School. For more than 20 years, Link has created programs and solutions for organizations in rural communities to reach their underserved populations and reduce disparities among disadvantaged people. In his tenure, Link has created more than 250 programs, has trained more than 1500 audiences, and has raised millions for programs and initiatives that create positive impact around the world.
Link is an Architectural ecosystem designer and systems thinker who commits his time to helping organizations and enterprises optimize resources and create a system of belonging for everyone they serve and employ. Today, Link continues to be a change agent and thought leader in the arena of culture and digital transformation in Future of Work and Human Services industries. As an ethics advisor, Link seeks to help humanity understand and adapt to the radical changes in digital innovation; primarily in rural communities because these are the places that suffer the greatest disparities.
His primary focus is to ensure that the use of Artificial Intelligence and data collection/analytics is conducted fairly, ethically and is inclusive of all people as we embark on the future use of technologies to help all of humanity.
I am passionate about making the invisible, visible- to ensure that all people have access to economic stability, fulfillment, inclusive resources, and to feel like they belong. This passion stems from my own personal identity of feeling invisible as a transgender man. My identity is a cataclysmic, unchangeable, unignorable, factor that influences my daily life; both positively and negatively. I came out in my 20’s and was met with several horrible circumstances that would set the trajectory of my personal life and professional career into motion.
Long story short, my daughter was taken away from me because of my identity, I fought back, went to college, got a law degree, fought my case, and won. While experiencing my own challenges to find help and support, other LGBTQ+ people looked to me to help them too. These experiences empowered me to create programs that serve underrepresented identities. This means getting creative with data; if there isn’t a box to check on the form, identity doesn’t exist- if it doesn’t exist, then funding for a program can’t be obtained to serve the population that represents that identity. Essentially, if we don’t exist in data, we don’t exist and won’t be served.
For the past 5 years, I have seen first-hand, the magic that digital innovation can make when it comes to making invisible identities visible. Now with my experience working in executive settings, I have witnessed the ways that Artificial Intelligence can connect the right kinds of data and support underrepresented people. Unfortunately, Organizational leaders are using the power of machines to exclude identities too. As it pertains to ethics and bias, the pendulum has swung the other direction and are replicating old discriminatory practices but are creating new forms of disadvantaged groups. There needs to be parameters set in place that reduce the dichotomy that bias can potentially create. I feel compelled to provide ethical insight because I want to bring balance and fairness to these brilliant innovations so that I may help invisible people everywhere be included.