Employees

Robert A. Freitas Jr. holds a 1974 Bachelor’s degree majoring in both physics and psychology from Harvey Mudd College, and a 1978 Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Santa Clara University. He [...]

Randal A. Koene, Ph.D., is a Dutch neuroscientist and neuroengineer, and co-founder of carboncopies.org, the outreach and roadmapping organization for advancing Substrate-Independent Minds (SIM). [...]

Ben Goertzel is Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC, which is a privately held software company, and bioinformatics company [...]

Sue Blackmore is an internationally recognized psychologist and writer researching consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. She [...]

Keith Wiley has experience in several domains of computer science, including artificial life, evolutionary algorithms, image-processing, optimized search, topology, distributed processing, and [...]

Alan S. Ziegler, J.D. is BPF’s legal counsel. Former president, Yale Law School Alumni Association of NJ and former director, Converging Technologies Bar Association. His current focus is [...]

Jayar La Fontaine is a foresight strategist with a leading North American innovation consultancy, where he helps organizations to develop their capacity for future thinking so that they can [...]

Jacob DiMare is a digital strategist and marketing technologist. In addition to serving alongside the team at the Brain Preservation Foundation, he is currently leading strategy engagements and [...]

John Smart, Vice President and Co-Founder of the Brain Preservation Foundation, is a futurist, evolutionary developmental systems theorist and professor of technology foresight, specializing in [...]

Kenneth Hayworth, President and Co-Founder of the Brain Preservation Foundation, is currently a Senior Scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus (JFRC) in [...]