Through the INDUS SETU Global Foundation, which she helped found, Dr. Tandon participates globally on entrepreneurship, venture capital, healthcare, and gender empowerment. She was a USA delegate for Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hague and Hyderabad under President Trump and was delegate to Turkey and Dubai, under President Obama's leadership.

Dr. Tandon has supported companies, from start-ups to commercialization, in developing products for unmet medical needs. She was Managing Director, Lumira/MDS Capital in Palo Alto with $1.2B USD under management. Dr. Tandon made 12 investments in lifesaving, breakthrough technologies with 11 exits, 9 being acquired by market leaders and 2 companies following the IPO route.

Nandini received PhD in biochemistry, Phi Lambda Upsilon from Duke University, North Carolina. She is Phi Beta Kappa, and has received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, the highest honor conferred on overseas Indians by the Indian President, for her contribution in healthcare and business.

Jay has over 30 years of academic and commercial experience, and expertise in distributed time-critical systems, cognitive computing (e.g., artificial intelligence, computer learning algorithms), service systems, command and control systems, cyberphysical systems, and cybernetics. Some of his notable work includes: Senior Consultant to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (he worked on policy and infrastructure for global Command and Control systems); CTO for two global industrial automation companies, each with annual revenues exceeding $20B; expertise in modeling, simulation, visualization and analytics related to understanding the behavior of large-scale intelligent service systems and platforms for distributed, time-critical software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Jay also has extensive experience in the design, application, and management of high-assurance, real-time distributed control systems for automation in a wide range of continuous, batch and discrete industrial processes. This experience includes hiring, promotion and retention of senior research and development personnel in R&D laboratories located in European, North American and Asia-Pacific regions.

Richard has a remarkably agile intellect and has been highly successful in whatever area he has decided to apply his talents. Harvard College, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa; Stanford Law School, Order of the Coif. Owner, Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson, Los Angeles. Former COO, The Brodia Group. Past trustee and president of the Los Angeles Copyright Society. Richard has developed significant expertise in entertainment law, new media, technology, licensing, businesses development and corporate law. Since MCI's inception, he has played a major role advising and actively supporting the company in all these areas. He sees a role for MCI technology in Legal Ethics education, and to other challenging interpersonal and social issues.

Tom is a successful and highly accomplished senior executive. He has over 30 years of domestic and international leadership experience in contract research, industrial products and consumer products businesses. He is adept with mergers and acquisitions, and redesigning business processes to achieve performance excellence and improving operating margins while driving market share growth. His experience ranges from work with startups (including raising investment capital) to leading multi-location businesses with $750 million in sales. Tom supports the company on a wide range of business matters.

Develops strategic, operational and long-range financial positions of organizations ranging from start-up to $750 million in sales and maintains full P&L responsibility for over $150 million multi-location business as well as smaller VC/PE backed companies. Transforms inefficient and ineffective individuals, departments and groups into cohesive and dedicated teams driven to achieve unprecedented results. Builds internal and external partnerships and leverages those relationships to achieve millions of dollars in sustainable/reoccurring revenue and profitability. Highly skilled in raising investment capital and significant experience doing business in China/Asia. Tom and Fred have worked together for 16 years.

Fred Kron, MD, is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Department of Internal Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, and a Research Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School.

Fred is the Founder and CEO of MCI. He’s also a cancer survivor who understands the importance of caring communication from the patient’s perspective. “Healthcare communication has been my focus since I was a teenager and I saw the distress that hospital staff caused my mother when she was dying of lung cancer. Surviving cancer myself, and personally witnessing as a physician the harms of communication failure helped to sharpen my determination to improve the way caregivers interact with patients, and with one another.” Utilizing an uncommon blend of experiences in medical practice and research, in television screenwriting and in game design, Dr. Kron founded Medical Cyberworlds (MCI) to help caregivers better express empathy and develop trust and rapport with their patients. Since then, aided by some remarkable and dedicated physicians, psychologists, educators technicians and computer scientists, the company has grown into a cognitive computing enterprise focused on utilizing Artificial Intelligence to nurture Emotional Intelligence, to address human suffering, in healthcare and beyond.

We are greatly honored to work with Dr. Scassellati. He is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University, with an additional appointment in the Cognitive Science Program. He recently served as one of 12 members of the governing board of the largest AI professional organization, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Brian’s work is highly interdisciplinary, and focuses chiefly on human-robot interaction, social learning, and the application of artificial intelligence to provide cognitive and social support to people. He has built and deployed dozens of robotic systems that provide training and advice to populations ranging from professionals to infants. These adaptive systems tailor not only the content that they provide – keeping problems that are just at the edge of a student’s capabilities – but also the methods that they use to engage and motivate individuals to continue with the training. He is a strong champion for using AI responsibly to solve our most challenging societal problems, which aligns well with MCI’s philosophy.

Andy Johnson is MCI’s CTO. He has worked professionally in distributed learning technology for the last 17 years, 15 of which were spent serving the U.S. Department of Defense as a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contractor. He helped develop the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM®) and has been involved in every version of SCORM®. He has been the Experience API (xAPI) lead at the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative since version .9 was established. He currently serves as the Specifications and Standards Manager for the ADL where he manages project teams’ efforts in the advancement of technical specifications and standards in the training and education domain. Andy has managed many R&D federal contracts, and he has had responsibility for over $100M in work. Fred Kron and Andy has worked together for about 8 years.

Dr. Watson received her PhD in Instructional Design & Technology, Psychological & Quantitative Foundations from the University of Iowa. Her expertise is on education, training, advanced technologies, and simulation. A former lead on the National Driving Simulator (an $85M project) where she was director of research and co-led development of scenario authoring and human performance measurement. She also has developed expertise in natural language processing, machine learning/deep learning, and human sensing systems to support intelligent, adaptive instruction. Ginger has worked with MCI for 8 years.

Karen Kron has over 21 years of executive experience in NY healthcare advertising, marketing and publishing. A two-time industry award-winner for advertising excellence, Karen is adept at managing large teams, and in client relationship management.

In more recent positions, she has developed expertise in contract management, and procurement, along with proficiency in legal guidelines, laws/regulations, and Request for Proposal/Request for Bid procedures. Karen has worked with MCI since its inception, successfully managing all aspects of NIH grant administration, company budgeting, payroll and government reporting. She collaborates with the Madison-based accounting firm KMA Bodilly (which provides external financial controls for MCI) and with the company's business and IP counsels. Karen recently put another notch in her belt by getting her paralegal certification. She graduated with academic honors and was elected to the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.

Eric has expertise in producing, screenwriting, directing, post-production and new technologies. Developed over 40 years working in motion pictures, television, and new media. Notable past positions include ten years as an executive at The Walt Disney Studios, and an equivalent period as CEO and executive producer for Sparkhill LLC, a prominent Los Angeles production house. Eric has worked with many prominent filmmakers over the years, including Francis Coppola, Nicholas Meyer, Mike Nichols, Oliver Stone, and many others.

As faculty for Chapman University, Eric first served as the Film Division Chair for Dodge College, which position required oversight of approximately 900 graduate and undergraduate students and 82 faculty within 5 disciplines. More recently, Eric co-founded the Chapman University Institute for Creative Realities, and incubator dedicated to testing new and emerging technologies for the purpose of content creation and utilization of technology to enhance storytelling. Eric has worked with MCI for 15 years.

Kelly is an Emmy and Humanitas Prize-winning actor-writer-director (voice, live action). Kelly was a lead actor in Samuel Fuller’s “The Big Red One.” Other featured roles in television and movies include Grease, Zoot Suit, M*A*S*H, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, the Waltons and more. He currently directs for The Walt Disney Studios, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California, School of Theatre where he was honored as the John Houseman Visiting Artist in 2006. Kelly has collaborated with MCI for many years as writer, casting and voice director, and voice actor.

Noah Falstein has been a professional game developer since 1980 with many hit title credits and was an early hire at LucasArts, 3DO, and Dreamworks Interactive. Most recently he was Google's Chief Game Designer. His current work is focused on games for health, specifically neurogaming. He offers design and production consulting for companies and individuals interested in top quality game development and business contacts. Falstein also lectures and conducts seminars on game design and development, for both traditional and serious games. He has chapters published in six different game industry books, and is working on his own book about game design issues.

Noah and Dr. Kron have worked together for about 18 years. He is a shareholder and committed to supporting MCI on challenges related to learner engagement.

Dr. Rosenberg is internationally known expert in facial expression. She is the protégé of Paul Ekman, PhD, senior author of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). She trains and consults on facial measurement using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) with clients worldwide, and has published widely on Erika is also founding faculty at the Compassion Institute, a non-profit devoted to promoting compassion education worldwide. She co-authored the Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) program with Thupten Jinpa and others in 2009 at Stanford University, and was honored to present the program to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Erika took over from Paul Ekman, who worked with MCI from 2008-2012, and she has collaborated with MCI since then.

Erika took over from Paul Ekman, who worked with MCI from 2008-2012, and she has collaborated with MCI since then.

Brad has 24 years of experience as a character/facial rigger with Rhythm and Hues (Life of Pi), Industrial Light and Magic, Laika Studios. He is experienced in a wide range of production environments from small teams to large studio film work and game production. Brad studied the Facial Action Coding System with Dr. Rosenberg, and consequently has expertise in FACS rigging and controls. “Working on how the faces express, what they convey on screen and how the underline anatomy comes into play with these ideas is still the most interesting part of rigging for me.” Brad is a great asset to MCI, where portraying simulated humans with a high degree of behavioral accuracy is extremely important.

Aaron is a Madison, Wisconsin based licensed CPA with over 25 years of experience managing the financial operations of both publicly traded and privately-held companies. For the last 15 years, Aaron has served in senior finance roles for several start-up companies in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and high-tech industries. In those roles he helped secure $211M in equity investment, loans and contracts. Aaron assists MCI with financial modeling and financial projections. We hope to have Aaron take a larger role in investor relations and managing financial planning and analysis to prepare MCI to quickly capitalize on its anticipated success.

Associate Professor, University of Georgia School of Law. As an MD-JD, Fazal has a unique perspective on the opportunities and challenges that face companies using AI in healthcare, related to regulation, data quality and use, bioethics, healthcare quality and safety.

Dr. Grega comes to MCI having recently completed a stint as the Business Development Director for the University of Michigan. Debra's extensive biomedical experience has focused on bringing new technologies to market, from both industry and academia, that address customer needs. In addition to B2B and B2Academia partnerships, she has been responsible for new technology development and customer evaluations. She has been on teams with companies, academic faculty, and with business students, analyzing business plans and refining venture presentations. With her Roche Diagnostics experience managing software development, she has followed the movement to digital healthcare and sees MCI as forging a highly innovative path in digital training.

Ms. Underdue is a SAG-AFTRA award winning actress, writer, poet, producer, voiceover artist, standardized patient educator, and social activist. She is known by critics and friends in acting circles as "the chameleon" of stage and screen for her mastery of changing her voice and look to fit the role. Ms. Underdue is also a published poet who opened for the likes of Maya Angelou to Sonja Sanchez. She advocates for actors and performers by serving on the SAG-AFTRA National Board. Towanda is an advisor to the company on research requiring standardized patient training. She also collaborates with MCI on its implicit bias work and advises on matters of structural racism.