James is the founder of Science House, an organization dedicated to supporting science, which also makes investments in high tech companies. James is a parallel entrepreneur and a named inventor on more than 425 issued patents. Some of those patents support his latest entrepreneurial venture, HealthPrize. James is also a co-founder of HandHold Adaptive, a company dedicated to bringing 21st century technologies to the disabled community. He is a trustee of the Math Museum, an organization focused on creating the nation's first museum exclusively for math. James is a frequent speaker at conferences and has appeared on CNN and in Forbes magazine. PsychologyToday's profile of James called him the "Father of Invention." James is a member of New York Angels, the city's largest angel investment group, and the New York Academy of Sciences Life Sciences Angel Network (LSAN).
Prior to starting Science House, James was head of Inventing at Walker Digital where he helped incubate a number of businesses over a 15 year period, including Priceline.com and RetailDNA. Before joining Walker Digital, James was a management consultant with Deloitte & Touche and a Financial Analyst for the Tropicana Casino. He received a B.S. and MBA degree from Cornell University.
Rita's lifelong passion for science started in childhood when she first learned about quarks. In 2006, she founded Dancing Ink Productions, a company with global clients focused on a new culture and economy. With collaborator Joshua Fouts, she most recently co-directed IMAGINATION: Creating the Future of Education and Work, an interactive project for educators focused on science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.
She's currently a Senior Fellow for Social Networking and Immersive Technologies at the Center of the Study of the Presidency and Congress in Washington, DC, and recently served as Innovator-in-Residence at IBM Analytics Virtual Center. Her art explores the creation of meaningful common space. She currently serves as Futurist at NASA Langley's think tank, the National Institute of Aerospace.
Joshua Fouts is a technologist, futurist, gamer and entrepreneur who has worked at the forefront of exploring and chronicling the evolving use of emergent science and technology for culture, journalism, public policy, academia and the private sector. Raised by behavioral research scientists, Fouts has spent his life immersed in the sciences. As a teenager he collected chimpanzee sign language data at his parents’ primate research lab, which led to a lifelong passion for anthropology and the science of culture.
Since 2007 he has been collaborating with Rita J. King the founder of Dancing Ink Productions on a groundbreaking series of projects that explore the development of a new global culture and economy. Their 2011 project, “IMAGINATION: Creating the Future of Education & Work,” explored the intersection between K-12 science education, technology evolution and 21st Century workforce preparedness.
Joshua co-founded and directed two think-tanks at the University of Southern California, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, the first foreign policy think-tank dedicated to exploring public diplomacy; and the Online Journalism & Communication Center which published the Online Journalism Review, the first digital publication of its kind. In 2005, he was the first person to propose and direct a project illuminating how virtual worlds could be used for cultural relations. He began his career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the US Department of State.
He is a senior fellow for Digital Media and Public Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress and a Next Generation Fellow at The American Assembly. He speaks Brazilian Portuguese.
Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. While at USC, he performed original research in the Interaction Lab (part of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems) and the Laboratory for Molecular Robotics (now part of the Nanotechnology Research Laboratory). He is published in peer-reviewed journals and in the proceedings of international conferences. His first book is scheduled for publication in 2010.
Gabi is the project coordinator for the Science House Foundation and manages operations and technology for the Foundation's global educational programs. Prior to Science House, Gabi has worked in financial mathematics and has carried out original research in chemistry. Gabi has a B.S. (Hons) from the University of Sydney.
Dalibor is a Sydney-based entrepreneur working on renewable energy and workplace automation. He has experience in telecommunications, IT, and banking, and has conducted original research on viscoelastic relaxation, computational chemistry and ion conduction. He has also worked on quantum computers, protein crystallography, and nanomaterial synthesis. Dalibor has a B.S. (Hons I) (Advanced) from the University of Sydney and was its first graduate with a major in Nanoscience, also majoring in Biochemistry.
Gilda runs her own business as a professional speaker and communication skills coach, and has worked with clients throughout the United States and in Mexico, China and India. Gilda holds a master’s degree in history from Fordham University and has also worked as an adjunct professor. Gilda facilitates communication and presentation skills workshops at Science House to help scientists and academics communicate more effectively to a business audience, and she also consults on Human Resource issues. You can view Gilda's articles on communication skills at www.gildabonanno.com
Alejandro began producing and directing television programs at the age of seventeen and worked for five years for a national television channel. During this time he also did freelance work in graphic design, creating advertising campaigns for businesses. He later ran a small agency which produced and directed corporate videos and TV commercials.
Alejandro has received awards at both the national and international level, including first place in the Anchorage International Film Festival for his film "Look Again". Alejandro lives and works in New York City.