Cody Gibbons is a professional pioneer, he is experienced in navigating burgeoning industries spanning the fields biochemistry, blockchain, and consciousness research. He demonstrated leadership early on, achieving national and international accolades in academic competitions during his school years. His career began in high school, where he mastered Microsoft Excel, delved into Bitcoin, and entered the tech industry through cyber security consulting.

In college, Cody entered the legal medical cannabis industry, enhancing his expertise in plant biochemistry while consulting on Bitcoin and blockchain. His career advanced as he founded several companies, developed medical products at Kanabo, and created plant-based supplements at Kio Labs. In 2020, he co-founded Undercurrent, a cybersecurity firm. His latest projects focus on designing events to collect data on psychoactive substances, contributing to his extensive work in plant and brain biochemistry, psychopharmacology, and sustainable technology development.

Nick Synodis is a strategist, product innovator, entrepreneur, and business leader with experience ranging across entertainment, medical device, education, and blockchain and crypto industries. With formal undergraduate and graduate studies in mathematics, probability, and statistical engineering under his belt, he has spent a large portion of his career focused on designing structured experiments to optimize business systems, facilitating continuous improvement, and leading innovation management.

His career started during his time as a Flinn Scholar at Arizona State University, where he was recognized as one of “35 Entrepreneurs Under 35” for his first business venture, an educational software and test preparation materials business. This was an early signal of his penchant for designing systems and bringing unconventional ideas to life. Later, during his tenure as a Innovation Program Manager, he designed and implemented a process for managing strategic portfolio decisions, platform and product roadmaps, and new product development for an industry-leading medical device company with multiple billion dollars in yearly revenue. After this, he transitioned to work in the blockchain industry, combining his love of entertainment with his love of emerging technologies, hosting high-impact parties for crypto communities, facilitating meaningful partnership deals in gaming, music, art, and beyond, building up a global community, and introducing novel experiences that bridge the digital and physical. Nick is deeply passionate about human-centered experiences and has a characteristically unfiltered, authentic approach to getting important work done and having fun while doing so.

Leo is a neuroscientist, theorist, and artist with expertise in multimodal neuroimaging and neuromodulation, multivariate analysis, experimental design, experience design, long exposure photography, and psychedelic punk. His work focuses on rigorously modeling, studying and scaling constructs important for human flourishing and consciousness, including multiscale accounts of trust, neurobiological models of human and non-human empathy, and recently, the neurocomputational mechanisms underlying transformative, non-ordinary experience.

He received his B.S. in Psychology with a Philosophy minor from Duke University in 2007, and completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at UCLA in 2015, under the mentorship of Marco Iacoboni. He has collaborated with some of the foremost philosophers and neuroscientists in the world, including Owen Flanagan, Dale Purves, Paul Thompson, Antonio Damasio, and Leonard Schilbach, and has received funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, and National Institute of Mental Health. His work has been published in Nature, Science Robotics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. He currently serves as a senior scientist at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, where he is Primary Investigator on the “Emulating Entheogens to Enhance Empathy (E4)” Project, as well as Co-PI on a newly inaugurated research program on Bio-inspired AI Alignment.