ABOUT US

Strategic Advisory Council

Matthias Bowman
Matthias Bowman
Founder RCT Logic, LLC

Mr. Bowman founded RCT Logic, LLC in 2008. Previously, he was Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch and Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch Ventures. Matt is a founder of Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust, and has previously served on the board of directors of MedAvante, Definity Health, Active Health Management, Borg-Warner Automotive, Del Monte Foods, Supermarkets General Corporation, Teleport Communications Group, and U.S. Foodservice.

Mr. Bowman manages the Bowman Family Foundation. He is also a member of the board of directors of the International Mental Health Research Organization and the Sylvan C. Herman Foundation, and is a member of two advisory committees of Massachusetts General Hospital and the board of advisors of ACTTION (a public/private partnership founded by the Food and Drug Administration that is focused on improving the development of analgesic therapies). He was formerly a trustee, member of the executive committee, and chairman of the finance committee of the American Cancer Society Foundation, and a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of NARSAD.

Mr. Bowman attended Williams College, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa in 1969 and graduated summa cum laude in 1970. In 1972 he graduated from the Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. In recent years he has studied molecular biology, neuroscience, and biostatistics.

Sean Hill, PhD
Sean Hill, PhD
Executive Director of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility

Sean Hill was recruited in 2006 by IBM to serve as the Project Manager for Computational Neuroscience in the Blue Brain Project, responsible for co-leading a team of 35 researchers dedicated to constructing a data-driven large-scale model of brain circuitry. In this capacity, he coordinated efforts to integrate gene expression, morphology, and electrophysiology data into modeling, simulation, visualization, and analysis workflows on a variety of high-performance computing platforms. He has also supervised and led research efforts exploring the principles underlying the structure and dynamics of neocortical microcircuitry. Since January 2011, Sean has served as the Executive Director of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sean received his BA in computational neuroscience from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. After a period spent working in the biotechnology industry, where he supervised a team of programmers working on distributed databases, he returned to academia and completed a PhD in computational neuroscience at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. There he investigated the computational role of the auditory thalamocortical circuitry in the rat, research that involved multi-unit recordings and large-scale neuronal simulations. Sean held postdoctoral positions at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. During this time he developed the first large-scale model of the cat visual thalamocortical system, which replicates neural activity during wakefulness and sleep.

Steve Hyman
Steve Hyman
Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Steven E. Hyman is Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, and Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. From 2001 to 2011, he served as Provost of Harvard University, the university's chief academic officer. As Provost he had a special focus on development of collaborative initiatives, especially in the sciences, spanning multiple disciplines and institutions. From 1996 to 2001, he served as director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, where he emphasized investment in neuroscience and emerging genetic technologies, and initiated a series of large clinical trials to inform practice. Prior to his government service he was the first faculty director of Harvard University's interdisciplinary Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative.

Hyman is the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience, President of the International Neuroethics Society, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academies where he serves on the governing council, the Board of Health Science Policy, and chairs the Neuroscience Forum, which brings together industry, government, and academia. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Hyman received his BA summa cum laude from Yale College and an MA from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Mellon fellow, and an MD from Harvard Medical School.

Kristen Rosatti
Kristen Rosatti
Shareholder, Polsinelli Shughart PC

Kristen Rosati is a shareholder at Polsinelli Shughart, PC. Ms. Rosati leads the "Big Data" initiative at the law firm. As hospitals, physicians and other providers migrate to electronic health records, the health care industry is finding ways to harness that wealth of data for important public purposes, such as research, quality improvement, data sharing in clinical integration, public health and drug safety surveillance. Ms. Rosati has deep experience in HIPAA compliance, electronic health records roll-outs, health information exchange, data sharing for research and clinical integration initiatives and ACOs, and clinical research compliance and clinical trials contracting.

Ms. Rosati is the President-Elect of the American Health Lawyers Association, the nation's largest educational organization devoted to legal issues in the health care field with more than 11,000 members. Ms. Rosati also is an advisor to the FDA Sentinel Initiative and serves on the Privacy Panel for the "Mini-Sentinel Coordinating Center" at Harvard Pilgrim. She is on the Brookings Active Surveillance Implementation Council and served on the planning committee for "Legal Issues in Active Medical Product Surveillance."

Ms. Rosati was a member of the Advisory Board for the Arizona State University (ASU) Biomedical Informatics Department and a founding Executive Committee member of the ASU Center for Health Care Innovation and Clinical Trials. She has been an adjunct professor of law and frequent guest lecturer at ASU. Ms. Rosati received her BA, with high honors, and her JD, cum laude, from the University of Michigan.

Curtis Schreiner
Curtis Schreiner

Curt Schreiner is a 3-time Olympian and former member of the US Biathlon National Team. He was introduced to the sport of biathlon at age 12 when he watched the event at the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid. With the help of the Saratoga Biathlon Club, his family went so far as to build a range at their home in the Adirondacks, and Curt had his own venue for training by the time he was 14. He soon became the strongest member of US Junior National Biathlon Team, and gained a berth on the Senior National Team in time to represent the US at the 1988 Olympics. His career as a world-class biathlete continued until 2002. He has won multiple national championships, competed in World Biathlon Championships and World Cup events all over the globe, and was a member of two additional US Olympic biathlon teams (1992 and 1994).

Curt joined the New York Army National Guard (NYARNG) in 1986. He was a member of the Army's World Class Athlete program and National Guard Sports programs, which provided him the opportunity for full-time biathlon training. After his retirement from the sport, he was deployed for a 1-year tour of duty in 2005 as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom III. There, he commanded a Personnel Services Detachment in Tikrit, coming under mortar fire on a daily basis.

Curt was diagnosed with MS in 2007, while he was working full-time with the NYARNG. In May 2010, he retired from the NYARNG at the rank of Major. As a key member of the Orion Bionetworks team, he provides a unique perspective on the pursuit of better disease understanding and new treatments for MS.

Nick Zakrasek
Nick Zakrasek

Nick Zakrasek is Vice President of EverString, a machine learning and artificial intelligence company, as well as an MBA candidate at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is an experienced leader in the business applications of big data and computational modeling. He was the founding program manager for the launch of Orion Bionetworks in 2012. Prior to One Mind for Research, Nick spent six years working in international aerospace operations for Rockwell Collins. He holds a BA in mathematics and East Asian studies from Brown University.