John W. DenBoer, Ph.D.

Dr. John DenBoer is a Clinical Neuropsychologist specializing in the assessment and detection of early-stage dementia. He received his internship training at VA Boston Healthcare System (Boston University School of Medicine/Harvard University) and received his postdoctoral training at Barrow Neurological Institute. He has published extensively in the area of Clinical Neuropsychology and has been an expert speaker at many local, national, and international conferences. He is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Medical Officer of SMART Brain Aging, Inc., a company designed to help prevent and intervene in mild cognitive impairment and early-stage dementia.

In the last 3 years he has become a world-renown speaker in the area of early-stage dementia detection and treatment. This has culminated in a Netflix documentary and corresponding book, entitled “This is Dementia?!“.

http://www.johndenboer.com/

Chris Ferraro

Chris is an experienced entrepreneur with many business and technical skills invaluable to startups. He is currently the CEO of Etico, a company he founded in 2008 that offers data analytics solutions to large organizations such as Facebook, McKesson, Scotiabank, Esri, and numerous Government agencies to help them make more informed decisions. Prior to founding Etico, he consulted in BI architecture and software development integrations for organizations across North America. With over 20 years of experience in development, ten of those spent in healthcare-related fields such as pharmaceutical, patient, and pharmacy analytics. Chris’ diverse technical background leading teams, lean software product development, and business acumen will drive current and future iterations of the Brain U Online platform and support the company well as it matures.

Joan Seeling

Joan was born and raised in Waukesha, Wisconsin and graduated with a degree in Elementary Education from the University Of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She taught in Minnesota while also attaining her Master’s Degree in Reading from the University Of Minnesota. During her teaching career she has worked as a reading specialist and taught second, third, fourth, and fifth grade in Wisconsin and Arizona. Currently she volunteers at Cardon Children’s Hospital and leads the volunteer program for SMART Memory Program research. She loves to substitute teach when time allows and enjoys golfing, singing in a choir, gardening, and traveling. Joan’s true love is to help people, and her work with the SMART program gives her great joy because of the impact it has on people’s lives.

Mona Hoffman

Mona Hoffman-Raynor has worked as a Medical Office and Clinic Manager for the last 13 years, with a focus on billing, revenue generation, credentialing and negotiating insurance contracts. Mona is also experienced in start-up practices and organizational management. She is currently the Office/Clinical Manager for SMART Brain Aging.

Ashley Selby

Ashley Selby has recently graduated and this is her first medical position She is excited to be a part of the team. She looks forward to learning the many aspects of psychology and the many dimensions of dementia.

Melissa Barker

Melissa Barker has worked on a wide range of accounting and audit services across the southwest and internationally, with a specialty in the healthcare industry. She is a shareholder, and financial and GAAP accounting guru at High Rock Accounting, where she assists clients with GAAP compliance, financial modeling, financial reporting, and general financial accounting inquiries. She is also the acting CFO for SMART Brain Aging.

Bob Mancini

Bob grew up in Wyoming, served 5 years in the U.S. Army and is a proud alumnus of the University of Missouri-Rolla. He and his wife Sun live with their son and two suspicious cats in Mesa Arizona. He believes in sales from service, the powers of intention and culture and the technology that converts breakdowns into breakthroughs. After more than a decade, leading business development efforts and teams in senior markets and healthcare, Bob employs his connections and leverages his expertise and experience to help the team at Smart Brain Aging to optimize their business development operations, to attract, cultivate and retain the right people and to develop strategies that grow business. He is very pleased and excited to be working with the dynamic people of Smart Brain Aging.

Jeff Brown

He graduated from Arizona State University and taught at Paradise Valley High School. He spent several years in the Financial Services industry with Phoenix Mutual & Conn. General Life insurance companies, including series 6 & 63 licenses.

He spent 20 years in Retail/Commercial Banking in Phoenix, 10 years as the Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for DHR, a local PEO (Professional Employer Organization).

Most recently Jeff has been a Senior caregiver & Placement Advisor for 15+ years specializing with clients that have Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s & COPD. He has worked with Fortune 100 & 500 CEO’s, business owner’s & Professional Athletes.

Tom Swann

Tom Swann is a serial entrepreneur having started several businesses in New Mexico and Arizona. Born and educated in Michigan, he moved to New Mexico in 1978 to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1983, Swann left his position at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to start his first business, Optomec, Inc., which is a very successful additive manufacturing business located in Albuquerque, NM.

For 2-1/2 years, Swann worked for the Maricopa Small Business Development Center (SBDC) stationed in the Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation, as a business analyst helping small technology businesses grow and prosper. He left the SBDC in March 2015 to start Mesa Technology Group LLC, through which he is providing business and engineering consulting services.

Swann holds a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and a MBA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Topics of particular interest to Swann are the 3D printing and additive manufacturing industries, investor pitches and winning government contracts, particularly National Institute of Health Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants.

Swann’s office is in the LaunchPoint Accelerator in the Mesa Center for Higher Education in downtown Mesa, AZ.

Calli Varner

Calli is our online marketing and PR specialist, which includes blogging and managing our social media accounts. She has a passion for writing and is a proud graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Calli is originally from Lake Havasu City and enjoys watching football, doing yoga and spending time with her cat, Lt Dan. She also plays a very active role in two local rescues.

Stephen W. Brown, Ph.D.

Stephen W. Brown is the Emeritus Edward M. Carson Chair and Professor of Marketing with the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He currently is a Distinguished Faculty with the Center for Services Leadership, and also a Strategic Partner with The INSIGHT Group. From its founding in 1985 until May 2011, he served as the CSL’s executive director. He is also a former national president of the American Marketing Association.

Professor Brown has co-authored and co-edited 23 books and over 100 articles. Much of his research and writing focuses on the science of service and the topics of strategic services marketing, service excellence and recovering from service failures. Currently, he’s devoting major research, executive teaching and consulting to the area of service infusion or growing service revenues in product-dominant companies. His latest book published in 2014 is Profiting From Services & Solutions.

Dr. Brown has been identified as one of the ten most frequent contributors to the English-language services marketing literature in the world. He’s been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from the HANKEN School of Economics in Finland and from Karlstad University in Sweden. He is the recipient of the Career Contributions to Services Marketing Award from the American Marketing Association and the Educator of the Year Award from the Association for Service Management International. He serves as a speaker and seminar leader for conferences and business meetings around the world.

Dr. Brown has co-founded three companies, and he serves on the boards of directors of several companies and a non profit organization.

Marty Zwilling

Marty Zwilling‘s passion is nurturing the development of leaders and entrepreneurs by providing first-hand mentoring, advisory board services, funding assistance, and business plan development. He is the Founder and CEO of Startup Professionals, a company that provides products and services to startup founders and small business owners.

He writes a daily blog for entrepreneurs, and dispenses advice on the subjects of leadership and startups to a large online audience of over 940,000 Twitter followers. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, and the Huffington Post. He has also published three books, “Do YOU Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur?” “Attracting an Angel,” and “StartupPro: How to set up and grow a tech business.”
He has a 30-year track record of demonstrated results as an executive in general management, computer software development, product management, and marketing, as well as in leading technical business transformations, conducting due diligence for investors, mentoring new technical executives, and overseeing business development, customer service, and outsourcing both onshore and offshore.

Marty began his career with IBM, holding an array of positions including executive roles in software development and professional services. Prior to launching on his professional path, Marty’s education included the attainment of Bachelor of Science Degrees in Accounting and a Minor in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

A resident of Fountain Hills, Arizona, with his wife Libby, Marty is an active member of the local Angel investment group (Arizona Tech Investors), a Venture Mentor at Arizona State University, and member of the Advisory Boards for several startups in the area.

Steven Chung, MBA

Steven Chung is the co-founder of Senior Living Advisory Group of Scottsdale. A former associate partner for an international general management consulting firm based in NY, Steven also served as a senior executive for a major aerospace corporation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in Business Management. He and his wife Martha have been married for over 27 years with 3 wonderful children.

Rick Munson

Rick Munson is the founder and leader of three companies over a 40-year career resulting in the successful merger and or acquisition of each organization. He has proven leadership skills resulting from growing companies and extensive military experience as an officer and Distinguished Military Graduate from the United States Army.

He Graduated in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, distinguished Military Graduate with honors.

Zach Ferres

Zach Ferres is the CEO of Coplex, a Phoenix and LA based Startup Studio. He’s also a founding Partner at Coplex Ventures, a newly formed venture capital fund and columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Speaker. Runner. Engineer (not the train kind).