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Advisory Board
Our Advisory Board is comprised of internationally renowned researchers, business leaders, policymakers, innovators, and health care professionals. They meet multiple times each year to provide counsel and guidance to the Foundation's Executive Team and work with the Scientific Advisory Board to further the Foundation's overall mission. They also provide strategic advice to the Executive Team throughout the year on specific projects in their area of expertise.
Patrik Schmidle
Patrik Schmidle is the CEO & Co-Founder of CARI Therapeutics; an innovative digital health company that is conducting NSF (National Science Foundation) and NIH (National Institute of Health) funded research to transform the detection, monitoring, and treatment of substance misuse. Over his 20+ year career, Patrik has led teams in diverse environments, including start-ups, mid-sized privately held companies as well as large, publicly traded companies. He is an alumnus of Weber State University (B.A.) and University of San Diego (M.A.).
Massimo Pani
Massimo Pani is a global security, counter-terrorism, and government policing expert. He has held key positions with multiple law enforcement agencies include NATO, EUPOL, and the Italian Arma dei Carabinieri. Massimo’s distinguished career has taken him to unstable geo-political locals like Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. He is an alumnus of Loughborough University (MSc), University of Rome- Tor Vergata (BA MSc), La Sapienza University (LLM), and the Italian police academies in Modena and Rome.
Scott Carl
Scott Carl is an digital business leader helping organizations achieve their strategic goals through digital transformation. He was the Chief Information Officer at Parsons Corporation, a global digital solution provider in the cyber, defense and infrastructure markets. Scott was responsible for the visionary leadership of information technology, security and engineering systems support services. Prior to Parsons, he was an Account Executive at Perot Systems Corporation, a global IT services firm, where he delivered information technology services to achieve customer business objectives. He sits on several information technology focused advisory boards and is an alumnus of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.
Lynn Mattice
Lynn Mattice is a distinguished member of the international security community. He brings decades of enterprise risk, intelligence, and cybersecurity to the table from his experience as Chief Security Officer at Fortune 500 companies like Whirlpool and Northrop Grumman. Lynn is also a Board Member of the International Security Management Association and Senior Fellow at George Washington University – Center of Cyber and Homeland Security. He is an alumnus of George Washington University and California State-Long Beach.
Ambassador Mark Hambley (ret)
Ambassador Mark Hambley (ret) is an American diplomat. During three-decade-long career in the U.S. diplomatic service, Hambley served in fourteen different postings, many of them in Middle Eastern countries, including as U.S. Ambassador in Qatar and, later, in Lebanon and as the U.S. Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt, and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Also, Hambley was posted in Saudi Arabia during the November 1979 Grand Mosque Seizure. Other assignments took him to Vietnam, Yemen, Jordan, Tunisia, and Libya during periods of war, coups, and civil unrest.
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