About Us

David Jiang is an experienced investor and entrepreneur. David has built software and hardware companies in Silicon Valley and seen startups from angel to sale cycle. David has assisted the spinoff of a Nasdaq company and its list on the exchange. David was previously CEO and Board Member at PineBridge Investments (AIG Investments), where he led the turn-around post global financial crisis. He was also Global Head of Index and ETF Investing at BNY Mellon and BNY Mellon Investment Asia Pacific CEO. David has sat on boards in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, and US.  

Mark Barger Elliott is an idea architect whose lifelong fascination with human emotion began during a psychology class at Cornell University. He developed the initial concept of Emotional Architecture—a framework exploring how emotions shape decision-making, identity, and human behavior.

He is the author of two forthcoming books: Life Equations: Formulas for a Life that Adds Up and Write Human: A Field Guide for Creators in the Age of AI and was the creator of the daily blog On Emotions, which attracted thousands of monthly readers.

Mark is perpetual student and holds a Doctorate from San Francisco Theological Seminary and a Masters from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, illuminating the lives of Nashville songwriters and the Lost Boys of Sudan.

Gurpreet Singh holds a Master’s in A.I. and an M.B.A in Information Management & Business Analytics. The past four years he has specialized in AI pre-training and fine-tuning LLMs, applying RLHF and RAG to build and deploy models. He has also contributed to the AI community as a judge at the IEEE project showcase at Northwestern University. In his previous energy tech company that he co-founded, Gurpreet played a key role in developing proprietary battery technology, filed two patents, raised $.5 million in pre-seed funding and collaborated with leading  universities and labs.