Our founder, Robert E. Mealey, is a respected Director of Data Science at a major cybersecurity risk management and transfer startup and a trusted, valued, early and sustained contributor and leader at a number of other varied enterprises, from other startups to winning electoral campaigns. He has successfully designed and implemented many systems, machine learning and otherwise, that have solved real problems for real people. Many of them run still. He's checked.

He has worked at non-profits, orphanages, unions, and schools, among other very interesting places, and has repeatedly adapted to broadly different roles very successfully and, more than once, in rapid succession. He is a subject matter expert in many areas of machine learning, “AI”, statistical and research methods, organizing and community-building, and entrepreneurship and technology, and he is a well-read but still rank amateur generalist on many other things. His professional and educational backgrounds are unique, and in many ways uniquely suited to this particular challenge. 

He is also the father of two magical children, one of whom has Down syndrome, and a lifelong unhinged and congenital optimist. He expects those to be helpful attributes in this endeavor as well.