Kokoro Leadership Team
Julian Gresser
CEO
Cofounder, board member, international environmental public interest lawyer, Japan expert, inventor, professional negotiator, and author
Patricia Bader-Johnston
COO
MBA, Directs the Women's Wisdom Initiative, Former board member for IBM Japan, former VP Operations Finance and Resources for Goldman Sachs Japan
William Moulton
CTO
Cofounder, board member, AI technologist, cyber-security expert, learning management systems designer, technology systems architect
Ben Levi
CIO/CFO
Information systems, finance management, alliance integrator, trainer, and systems design
Advisory Board
Fred Young Philips
Senior Advisor
Ph.D., President of TANDO, 2017 winner of the Kondratieff Medal. Dr. Phillips is emeritus editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s international journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change. He led development of management curricula for employees of international and high-tech companies.
Janet C. Salazar
Ambassador
Ambassador to the Kokoro Women's Global Wisdom Initiative. Founder & Managing Partner, AlphaWin Ventures AlphaWhisperers™ Chairman, FSUN Fellow The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, Speaker, Author, VC, Investor Healthcare & Longevity.
Akiko Yamanaka
Senior Advisor
Former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 and later Special Ambassador for Peacebuilding of Japan.
T.W. Kang
Senior Advisor
Managing Director of Global Synergy Associates, a management consulting practice focused on enhancing global competence of multinational high technology firms, served on the board of directors of NEC Electronics, and has extensive experience in the U.S., Japan, China.
Camilla Rees MBA
Senior Advisor
Strategy, corporate finance, venture investing, championing change agents; Award-winning health and environmental activist, including the American Academy of Environmental Medicine's highest honor for contribution to Environmental Medicine, its Jonathan Forman Award.
Gordon Chanen
Senior Advisor
Mr. Chanen worked as an investment banker, project finance specialist, and institutional investor in VC and private equity markets since the 1980s. He led an SEC/FINRA-regulated investment bank in Seattle. BA Urban Studies George Washington University, MBA Wharton.
Kay Sprinkel Grace
Senior Advisor
AFP Global Fundraising Professional of the Year Award, Henry A. Rosso Medal for lifetime achievement in ethical fundraising, Top 25 speakers by Philanthropy Media, received Stanford Gold Spike award, and author of nine books, including The Ultimate Board Member's Book.
Joe Cambray Ph.D.
Senior Advisor
Past-President-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute and the International Association for Analytical Psychology; past U.S. Editor for the Journal of Analytic Psychology and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies
Dr. Lorin Gresser
Senior Advisor
MD, MBA, CEO Dem Dx, NIA Fellow, Aspen Global Scholar, Innovate UK Women in Innovation. Lorin founded Dem Dx in 2015. As well as her medical degree from King's College London she has a MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard University.
Sharif Rana
Senior Advisor
Ph.D., CEO World Talent Economy Forum Institute (WTEFI), professor at IUEE Univ. and ICARUS AI E-Learning, coaching, mentorship, talent management, human capital, research, innovation, and sustainable development.
John Shane
Senior Advisor
Generally regarded as one of the founders of the American venture capital industry, President Palmer Service Corporation, Senior VP American Research and Development Corporation