Team

Daniel Pinchbeck

Senior Researcher

Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of Breaking Open the Head, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, How Soon Is Now, and (with Sophia Rokhlin), When Plants Dream.

He publishes his ideas in his newsletter, Liminal News. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and many other publications.

Andi X

Adviser

(Andréa Paige, ND): Before the Instagram era, Andi led an influencer career as a Naturopath, directing the wellness clinic at the largest retreat center in the world.

Running global fasting retreats and leading yoga teacher trainings, she worked, traveled and studied in 100+ countries, intent on accelerating the consciousness of our species.

Lecturing on the human interface (from healthy poop to existential inquiry), Andi re-instills agency in growth-oriented humans collecting data points on the entirety of their human experience. Knowing 2020 would be the tipping point of our modern area, in 2019, Andi founded The Institute For Aliveness (TIFA), an essential cyber college in an age of questionable higher education.

Its flagship accredited Master’s program in Applied Epigenetics is pioneering research on Embodied Nonduality. TIFA’s student body represents 50+ countries. Andi's an advisor, consulting startups and VCs in Europe + the US in Emotional Intelligence & physiological computing. She is a passionate advocate of somatic psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy’s trauma-healing potential + is also a supporter of the Decentralization & data ownership movements.

Guy James

Operations

Guy James read Philosophy at university in the UK then went into I.T. He was one of the original members of FairCoop, one of the very first attempts at forming a DAO (then called a ‘blockchain cooperative’).

He has also worked with the P2P Foundation, Guerrilla Translation, PandoraHub, Cooperativa Integral Catalana, Ecoxarxa Garrotxa and various others, all around the idea of P2P solutions, alternative currency, cooperatives and crypto.

He has just returned from a six year period of running a meditation centre in the Pyrenees.

Britta Gruenig

Adviser

Britta Gruenig is a certified co-active coach dedicated to enabling impact through personal transformation. She has a rich background in coaching, personal development, and impact investing, working with high net worth families, impact tech startups, and family office successors globally. Britta emphasizes the importance of inner clarity, courage, and commitment for global transformation, offering evidence-based coaching to align clients' inner and outer impact journeys. As the Founder of Gruenig & Partners and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of Zurich, Britta focuses on helping individuals, couples, siblings, and families in the wealth space define their Impact Quest and collaborative leadership strategies for a regenerative future. Britta's mission is to guide changemakers towards personal and cultural transformation, encouraging them to lead impactful and collaborative efforts for a better world.

Tharald Nustad

Director

Tharald Nustad is a tech entrepreneur and investor focusing on technology that makes the world better. He works closely with Ashoka helping social entrepreneurs, and leads Mallin, a family office focusing on Impact real estate development and investing in impact funds.

Tharald is founder and chairman of Plastilin, an incubator that starts, develops and invests in tech and communication businesses. He also invests in early stage impact startups with a tech foundation through his personal investment arm Nordic Impact, in addition to help build the impact investing ecosystem.