Principal Alliance Members include:
Jim
Walsh is founder and
chairman of HESA. He has served as Chairman of the Board for Hawaiian Vintage
Chocolate since 1992 and Intentional Chocolate since 2007. He is co-founder and
member of the Badger Angel Capital Network, and serves on the advisory boards
for the Center for Creating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Spirituality and Wellness at the
Chicago Theological Seminary.
George Churinoff (Gelong
Thubten Tsultrim), MA, graduated from MIT in 1967 with a BS in Physics. After
attending graduate school in Physics, he taught at Choate School in Connecticut
and American Community School in Beirut.
He was ordained as a novice monk in India with Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche in 1976
and as a Gelong (or Bhikshu, a fully ordained monk) with Kyabje Ling Rinpoche
in 1977. Venerable Churinoff was instrumental in founding the Master's Program
at Istituto Lama Tsong Khapa in Italy. He received an MA in Buddhist Studies
from Dehli University in 1991. He currently teaches at Deep Park Buddhist Center
in Oregon, Wisconsin.
Richard J. Davidson, PhD, is Vilas
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at University of Wisconsin-Madison,
where he directs the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience and the Waisman
Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior. He received his PhD in Psychology
from Harvard University in 1976. He has published more than 250 articles,
chapters, and reviews, has edited 13 books, and was founding co-editor of the
journal EMOTION. Some of his most notable
awards include the Mani Bhaumik Award (UCLA), the William James Fellow Award
(APS), and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (APA). In 2006, TIME
Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Max Lagally, PhD, earned his BS in Physics from Pennsylvania State University, his MS
and PhD in Physics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently Erwin Mueller
Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science at University of
Wisconsin-Madison. His awards include the Davisson-Germer Prize in
Atomic or Surface Physics, the Welch Award, and the Outstanding Science Alumnus
Award from Pennsylvania State University. In 1999, he was elected to fellowship
in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2000, to the
National Academy of Engineering. His works have been cited more than 11,000
times.
Michael Levin, PhD, is professor and director at the Tufts Center
for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He completed a BS in computer
science and biology from Tufts University and a PhD in genetics from Harvard
Medical School. Dr. Levin is Co-Director and Senior Research Investigator at
the Forsyth Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. The editors of Nature ranked his work on asymmetry as
one of 24 key milestones in twentieth century developmental biology.
Andrea Maloney-Schara is president of Leaders for Tomorrow (LFT), and has served as faculty member at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family at Georgetown University since 1990.
Fernando
Manzanilla, MPP, is vice
chairman of HESA. He is founder and CEO of ImaginaMexico, founding partner and
board member of Intentional Chocolate, founder and president of Corporacion
Mexicana de Comida, Facthum, and Imex Servicios Empresariales. He serves on the
advisory board to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Spirituality and
Wellness at the Chicago Theological Seminary. He holds a BA in economics from
the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and an MPP from the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Robert Moore, PhD, is Distinguished
Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality in the
Graduate Center of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and Founding Director of
the Institute for Advanced Studies in Spirituality and Wellness. Psychoanalyst
and consultant in private practice, Dr. Moore has served as a training analyst
at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is Director of Research for the
Institute for Integrative Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and for the Chicago
Center for Integrative Psychotherapy. His most recent books include The Archetype of Initiation, The Magician and the Analyst, and Facing the Dragon.
Dean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic
Sciences and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State
University. He holds a BSEE degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an MS in electrical engineering, and a
PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Dr. Radin
has written or co-written over 200 technical and popular articles, as well as
the bestselling books Conscious Universe
and Entangled Minds. He has held
appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and University
of Nevada, has delivered over one hundred invited lectures at universities
around the world, and has appeared on numerous television programs including Larry King Live and Oprah.
Phillips W. Smith, PhD, is co-founder and former chairman of
Taser International. He was chairman of the board for Pentawave, president and
chief executive for Zycad Corporation, chairman and chief executive officer of
CAE Systems, and chairman and chief executive officer of EDGE Computer. He earned a BS from West Point, an
MBA from Michigan State University, and a PhD in Business Administration from
St. Louis University.
Paul Wendland,
PhD, is founder (retired) of United Detector Technology and Photodyn, Incorporated.
Terry Willkom is former president of the Wisconsin
Innovation Network. |