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Jeff Coleman – CEO & Co-Founder
As an entrepreneur, Jeff enjoys helping companies make the leap from an idea to a viable business. BrainLeap Technologies has an opportunity to help millions of attention-challenged children improve the attention skills needed to do better at school and more broadly in life. Our approach to training attention is both novel and measurable.
Jeff is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and has worked with many small and growing businesses over the past 20 years – from biotech to software to fashion photography. Whether as an employee or consultant, his focus has been on helping them grow.
Leanne Chukoskie, PhD – Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder
In collaboration with Jeanne, Leanne conceptualized the ideas for the attention training games and the gamified assessments, ensuring they incorporate the critical elements necessary to train and accurately measure attention. She provides scientific guidance on software development efforts and creates new content for thought leadership.
Leanne is a co-director of the Research on Autism and Development Lab at UC San Diego, an Assistant Research Scientist in the Institute for Neural Computation, Assistant Science Director of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), and the Director of the Power of NeuroGaming (PoNG) Center at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego.
Jeanne Townsend, PhD – Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor
Jeanne provides scientific guidance to the BrainLeap team and oversees data analysis. She is a Professor in the Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego where she directs the Research on Autism and Development Lab. She is a Neuropsychologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist whose research focus is on the identification of the brain bases of cognition. She is especially interested in attentional processes.
Jeanne has studied selective and shifting attention and the underlying brain networks in both typical and atypical development for more than two decades, and has received NIH funding to conduct large studies of attentional function in autism, other developmental disorders and healthy aging. Her previous work has identified deficits in visual attention in autism including delayed attention disengagement, orienting and shifting and a severely restricted attentional field. Most recently, Jeanne and her colleagues have begun to incorporate innovative technology into their research and are developing new approaches to translate their research into effective interventions.
The gaze-driven video games to train attention and eye movement were developed with funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health (R21/R33 MH096967).
Joseph Snider, PhD – Chief Technology Officer
Joe is BrainLeap’s lead programmer and gets the hardware and software to effectively talk with each other. He keeps abreast of changes in the technology landscape and how BrainLeap can take advantage of them.
Joe maintains an appointment at UC San Diego where he directs the Motion Capture and Brain Dynamics laboratory at the Institute for Neural Computation at UC San Diego and co-directs the Power of Neurogaming (PoNG) Center. Joe likes to use the tools of virtual reality, neural imaging, and psychophysics to study how humans deal with the noisy, ever-changing, and confusing environments we evolved in. Through this and his training in computational physics, he has 10+ years of integrating cutting-edge pieces of technology into coherent systems.
Donna Auguste, PhD – Director of Customer Engagement
Donna brings 30 years of industry experience and a background in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education research to BrainLeap. She is focused on customer engagement and excited about where future research may take us. She’s also very good at finding bugs in software 🙂
Michael Gramlich – Software Developer & Test Engineer
Michael has designed and built one of the BrainLeap games and works on improving usability on an ongoing basis – from improving game play to the user interface. He is also BrainLeap’s primary quality assurance tester.
Mark Wojciechowski, M.Ed., M.Phil. – Senior Consultant
Mark’s personal aim is to increase human flourishing locally and globally through innovation and building community. Mark’s professional aim is to help ed-tech companies large and small build and market equitable, effective tools and resources for diverse learners and frontline educators. Mark worked in public education for 11 years as a college admissions counselor, adjunct professor, K-12 school teacher, and resource specialist. Mark is a certified personal and organizational consultant through the Logic-Based Therapy and Consulting Institute.
Thomas Hinz – Director of Educational Partnerships
Thomas Hinz has over 30 years of K12, Higher Education and corporate sales, strategic management and leadership experience. Thom’s K12 experience includes numerous educational partnerships with State Departments of Education, school districts, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. These partnerships delivered programs to improve college admissions for first-generation college-bound students and improve student outcomes in underserved populations. Additionally, Thom created intervention programs to help high school students improve their career readiness as well as reading intervention programs.