Richard Hanbury followed a childhood passion for horses to study Arabic in order to build community with fellow horse-owners worldwide. His pursuit took him to the Middle East where he met with a near death accident. He survived the event with a lifelong spinal cord injury. In grappling with the chronic pain he was experiencing post-incident, he developed a technique to relieve his suffering inspired by the principles of meditation. His approach resolved his pain in its entirety and he has made it his life's purpose to make the treatment more accessible to people. He founded his company Sana.io which makes good on that mission.

Aki Karja was born and raised in Finland, just north of Helsinki. He became very fond of skateboarding at a young age. This passion enabled him to travel the world. He studied finance at NYU and secured a job in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. From there he moved to the prestigious private equity fund Blackstone. After a few other stints in finance he opted to follow another life passion that he developed around art, largely influenced by a number of artist friends in his life, and launched Artfare, a site that matches artists with collectors.

Allie Sharma was born in the US and developed a strong sense for social justice on family trips to India, from where her ancestors hail. She parlayed that early passion into not only becoming a physician, earning her MD at Cornell, but also pursuing graduate work in social policy and planning at the London School of Economics. After her residency in psychiatry at UCSF and Cornell, and working in emergency psychiatry at Columbia University, she joined a Netherlands-based NGO and was placed in Afghanistan and Burundi to integrate mental health into primary care delivery. After returning to the US she worked with marginalized communities in the South Bronx providing psychiatric services. She was also Director of the Mental Health Service Corps, under the Thrive NYC initiative. She has brought her mental health advocacy to two podcasts she has launched, Model Mentality and Coping with COVID-19 by Dr. Allie.