MEET THE TEAM
EXECUTIVE TEAM
ADVISERS AND AMBASSADORS
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DIGITAL NATION | THE SCAN TRUCK
Ken Kragen
World leading humanitarian and visionary Ken Kragen was responsible for the song “We are the World” and Hands Across America where 6.5 million people held hand simultaneously in a human chain across the United States in 1986. A feat never repeated to this day.
” We believe this will be the most meaningful charity effort ever attempted world-wide “
Neil Morgan
Neil Morgan has over 20 years’ experience working throughout international markets facilitating sophisticated business introductions and capital investments. Neil is a successful technology entrepreneur and the founder of Good Hands Productions. He previously held senior executive roles at KPMG and other noteworthy global consulting firms. Over the last several years Neil has been involved in cutting edge Mixed Reality technologies and their applications to social media and Global impact. He has demonstrated competence in managing complex business transactions and effective liaison at CEO and Board levels. Neil’s key competencies are innovation, perseverance, developing deep and trusted business relationships and business development. He has an innate ability to open doors and make the right connections and prides himself on integrity and delivering on promises.
”Neil is the walking edition of the human LinkedIn. Contacts are the key to success and Neil’s brand is his reputation. He is intelligent, articulate, extremely personable, highly motivated and an Entrepreneur with a zest for life.”
James Gorry Senior IBM Executive
Peggy Liu
Peggy Liu, Chairperson of JUCCCE, is a leading environmentalist at the heart of the greening of China since 2007. Named the "Green Goddess of China" by Chinese press, she travels the world to consult companies and governments on how to catalyze societal-scale change, scale sustainable innovation, and collaborate with China.
Peggy keynotes around the world on lessons she learnt in tackling China's toughest environmental challenges: pollution, urbanization, epidemics, drought, obesity and diabetes. Peggy's superpower is bringing people together to bring in a better future faster. Peggy's "Tornado Leadership" methodology draws from her work across policy, economic, technical, and spiritual realms to lead these China-wide changes:
- Organized the MIT Forum on the Future of Energy in China from which JUCCCE was formed. This forum was the first public dialogue between US and Chinese government officials on clean energy in China, just as China was just starting to look seriously at greening itself. China quickly became the world leader in renewable energy investments.
- Introduced Smart Grid to China and catalyzed the revolution of electricity distribution to allow for renewable energies and energy efficiency at scale. Now China is the world leader in implementing Smart Grid innovations.
- Educated 1000 Chinese government leaders (mayors and central government) on how to build sustainable cities with the earliest trainings on "ecocity development". This curriculum helped shape eco-city trends in China. Now China is leading the world in building sustainable cities.
- Catalysed China’s change from incandescent lighting to energy efficient lighting, the largest leverage point in saving energy. Now China is the world leader in LEDs.
- Created the China Dream initiative in 2010 to reimagine prosperity for sustainable consumerism. "China Dream" is now the national slogan. A healthy environment is now embedded into the national priority and identity of China.
- Launched Food Heroes in 2013, teaching young kids and parents to eat in a way that is good for themselves and the planet. Now China's diets are incorporating more planetary friendly foods and food waste policies are strictly implemented.
Travis Cloyd
Travis Cloyd is the CEO of Worldwide XR based in Los Angeles, CA and an accomplished creative innovator in XR—delivering successful projects in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality for multiple sports and entertainment clients.
Under Mr. Cloyd’s leadership, Worldwide XR combines a full service XR development studio with proprietary IP assets of historical and current celebrity figures. An industry first, WWXR creates immersive XR content for top brands, sports organizations and entertainment companies that includes proprietary volumetric models of over 400 iconic sports, entertainment and historical persons and organizations.
Mr. Cloyd resides in California and Florida and spends his free time working with organizations like NOAA and traveling to meet with advisors, universities, developers, industry experts, platforms and other creators with the goal of expanding emerging XR media, staying current on technological innovation and evangelizing the burgeoning XR industry.
Ravi Velhal
Ravi Velhal leads Digital Media Standards, Technologies and Immersive Cinema programs globally at Intel. As a Cinema Virtual Reality Experience (VRE) pioneer, he co-produced Le Musk multi-sensory VR by A.R. Rahman, Save Every Breathe: Dunkirk VRE with Warner Bros, FIRST MAN: VRE with Universal Pictures and RYOT, directed Rio Carnival 2018 VRE with GloboTV, collaborated with Sony Pictures on SpiderMan: Home Coming VRE which was nominated for prestigious Emmy, and he recently launched Innovation Studios with Sony Pictures.
At Mobile World Congress in Feb 2019, he collaborated with Sony Pictures to launch SpiderMan: Far From Home, the world’s first multiplayer VRE gaming experience over 5G. His focus is to drive future immersive cinema, including future media formats. Ravi is recipient of Hollywood’s prestigious Lumiere award, Infinity Film Festival of Beverly Hills Audience Choice Award. Ravi holds several global patents, and he has served as a director on the AIS/VR Society board, and an advisor to film and trade organizations, globally.
Apo Bazidi
Apo W. Bazidi is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has been interested in storytelling and writing since he was a child.
Apo’s films are primarily concerned with social issues and the importance of global cultural interactions. He believes in making a positive change and his motto is “be creative and inspire”.
“We will document the making of this incredible project in a way, never seen before”.
Jane Gehr
Jane Gehr (Kaliyani) is a spiritually inspired visionary, facilitator of sacred circles, producer, writer and artist who thrives in offering herself as an instrument for the betterment of humanity and uplifting of consciousness on the planet. Her connection with Source, is the driving force and fuel in everything she co-creates
Kaliyani received her B.A. in Psychology from UCLA soon after transferring from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Brazil, where she was born. She later, returned to school to get her M.A. in Spiritual Psychology at USM, in Santa Monica, California. She’s the Visionary and Founder of her own conscious media production company, Stargate Alliance, which among a few other conscious media projects, is also the umbrella for her own artist label Mystic-sounds. As a singles music artist, instead of the traditional singer-songwriter title, she describes herself as a cosmic vocalist, due to the unique nature of her compositions and music videos, which have together earned over 4.5 Million views on YouTube and earned her #2 on the Billboard Hot Singles Charts.
Kaliyani is also a published author in an anthology book named The Power Of Being a Woman, which entire proceeds go to a NPO called Women Of Africa. She is currently working on her next upcoming book, Jewel in the Mud, a journey of self-discovery from a soul perspective, where she guides the reader, on taking new heights to look at life from an elevated perspective of being a student in this soul evolutionary school called Earth and liberation themselves from the grip of trauma and misinterpretations of experiences, which together causes distortions in judgment and block the individual from attaining higher levers of self-actualization.
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Kunal Sood
Kunal is an internationally acclaimed social impact entrepreneur and award-winning disruptive innovator who is on a mission to make the impossible possible in the era of the Creator Economy. As the founder of X-Impact Ventures, #WeThePlanet, NOVUS, X Fellows, and We The Future (WTF) he has made his life’s purpose to transform the world for a better future by positively impacting a billion lives in his lifetime. He does this by bridging the worlds of power and influence with meaning and purpose to build the next generation of purpose-driven leaders and organizations. Sood has a passion for designing and curating deeply immersive and transformational experiences that shapes culture and inspires people from all around the world to harness the power of collaboration in turning their ideas into real-world action and impact.
From working in the trenches of the slums in Mumbai with Harvard at PUKAR to building global movements with world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Kunal began his impact journey as a Global Health scientist while training with UCSF one of the worlds best institutions after which he was the only one selected as co-principal investigator on a groundbreaking global health project with Harvard at PUKAR. Today he is building public-private partnerships with distinguished organizations like the UN, NASA, Facebook, Google, SAP, X Prize and many more. Kunal has hosted iconic leaders, explorers and artists like Prime Minister Modi, Anousheh Ansari, HRH Dr. Nisreen El Hashemite, Steve Forbes, Marc Benioff, Deepak Chopra and Sadhguru to shift the narrative around social innovation and impact in order to develop leaders of the future that can do build a better world.
Currently as the founder of We The Planet he is building out global campaigns #MissionHope, #OperationHOPE, #FirstWoman and #WeHaveADream. At X Fellows he is creating the network of networks, which is a highly curated collective of extraordinary citizens including, artists, musicians, innovators and explorers that support all of the campaigns. #WeHaveADream is a social justice movement using music and storytellers to end all forms of social, racial, and environmental injustice on the Planet.
Over the past decade, Sood has convened over 50 high-level summits with the United Nations, including TEDx, NOVUS and SDG Innovation at the UN General Assembly to galvanize humanity through science, innovation and technology supporting the United Nations to achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Prior the global pandemic Sood partnered with the Office of the UN Secretary General and President of the UN General Assembly to curate and produce the first-ever SDG Youth Dialogue and SDG Moonshots Summit, which was his most recent initiative in partnership with the UAE Permanent Mission to the United Nations to democratize the 17 UN SDGs as humanity’s ultimate moonshot on earth declaring the next decade of Hope in Action.
As a pioneer in his field, Forbes named Sood as one of the world's ‘Icons of Impact’ and honored him as a ‘Global Movement Builder.’ He is a TED Resident and serves as a Global Ambassador for the Non-Violence Project, Singularity University and OpenEXO.
Sood is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships that include his work for being an impact entrepreneur as a force for good working in the field of social innovation, honoring him with their prestigious Metcalfe Prize at the 10th Anniversary at the annual Disruptor Awards (TDIA) Ceremony hosted during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. He is the recipient of the Media for Social Impact Award at the United Nations, World Innovation Award at SAP NextGen and Global Impact Award from NASA and NYSA at Google.
Sood has a life long love for learning having earned five master’s degrees including his M.B.A., from Kellogg-Northwestern, M.A., From CIIS, M.Sc., from UCSF and M.A.P.P./M.Phil., from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds positions at Columbia University as an Innovation Fellow, Singularity University as a GSP Fellow, and at the Indian School of Business as an Executive Fellow. Sood serves on the advisory boards for Space For Humanity, 01 Ventures and Lottery.com. He leverages the exponential potential of modern-day technologies to solve the world’s most urgent and pressing problems. Sood started his career in the fashion and wellness industry in New York City 20 years ago after graduating from New School University’s prestigious Parsons School of Design.
Garson Silvers
Garson takes sustainability to a new level. As a real estate developer for almost four decades, he’s always had the mindset of “Earth Stewardship” very close to his heart. Starting his career at age 18 while attending Texas State University, he majored in Geography, and with an early environmental and economic consciousness, held a dual major focusing on Urban Planning and Environmental Study.
He is a published author with writings in college textbooks used in Universities around the world to include Harvard, Stanford and Mumbai University of Management on the subject of Sustainability, he is considered a multi-national expert in the field of sustainable green development. Garson has co-authored titles “Global Sustainable Communities Handbook'' , “The Green Industrial Revolution”, The Green Revolution in India”, “Compact City Updates”, “Micro City: Standard Design Micro and Compact Cities”, “Green Sustainable Financing: Pathway to Enhanced Environment” . Mr. Silvers created a sustainable micro township concept that made use of the housing units in India; this project was subsequently featured in the Global Sustainable Community Handbook for use in top Universities across the United States. As a result, the concept has morphed into a particularly lucrative additional market upon realizing that if any community that does not make full use of all of the ZMU units should go off the grid for a significant period due to weather emergencies, those individual units could still not only become the source of their own emergency power, but in turn be able to help feed the grid and community in which they're located with any excess self-power generated. In essence, Mr. Silvers' goal has now evolved to not only make each individual home totally self-sufficient for its occupants but further allow each household to contribute what additional power may be left over to support the local grid community, which would simultaneously promote the superiority of his system by example throughout each local community, as well as help save lives. This led to the below concept he envisioned to now seek to build micro-community townships in appropriate geographic locations, the concept for which was recently featured in Forbes Magazine.
JONAS HUDSON
Jonas is a highly skilled global mobile and interactive marketing and distribution executive with over 20 years of experience. Mobile, Ethereum, Blockchain, social media and online marketing solutions. Skilled presenter, negotiator and communicator with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. His experience spans business development in foreign markets, specifically China and Latin America. Specialties: Mobile, 360/VR, Blockchain, Ethereum, Coupons/Rebates, Social Gaming, New Media Production and Content Syndication. He is a Speaker / Moderator at
Global Food Safety Conference, Tokyo, Japan, Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, Tripartite Summit, Auckland, New Zealand.
GAIL STURM
Gail Sturm is a passionate advocate for nature, the arts, and mental health, Gail has served as Board Chair for Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods. Brushwood Center is dedicated to providing equitable access to nature and art programming for the physical and mental wellbeing of individuals and communities. Through programs like virtual youth poetry lessons, photography challenges for veterans, and our illuminating, live-streamed Smith Nature Symposium series, She has found innovative ways to continue connecting with our community and serving youth, families, veterans, and the general public during the pandemic.
Gail is Chairman of Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods, Former Chairman and Founding Board Member of Luster Learning Institute; Calm Classroom, Former
Vice Chairman of Lake Forest Symphony, Board Member of Fenix Family Health Center, Advisory Board Member of Arzu Studio Hope, Resource Board Member of the Metropolitan Planning Council of Chicago and Former Chairman of the Transportation Management Association of Lake Cook. In addition, Ms. Sturm is actively involved with the Economic Club of Chicago.