Board of Directors

We’re led by a board that’s both minority-majority and female-majority,
and our team’s diversity spans ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality and ability.

  • Irish immigrant, farmer and civil engineer who transitioned to launching & leading (with Level UP Tech co-founder Declan Owens) a range of successful social benefit companies spanning from education to real estate to blockchain technology.

    Visionary, in partnership with Herman Van Heerden, Level UPs Tech Architect, and David Orr, Chief Scientist, behind the Green Digital Drivetrain and the technology infrastructure that makes the Level UP Apps possible.

    Oversees Product Development, App Operations, Marketing, Business Development and Fundraising.

Officers

  • Irish immigrant, pro-level athlete, expert in Web3 and related technologies, co-founder and co-builder of a range of innovative companies spanning from an International Soccer School to NFT marketplaces. Experienced administrator of global online communities.

Level UP Tech Panel

  • Native South African residing with his family in Vancouver, BC.

    Scientist and strategist, encryption specialist, tech explorer and innovator. Creator of breakthrough technology that makes Level UP Apps possible; including a high-capacity, low-friction, self-healing, hyper-efficient blockchain platform, smart data infrastructure, and novel privacy tech.

    Veteran app developer. Author of 2013’s A First Course In Ethical Hacking

  • African American womanist, social worker, racial justice and anti-poverty activist.

    Crystal is expert in the factors that drive entrenched intergenerational poverty, and the adverse impact public policy has on working-class households, and particularly on working mothers.

    Founding Principal of HomeWorks, a social benefit real estate firm committed to helping people move from homelessness to homeownership.

  • Lakota Elder and veteran Native Rights, indigenous health & environmental activist.

    Organized native communities and prevented nuclear waste dumping on her reservation in 1985, and in 2016, participated in the Standing Rock protest which inspired Global solidarity.

    MS, Public Health. Linda is expert in factors that drive poverty, diminished quality of life & life expectancy among indigenous populations.

  • Educator, public activist and influential environmental leader.

    Founder of “We are the ARK” a worldwide movement of people, companies, and towns who have committed portions of the land under their care to serve as sanctuaries for native plants and ecosystems. ARK stands for “Acts of Restorative Kindness” towards our world.

    Author of The Garden Awakening, and We are the ARK. Subject of the 2015 film, Dare to Be Wild.

  • African American social activist/advocate (MBA, Th.D) who grew up in poverty in post-Civil Rights era Alabama. Social ecologist, researcher, minister, change strategist, LGBTQ+ rights advocate, and creator of the Level UP apps.

    Oversees Anti-Poverty Strategy, App Envisioning and Design, Corporate Finance, Business Administration, Advocacy, Engagement, and Movement-building.

    Author of Me and Mary, which describes the humanitarian ethos at the heart of our company, and This Land Is Your Land, which outlines the unprecedented societal shifts that make this work so necessary.

  • Mathematician, musician, Army Airborne Ranger, Certified Public Account, financial auditor and tax strategist.

    Former CFO and board member. Founding Partner of a successful accounting firm. Exited through company sale. Of Native Hawaiian, European and Chinese ancestry.

  • Tech pioneer whose contributions to the field span from computing’s nascent days to Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing today.

    AI pioneer. Creator of Rules/Case-based Reasoning Software Systems and a pocket-sized AI initiative that uses less than one millionth of the energy of today’s large language models. Ph.D, MS, MBA.

  • South Korea immigrant, social architect, operations expert, and designer of societally integrated, tech-enabled online communities and exchanges.

    Inventor of a network of intersecting online economic ecosystems and micro-economies - ones capable of facilitating sustainable commerce, fostering mutual benefit, and promoting economic inclusion.