TEAM
futuresTHRIVE Leadership

Wendy Ward
Founder
A former advertising and sales executive with Psychology and Spanish degrees from Denison University, Wendy has a 30+ year career driving innovation and change. She is an expert in identifying critical needs and communicating vision. She has a proven track record in sales and combines innovative thinking with leading transformation and growth. Wendy uses her family’s own mental health struggle to fuel her passion for mainstreaming mental healthcare. Wendy is a 2018 YWCA Women of Distinction Awardee. She is certified in Mental Health First Aid ™, Stephen Minister™, and a Kimochis facilitator™.

Tracy Beeson
Lead Technical Advisor, CTO
Tracy has spent her 20+ year career working with, coaching and leading Agile software teams. She has built and designed processes for the Agile quality assurance role. She has experience in Product and UI/UX design as well as Project Management on multi-million dollar projects. In her consulting career, Tracy played a significant role on projects that spanned many different industries; Healthcare, Automotive, and Finance, to name a few. She has also worked in the Insurance industry on a project utilizing data science and machine learning.
Tracy has experience designing data science tools such as natural language processing (NLP) and optical recognition for customer satisfaction, analyzing results designed and written by Menlo Innovations using complicated mathematical algorithms to find specific populations of cells, designing and delivering ML programs that identifies genetic information to match hair samples with 9/11 victim body parts, and the design of tools, addressing topics such as diabetes and obesity, including content and surveys.
Tracy has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont where she majored in Computer Science and earned her secondary teaching license in Math and Computer Science. She is currently earning her MBA at Eastern University in Michigan.
Our Team
Charlee Tarr
Full Stack Developer
Our Advisory Boards
ADVISORY

Megan Girald
Director - Innovation, NielsenIQ

Eric Heikkila
Ford Motor, Player/Coach at Ford Motor Company

Christine Sullivan
Business Advisor, CT Small Business Development Center
MEDICAL ADVISORY

Amanda Craig
Ph.D., L.M.F.T, Founder, Manhattan Marriage & Family Therapy

Patricia Gail Bray
Ph.D., Founding Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown BridgeUp at Menninger Center at the Menninger Clinic

Dr. Suzanne Kyle
MD, FAAP, Texas Children's Pediatrics

Douglas Noordsy, M.D.
Clinical Professor & Director of Lifestyle Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine
Fran Leof
Psy.D Psychology

Susan Davis-Becker
Ph.D. Psychometrics
Our Partners
Agrin Health
Agrin health is a team of healthcare and technology experts who want to make it easier for people to work with their Care Team to support the health and wellness of their family. Founder Karen Thomas brings her extensive knowledge in healthcare and passion for mental health to futuresTHRIVE prototype design and development.
OmniScience
OmniScience’s Vivo is a groundbreaking genAI clinical trial data intelligence product that integrates complex data modalities to provide deep insights. By leveraging Vivo’s advanced voice and video analytics capabilities, developed to support digital biomarker analytics and precision psychiatry, futuresTHRIVE enables a better understanding of children’s emotional state and language use, significantly enhancing the assessment of their mental health.Vivo delivers . Designed to adapt to each study’s unique complexities, Vivo empowers teams with precision oversight. OmniScience aims to accelerate clients’ advances in human health, nutrition, therapeutics, diagnostics, and behavior creating profound advances for humanity.
Realist Lab Ventures
Realist Lab is a pioneering organization that leverages innovation to reimagine a more equitable future. They are committed to creating an inclusive business environment, catalyzing startup growth, revitalizing local economies, and making a positive social impact. Drawing on deep expertise in technology and business strategies, They employ a human-centered approach to support startups. Championing innovation can transform the startup landscape and create a brighter, more inclusive future for all.
Tom Richner
Expert storyboard artist, animation layout and layout artist Tom has,13 years teaching animation at the Columbus College of Art & Design and currently designs for the Simpson’s. An invaluable partnership, Tom’s experience rounds out our best-in-class team for game design and a revolutionary mental health assessment platform.




