Team ÆRTH
Adina Popescu
Founder / CEO
Adina is a Philosopher & VR/AR Pioneer. She has advised Apple & Conservation International on VR/ METAVERSE as early as 2014, kicking off CIs immersive storytelling for impact. Adina is an avid public speaker and has published extensively on data privacy in a growing digitally connected world. At the Energy Transition Dialogue, UNESCO and GEZ she advocated for decentralized digital frameworks and has advised the German Government on privacy preserving protocols.
JT Reager
NASA - Remote Sensing Data integration
John is an award-winning NASA scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena where he studies water resources using satellites that monitor the Earth’s gravitational field. He is the principal investigator on the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment where his research focuses on using slight changes in the Earth’s gravitational field to map changes in water circulation and concentration. He is the Deputy Project Applications Lead for the GRACE-FO mission. Most recently JT Reager was awarded the presidential Early Career Award for Using Gravity to Track Earth’s Water Systems.
Ori Nakar
CTO
Ori has worked for 20+ with various technologies, platforms and teams. He holds a B.Sc in information systems engineering. For the last decade Ori has led product development teams that built consumer facing applications and tools for the likes of NBA, CNN and the BBC.
Jason George
Interim CFO
Jason was Founder & CEO of the pioneering interactive television company Victoria Real which was acquired by Endemol in 2001. Jason helped the company break new ground on multi-platform projects like Big Brother and Fame Academy.
He left Endemol in 2004 and took up a position as President of Digital Media for Virgin TV’s suite of cable networks. In 2006, Jason was recruited to become CEO of Fremantle-owned Telescope TV in the US, a leader in audience engagement working on landmark shows such as American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, X Factor, Got Talent and MTV’s Video Music Awards.
After leading the company through two private equity backed management buy-outs, Jason sold Telescope in 2021
Jens Wischnewsky
Tech Lead - Full Stack
Jens is a pragmatic full-stack engineer and architect with an M.Sc. Computer Science and a B.Sc. Mathematics.
Before ÆRTH, he gathered years of experience in his Role as Founder of a Math e-learning Startup, and as a Data Scientist for a social network.
Daniel Illner
ÆRTH AI
Holding a masters degree from Technical University Munich in Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence, Daniel is an Berlin based engineer with a strong background in Computer Science. As a former visiting research fellow at Harvard University, his interests circulate around Computation, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Neuroscience, the Mind and Philosophy.
Dr. Newton Campbell Jr
AROSE Space Consortium
Newton is the Director of Space Programs at the Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth (AROSE) Consortium. Newton began his career supporting US DOD research programs, primarily within DARPA. For ten years, he served as Principal Investigator and technical lead of research projects in the domains of Internet Privacy, Internet-of-Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems. After DoD, he served as an Artificial Intelligence (AI) subject matter expert for the NASA Langley Research Center OCIO Data Science Team. There, Newton focused on programs in urban air mobility, geomagnetism, virtual reality, AI Ethics, high-performance computing for computational physics, and space radiation effects on human biology.
Jack Healey
Advisor - Human Rights
Jack Healey was the Director of Amnesty International for 12 years. He is an American human rights activist. Called "Mr. Human Rights", Healey's focus has been on inspiring the youth to support non-violent activism that would push back oppressive governments and societies.
Brandon Levy
SOA
Chief Program Officer at Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA). Brandon is a community builder, systems thinker, and mission-driven professional with experience working with leading sustainable enterprises.
Herbert Sterchi
Operations Switzerland
Herbert has been in the blockchain industry since 2013 and helped to found companies like Ethereum, Consensys, Akasha, Polkadot and now ÆRTH.
Txai Macêdo
Advisor on Amazonian indigenous leadership
Indigenist since 1978, "sertanista" (word used to name the person who defends indigenous rights dedicated to mediate the relations between indigenous people and whitemen) since 1986. He was the founder and national coordinator along with Chico Mendes and Ailton Krenak of the Aliança dos Povos da Floresta (People of the Forest Alliance).
As a "sertanista", he received several titles such as Autonomist of the History of Acre, Motivator of the Forestry and Etinozoning Program in Indigenous lands, Holder of the Medal of Honor for Indigenous Merit, among others. He is one of the biggest proponents of Agro Forestry.
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