Business Experience & Education: Jason  is a dynamic senior executive with over 25 years leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of human capital strategies and solutions to achieve company performance goals, workforce outcomes, and overall individual, team and organizational success from startups to multi-billion dollar companies in multiple industries. He is founder of THRIVE, a boutique human capital consulting practice, delivering executive coaching and advisory, change management and strategic planning and execution expertise for mid to senior-level leaders and leadership teams of high-growth mid-market companies. He is also Chief People Officer & SVP Human Resources for Colonial Management Group, LP where he leads the strategic and executive aspects of the human resources function for a high-growth healthcare company.

Jason earned a PhD in psychology, MBA, MS in Human Services, and BS in management from Purdue University and serves on multiple boards as a trusted advisor to executives and their teams.

Why Mindyra ?:  “Through my years as a business executive and mental health practitioner, I’ve seen countless team members struggle with mental health challenges that ultimately impacted their jobs, their families, and themselves in often tragic ways. Mindyra provides a pathway for individuals to understand themselves more deeply and for organizations to offer options to give solutions in a confidential, affirming and supportive way that benefits everyone. Change happens over time. Mindyra’s team of visionaries and compassionate caregivers is leading a new direction of care. Leveraging technology to transform lives…it’s a win win proposition.”

Business Experience & Education: Deslyn Norris consults on culture, engagement, change management, development, and retention efforts as the Founder/CEO of 2Resolve and as a board member of Voicebox Karaoke.  She plays a key role in shaping an organization’s operational infrastructure, the human resources function, and creating a best-in-class team of talent.  Put simply, Deslyn strives to help her clients be the place to work. 

Prior to launching 2Resolve, Deslyn served as the Chief People Officer for Getaway; a hospitality startup.  Deslyn has also served in roles as Chief People Officer for Fitness Connection, a health and wellness concept based in Dallas.  As well as Vice President of Human Resources for Topgolf and was responsible for all talent efforts while Topgolf’s company associate base grew from approximately 1,000 associates to more than 18,000.  

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial/Organizational psychology from the University of South Florida and her Master of Business Administration from Kennesaw State University. 

Why Mindyra?: “In college I interned at Charter Hospital and then one of my first jobs out of college was working at Park Place Behavioral Health Care, so I have seen first-hand the journey for a healthier life, if a client has the resources.  Mindyra, provides comprehensive mental health access for ALL that are specific to the individual.“

Business Experience & Education:  As a Senior Principal at Mercer, Telvin Jeffries has been a thought leader in the Human Resources profession for the last 20+ years.  With Human Resource Executive Leadership positions at retail giants, Radio Shack and Kohls, Telvin has now taken his expertise to help a myriad of clients in the HR benefit consulting business he runs at Mercer.  Telvin graduated from Columbia Southern University and received his MBA from ThePower Business School. 

Why Mindyra?: "Finding the best mental health solution to cover a large employer population is pretty challenging but the availability of the "right " solution for each individual is critical to the overall health of the workforce. There is so much noise about what is best, but little discussion about the need to understand the illness challenge first and then the ability to select the optimal choice of care appropriate to each individual's needs. The Mindyra  focus on providing access to a broad range of mental health services, proprietary measurement of effectiveness, delivered at a  reasonable cost,  drive my interest in Mindyra. In working with Mindyra there is one place to go for care with access to a range of solutions; one platform under one agreement. They make it possible for the HR head to offer solutions for the entire population in one place that are straightforward and cost effective and easy to use for any employee."

Business Experience & Education: Kelley Barringer is a VP Consultant at USI. She is a collaborator. Her expertise is advising mid-market companies on their employee benefits/health and welfare programs.  Kelley sits on multiple boards including her local SHRM chapter and Chamber boards.  She is passionate about connecting her network with the tools and resources they need to progress forward and achieve organizational objectives.  Kelley’s undergraduate degree is from The University of Texas at Arlington, and she is pursuing her MBA from Southern Methodist University. 

Why Mindyra?:  "Mindyra's approach to mental health and wellness is unique in how the team has taken the traditional ideas about mental health and paired those with new, clinical methods that show results.  Since mental health is often hidden, it's important to meet people and organizations where they are in finding and providing solutions to their populations.  Mindyra has engineered tools to help people identify where they are in their mental health journey and has partnered with other providers that are best-in-class to execute on a wide range of solutions and delivery methods."

Professional Experience & Education: Hank is a nationally recognized psychiatrist, hospital executive, author and mental health advocate. He currently serves as Psychiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus at The Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital.  At The Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital, Hank led a full-service psychiatric hospital system with a broad continuum of clinical and training programs and multiple research centers. He founded the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, a state-of-the-art fMRI brain imaging and genetics center devoted to research on severe mental illness, and the Anxiety Disorders Center, with clinical and research programs in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the anxiety disorders.  He has published over 80 articles, book chapters or books, primarily on issues at the interface of psychiatry, law, ethics, and public policy. He is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has won numerous awards and honors.

Hank received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency at New York Hospital / Cornell Medical Center Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center.

In 2000, Hank served on the (Connecticut) Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Mental Health. Following the mass murder in Newtown, Governor Malloy appointed him to the Governor’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and he subsequently served as a co-author of the Sandy Hook Report issued by the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate. He is a past-President of the Connecticut Psychiatric Society where he has served as Legislative Chair for over 20 years – testifying frequently at the legislature on matters vital to mental health and contributing to the crafting of mental health statutes in Connecticut, including the state’s mental health parity law.

He is Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Adjunct, in the Yale University School of Medicine.

Why Mindyra?: “Having served in leadership roles throughout my career, I am all too familiar with the quality of services generally available to those in need of behavioral health care.  While sometimes excellent, that care is often variable in quality and, in many cases, difficult to access.  I was attracted to Mindyra for its focus on the key quality issues:  the provision of reliable, valid and easy to use assessment tools, education, client tools and treatment options that are just a click away, a unique outcomes measurement system to keep clients on the right treatment path and a focus on proactive wellness alongside clinical care.  Mindyra is taking us into the future of behavioral health and wellness.”

Professional Experience & Education: Mike has been Acadia Healthcare’s Chief Medical Officer since 2017 and has brought years of patient-facing experience to Acadia’s leadership team. He is a clinical psychiatrist and addiction specialist. Mike graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. and before beginning his medical studies, earned a JD degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He did his Residency Training in Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut from 2001 to 2004 and was a Fellow at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program at the New York University School of Medicine from 2004 to 2005. He is also a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Mike serves on the CMO Corporate Council of The Joint Commission, seeking to optimize quality and safety in healthcare. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He is a member of the New York Bar and the American Bar Association and is an advocate for attorneys and first responders seeking treatment for addiction and co-occurring disorders.

Why Mindyra?: “Accurately and systematically evaluating the mental health of patients utilizing standardized, validated measures in acute psychiatric hospitals has, for many years, presented a number of unique challenges.  After reviewing the literature and consulting with several acute psychiatric hospital CMO’s, it became apparent that there is no industry standard measurement tool to systematically track the problems and progress of acute psychiatric patients. Mindyra collaborated with Acadia to apply a new testing system across an entire healthcare system. 

Working together to apply this testing system across all of Acadia Healthcare allowed us to gather data from thousands of patients and gave us the ability to look at how the our testing system compares with alternative measurement tools.

In our view, there is no better current alternative that clinicians are using in the acute psychiatric space. As we see more movement in the direction of having national benchmarks to better understand patient care, we believe our partnership with Mindyra represents an opportunity to lead that change. As our health system moves towards value-based care, a testing system like Mindyra’s allows us to track patient progress and puts us ahead of the pack in the acute setting. It now becomes quite straightforward to demonstrate the improvements our patients make in a more objective and scalable manner. “

Professional Experience & Education: Lloyd is a psychiatrist, public health doctor and non-fiction writer.  He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University School of Public Health, and has previously served as Chief Medical Officer and EVP of McLean Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital; Mental Health Commissioner of NYC (in the Bloomberg administration); and Chief Medical Officer of the NYS Office of Mental Health, the nation’s largest state MH Agency. Graduated with a BS from City College of New York and received his MD from the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center.  He completed his Residency in Psychiatry at SUNY, Upstate Medical Center.

Lloyd has delivered numerous “named” lectures. His awards include the Rockefeller Scholar in Residence, Doctor of the Year from the National Council on Behavioral Health, both Administrator and Teacher of the Year from the American Psychiatric Association, the Dutch Psychiatric Association’s Certificate of Honor, and The Courage To Change from the NYS Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services. 

His interest in writing has led him to publish 13 books, the first seven for medical professionals (two with multiple editions) and, more recently, six for a general audience. He has published ~500 articles for print and on-line publications, including the NYT, the WSJ, Scientific American, Lancet, Medscape, The Atlantic, The Tennessean, Commonweal and US News and World Report (where he wrote an Opinion column for 2 years). He was Medical Editor for Mental Health at the HuffPost, where >200 of his articles, audios and videos appeared. He currently is a Contributing Writer for Psychology Today, Psychiatric Times and The NY Journal of Books.  

For 18 sequential semesters he provided a Workshop on Medical Writing for the General Public at the Columbia Department of Psychiatry, where he also founded and directed Columbia Psychiatry Media, which produced, for national distribution, interviews, podcasts and articles by experts on mental health and the addictions, including a Resident/Fellow column for a popular psychiatry publication, and Resident/Fellow Podcast . He has convened conferences, in partnership with the Columbia School of Journalism, on mental health the addictions and social justice.

Why Mindyra?:  “Because our CEO, Bill Battey, engaged me at the company’s start to help him improve access to and the quality of mental health services.”

Professional Experience & Education: Director, Anxiety Disorders Center, The Institute of Living; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. David received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arkansas, and was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Connecticut to establish the Anxiety Disorders Center at The Institute of Living.  The author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and several books, David’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  He has been given the award for distinguished contribution to the science of psychology, the award for distinguished contribution to the practice of psychology, and the award for lifetime contribution to psychology from the Connecticut Psychological Association.  He has served as president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. David regularly provides community workshops to disseminate information about mental health conditions and mental health treatment.

Why Mindyra?: “I was attracted to Mindyra because although psychiatric disorders are extremely common, most people suffering from these disorders do not receive evidence-based care.  Mindyra can help rectify this problem by making clinicians and consumers aware of the conditions being treated, providing solid assessment tools to help clinicians make appropriate diagnoses, point clinicians toward optimal treatment strategies, and assisting with the tracking of patient progress.  This, in my opinion, is a big step forward in our ability to deliver effective treatment to the people who need it most.”

Professional Experience and Education: Hardin is a Professor of Counseling Psychology and Applied Human Development at the Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development.  He is also Dean Emeritus of the College, as well as Professor Emeritus from the University of Wisconsin School of Education.  Hardin  is serving as the Faculty Director for Character and Social Responsibility. His North Star is creating equitable access to high quality learning experiences for all children. His research foci include a) examining the strategies that individuals use to cope with cultural diversity with an interest on how those choices has an impact of behavioral (e.g., academic performance) and socio-emotional (e.g., college adjustment, wellness indicators, depression) indicators, b) exploring ways to implement an equity focused school-based  intervention with integrity and, c) understanding caring as a counterpoint to a polarized community by seeking to integrate the worlds of civic education, character education, social emotional learning, and equity in a way that centers an ethic of care, a focus on the development of one’s own and others character, and the building of caring communities in which our youth are raised and become leaders.

Hardin graduated from Williams College with a B.A. Hardin received his PhD in counseling psychology at Stanford University.

Why Mindyra?: “For almost 4 decades I have been engaged in the field of professional school counseling in both independent and public schools, as a school counselor and school counselor educator.  The role of a school counselor is to facilitate the development of children and adolescents to find a meaningful role in our civil society.  I believe that the services, particularly the assessment tools provided by Mindyra, can help us better understand and overcome barriers to optimal care for children.  Mindyra provides tools that support both individual and system wide change.”

Business Experience & Education: Bill held a variety of senior management positions at The First Boston Corporation, later called Credit Suisse First Boston, over a 30 year career. Before founding Mindyra, Bill was Managing Partner of two investment companies. Bill graduated from Williams College “Cum Laude” and from Columbia Business School where he was student president and awarded the “Outstanding Service Award” for his contribution to the school.

Why Mindyra?: “Members of my family have faced mental health and substance use issues for several generations. Experiencing the challenges of our healthcare system to access high quality care in a timely and affordable manner led me to think about the use of scalable technology to help people navigate the care system for the mental healthcare they individually need and deserve at a cost affordable by all. With the input of many very talented people, we are delivering on this vision now.”

Business Experience & Education:  Rick Moseley is Managing Director of LLM Capital Partners LLC since its founding in 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Moseley was CEO of Washington & Congress Managers, LLC.  Rick co founded Triumph Capital Group, Inc. in 1990 and was President from 1998 until 2003. He was previously a Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert and had prior experience with Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and Merrill Lynch White Weld. Mr. Moseley is Chairman of the Board of Verigon Inc. and has served as a Director of Abbey Healthcare, Allied Healthcare, Apria Healthcare, Inc., BORN Information Services, Box USA, First Communications, LogistiCare and Value Asset Management, among others, and as a board observer in other companies. Mr. Moseley is a graduate of Harvard College and received his MBA from Columbia University.

Why Mindyra? :“As an investor in healthcare companies over many years I was drawn to investing in and playing a Board role at Mindyra because Bill brought together a team that believed that science and technology together could provide access to mental healthcare options sufficient to serve an entire population in a scalable manner at significantly lower costs. It’s an exciting team doing things that will change the way great behavioral care is delivered and optimized over time. Corporations and membership organizations will be attracted to Mindyra because they can provide one place to go for care that drives a clinical and financial result that will be attractive to all constituents.”

Business Experience & Education: Board of Directors, Mindyra. Dave is recently retired. He was the previous owner and CEO of SIGCO, Inc., New England’s largest architectural glass and metal fabricator.  Prior to purchasing SIGCO in the late 1990’s, Dave had been CFO and Treasurer of Rogers, Lunt, and Bowlen Company. Dave is a graduate of Swarthmore College and received his MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College. He served on the Board of Swarthmore for four years.

Why Mindyra? :" Having run a company where I saw first hand the benefits of preventative healthcare services, and when executed well, the benefits to company employees, lesser turnover and productivity I saw Mindyra as doing exactly that in the mental healthcare space. In a world where there are literally a million options to consider, Mindyra sorts through it all with its proprietary tools and guides employees to the right solution for them at an affordable price and gives them feedback on the progress they are making. I am a significant investor in Mindyra because it has a unique skill set and can deliver both a clinical and financial ROI."

Business Experience & Education: Bryan held senior management positions in several consumer-product companies, including adidas, Phillips Van Heusen, and Swift Optics. Before founding Mindyra, Bryan was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Arc1, LLC, which provided strategic consultation and implementation for e-commerce and consumer product companies. Bryan graduated from Boston University and has completed advanced degree programs in computer science at Brown University and artificial intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management Executive Program.

Why Mindyra? “Having spent 20 plus years starting consumer products, software, and international  companies, I was excited to engage my technical, strategic and marketing expertise to take on the big challenge of helping people ‘navigate through the vast and vague sea’ of mental healthcare and find the best solution for them. I, and some family members have struggled with various mental health difficulties and have always wished for an app like Mindyra.”