Health for Every Body.
10,000+ hours of innovation. 5+ patents.
1 mission.
Sky Christopherson
Founder, CEO
Sky Christopherson is an Olympic cyclist, world record holder, and multiple patent-holding innovator at the intersection of sport, technology, and public health. Featured in Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Outside Magazine, and the Financial Times, he is the inventor 7 issued core AI coaching patents that define the next frontier of AI-powered health and wellness.
Sky pioneered a data-driven model to set a world record and supported the U.S. Olympic team in winning Olympic medals, captured in the award-winning documentary Personal Gold. At the Paris Olympic Games, he announced GOLD, the consumer platform with the mission of helping everyone thrive.
Tom Gruber
Founding Advisor
Tom Gruber is the co-founder of Apple’s Siri, the first widely deployed intelligent assistant. As Siri’s CTO and head of design, he guided the product through its acquisition by Apple, a core feature used over a billion times daily.
For over four decades, Tom has pursued a singular mission: to use AI to augment human intelligence, not replace it. In 2024, he joined GOLD as a founding advisor to help build emotionally intelligent AI Avatar Coaches that combine behavioral science, real-time data, and human connection to deliver scalable wellness.
Stefan Groschupf
CTO Advisor
Stefan Groschupf is a multi-time AI founder and CTO Advisor at GOLD Health, guiding the architecture and strategy behind its personalized coaching platform. He founded Datameer, Automation Hero, and Centrum-AI, with over two decades building distributed systems and AI infrastructure.
At GOLD, Stefan ensures the platform is scalable, secure, and investor-ready, translating the company’s vision into a robust technical foundation that supports measurable health outcomes and rapid growth.
Yvonne Cagle, MD
Science Advisor
Dr. Yvonne Cagle is a physician whose pioneering research examines human health and resilience in extreme environments, including space. Her work on muscle loss, bone decline, and cognitive strain offers critical insights into the effects of modern sedentary lifestyles.
As a GOLD Health advisor, Dr. Cagle helps shape our AI Avatar Coaches to guide users toward more active, resilient lives—applying proven science to support mental health, vitality, and longevity, aligned with GOLD’s mission to make evidence-based health accessible to all.
Nataliia Karpenko
Product Advisor
Nataliia is former Meta and Advisor for Product at GOLD Health, connecting the company to Silicon Valley’s digital health ecosystems. With experience in healthcare strategy, startup development, user research, and product marketing at Meta, she brings expertise in positioning emerging technologies for broad adoption.
At GOLD, she supports product strategy, partnerships, and community engagement, designing workshops that unite Olympic talent, AI leaders, and early users to drive momentum and ensure the platform resonates with both consumers and strategic stakeholders.
Elizabeth Frances
Marketing Advisor
Elizabeth is Head of Brand & Marketing Advisory at GOLD Health, bringing over 15 years of experience driving growth for consumer brands across digital, retail, and content channels. From Sephora to Amazon, she’s led high-impact campaigns, influencer programs, and product launches for brands across wellness, lifestyle, and beauty.
At GOLD, Liz shapes brand storytelling and user engagement strategies that connect deeply and scale authentically. She blends strategic marketing insight with a creative edge—drawing from her work as a producer, actor, and elite freediver featured in NCIS, lead actress role in AMC’s the SON, and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor. Liz is known for turning ambitious ideas into compelling, high-performing brands.
Quincy Bergers
Movement Advisor
Quincy Bergers is a Level 1 trainer at Equinox and GOLD Health’s Workout Coaching Advisor, shaping the company’s training methodology and exercise programming. A respected performance coach, he specializes in evidence-based strength training, mobility, and sustainable body recomposition.
At GOLD, Quincy helps design workout protocols, coaching frameworks, and tests programs in real-world settings to ensure they are effective, accessible, and adaptable for users at all fitness levels, aligning science with practical results.
Sarah Townley, PharmD
Coaching Advisor
Dr. Sarah Townley began her career as a Doctor of Pharmacy, board-certified in Pharmacotherapy and Ambulatory Care, treating chronic conditions such as Type 2 diabetes and obesity. After more than a decade in clinical practice, she saw that medications often managed symptoms rather than addressing root causes. She shifted her career to become a Diabetes and Chronic Disease Reversal Coach, helping patients eliminate medications, restore metabolic health, and reverse Type 2 diabetes through lifestyle change.
Now, Dr. Townley is helping build GOLD’s AI Avatar Coaching platform, translating real-world coaching methods into a scalable, evidence-based system designed to deliver sustainable healing to millions.
Michael Ostrolenk, MA, MFT
Coaching Advisor
Michael Ostrolenk is a psychotherapist, relationship coach, and human optimization strategist with over two decades of experience helping individuals find deeper fulfillment in life, love, and purpose. His integrative approach blends somatic psychology, transpersonal theory, and cognitive-behavioral methods, combining emotional intelligence with practical tools for lasting transformation. He co-developed mental resilience programs with Navy SEALs and helped translate those elite practices into holistic health and mindset frameworks for the public, contributing to SEALFIT’s growth into a global brand.
At GOLD, Michael advises on the emotional intelligence of our AI Avatar Coaches, ensuring they embody empathy, presence, and unconditional positive regard.
Rich Yang
Sensing Advisor
Rich Yang is a metabolic health innovator and executive with more than 25 years of experience in biosensors, digital health, and commercial strategy.
As GOLD’s first biosensing advisor, he guided the pioneering use of CGM with non-diabetic athletes at the 2012 London Olympics, contributing to medal-winning performances and redefining elite performance tracking.
Now CEO of Biolinq, Rich has led a next-generation biosensing platform and raised over $300M to bring breakthrough wearables to market, and guides GOLD’s biosensing strategy, turning continuous biomarker data into personalized, actionable insights through the AI-powered platform.
Bao Tran
Patents & IP Attorney
Ben Dubin
Strategic Business Advisory
Michael Morris, MD
Pre-seed Investor. Physician & Cancer Survivor
David
Christopherson
Pre-seed Investor & Cancer Survivor
Philip Marshall
London based PE. Pre-Seed Investor. Advisor.
Reza Kazemipour
Revenue and growth strategies.