Sky Christopherson
Sky Christopherson is an Olympic cyclist, world record holder, and motivational speaker whose work at the intersection of elite performance and technology has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, Wired, Outside Magazine, the Financial Times, and more. In 2015, he was voted 5th nationwide in the “Top 40 Under 40 in Healthcare Innovation.”
A former member of the U.S. Cycling Team and alternate for the 1996 Olympic Games, Christopherson won the 2000 Olympic Trials and made headlines in 2011 by setting a world record in the velodrome sprint using a pioneering “digital health” model inspired by Dr. Eric Topol. The previous record holder, Steven Alfred, was later banned for life due to doping violations.
In 2024, Christopherson launched GOLD at the Paris Olympic Games—an AI platform powered by the health, recovery, and performance insights of Olympic medalists, designed to make meal winning health, fitness, and wellness strategies accessible to all.
Tom Gruber
Tom Gruber is a product designer and entrepreneur who uses AI technology to augment human intelligence—individually and collectively. He was cofounder, CTO, and head of design for the team that created Siri, the first intelligent assistant for everyone. In 2010, Siri was acquired by Apple and remains central to the user experience across all Apple products. Today, Siri is used more than a billion times a day in dozens of languages around the world.
Tom’s professional career spans four decades, from graduate school during the classical AI period, through research at Stanford during the dawn of the Web, to founding a series of companies. Today, he continues his work as a speaker, writer, and impact advisor. Throughout his career, Tom has pursued a central question: How can technology help us live better lives? Applying ideas from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and human-centered design, his work explores how connecting people and machines can foster collaboration, learning, knowledge sharing, and effective action. Many of the innovations Tom created or influenced are now taken for granted, woven into the fabric of our digitally mediated lives.
Through GOLD Health, Tom is helping lead the effort to bring innovative, scalable public health solutions to market by uniting Olympic science with human-centered AI.
James Lockard
James Lockard brings a rare blend of experience across venture capital, mobile technology, media, and elite athletics. A former Wall Street and Silicon Valley venture capitalist, James transitioned into tech entrepreneurship where he co-founded Skybound Asia and led the development of two top-ranked apps on the App Store. His career has consistently centered on identifying cultural trends and turning them into high-growth, high-impact ventures.
James later applied his storytelling instincts to film and television, producing numerous episodic series and feature films—including Personal Gold, the behind-the-scenes documentary that chronicles the origin of GOLD. The film follows Olympians Sky Christopherson and Adam Laurent as they pioneered natural performance methods in the wake of Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal. James was also part of the Olympic Torch Relay and served with NBC Sports during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, reflecting a lifelong connection to sport and elite performance. As a former competitive skier, he brings firsthand insight into the mindset and needs of high performers.
Today, James is passionate about health, human potential, and longevity. As a leader at GOLD, he’s focused on scaling the company into a billion-dollar platform—merging Olympic wisdom, cutting-edge AI, and powerful storytelling to drive the next era of personalized health innovation.
Adam Laurent
Much of my early life was spent chasing a dream, rising through the ranks of cycling to become an Olympian and two-time World Championship medalist. At the pinnacle of sport, I realized that while performance tech was advanced, the human experience side was still underdeveloped — a gap that has guided my professional path ever since.
As a world-class athlete, I had the chance to work on global campaigns, contribute to R&D and industrial design, and engage in product and brand consulting. These experiences ultimately sparked my entrepreneurial drive.
I co-founded Optimized Athlete, a digital health company that led a human performance initiative resulting in medals at the London Olympics. That story became the award-winning documentary Personal Gold, which inspired the creation of Torchlight Media, a content company focused on wellness and human potential.
Driven by a passion for clean sport, I took a public stance against doping in pro cycling, choosing instead to pursue innovative, natural methods to reach the Olympic level. That ethos continues to shape my work today.
With a foundation in both performance and finance, I thrive at the intersection of analytics and human motivation. I believe story is the most powerful tool in business — especially in tech — where human connection drives engagement. That’s what makes GOLD so special: a company powered by Olympic-level innovation and a story that inspires global impact.
Ben Dubin
Ben is a Harvard Business School–trained venture capitalist, technologist, and entrepreneur with a deep passion for health, innovation, and equity. He is a founding board member of GOLD, supporting its mission to bring Olympic-level science and AI to public health at scale.
As Co-founder and Managing Partner at Asset Management Ventures for over 15 years, Ben led $100M+ in early-stage investments across IT, life sciences, and what he termed the Health Science Technology sector. He served on boards of most portfolio companies, helping transform bold ideas into impactful outcomes.
Earlier in his career, Ben co-founded two companies—Los Altos Technologies and Full Source Software—and held senior roles at Sun Microsystems, working under Eric Schmidt and later managing Enterprise Java. He also holds a patent in database recovery developed at Sun and began his engineering career at Lockheed Martin.
Driven by a personal commitment to health, fitness, and bridging inequities in public health, Ben also serves on nonprofit boards including the Computer History Museum, the Foothill-De Anza College Foundation, and the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California.
He holds dual B.S. degrees from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Rich Yang
Rich Yang is a seasoned innovator and executive in the medical technology space, with over 25 years of global experience in wearable biosensors, digital health, and commercial strategy. A named inventor on dozens of biosensor patents, Rich helped pioneer the field of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), beginning his career with the original team that launched CGM at Medtronic Diabetes. He later served in a senior leadership role at Dexcom, contributing to nearly a decade of growth that helped establish the company as a leader in metabolic health monitoring.
Rich was also the first biosensing advisor to GOLD, supporting its use of CGM technology in a groundbreaking application during the 2012 London Olympics—marking the first use of glucose sensors in non-diabetic athletes, which contributed to medal-winning performances. This early collaboration helped demonstrate the power of biosensing to optimize elite performance.
Today, Rich serves as CEO of Biolinq, where he has led the company through the development of a novel biosensing platform and raised over $200 million in capital to bring the next generation of continuous wearables to market. His work is driven by a passion to address the public health crisis of metabolic dysfunction through breakthrough innovation.
Recently named a finalist in EY’s 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year program, Rich continues to be a sought-after voice at health tech conferences. As a senior advisor to GOLD, he brings deep insight into sensor and device strategy—helping guide the platform’s vision to bring continuous biomarker data to life in meaningful, personalized ways for consumers through its AI-powered brand ecosystem.
Clyde Wilson, PhD
Stanford, Metabolic Science Advisor
Vince Voron
Former Apple. Branding & Design advisory.
Astronaut. Mars Mission Human Performance.
Yvonne Cagle, MD
Michael Morris, MD
Cancer Survivor & Physician
Founder Quantified Self
Gary Wolf
CDR Mark Divine
NAVY Seal & Human Performance
David
Christopherson
Seed Investor & Cancer Survivor
Wanhar Daeng Maro
Senior iOS Engineer
Philip Marshall
Seed Investor & GTM Strategy