Mitch Ahlenius
Founder & CEO
Mitch Ahlenius’ career has centered on the international development of creative enterprise. In his time in South Africa, Mitch implemented sustainable business programs for NGOs in the Kwazulu-Natal region, teaching local entrepreneurs--both impoverished and well-established --how to diversify their craft, leverage informational resources, and access new markets. With this experience, he began The Union Co., an international online social retailer selling diverse goods from bicycles to high-fashion that supported social businesses all across the globe.
He has also worked on projects with Google, Nike, Microsoft, Fidelity Insurance, and Clorox on the development on brilliantly executed creative content that leverages viral phenomena and media to connect brands to consumers in new, authentic and engaging ways.
Mitch has consulted both startups and executives of Fortune 500 companies on developing creative and disruptive new business models that exploit new capabilities in a rapidly evolving competitive landscape to foster collaboration and creativity, ushering in a new era of abundance, discovery, and opportunity.
Mitch’s primary role in Feed is to make the evolutionary technical capabilities of Feed’s application manifest in a powerful, intuitive, and enduring consumer experience, creating new opportunities to cultivate economies of abundance, and to develop business relationships that promote new, creative, and productive use out of a new personal data asset class.
Will Lisbin
Founder & Chief Financial Officer
Will Lisbin has spent his career working on the financial side of the aerospace industry. With his background in Business Economics, Will has found a niche providing insight on the financials and business operations for space/flight projects at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The environment at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has allowed Will to develop and implement new methods to improve processes and reduce costs. Some of these major improvements included restructuring financial models to be more equitable for projects, streamlining personnel budgeting, and forecasting more efficiently for future demands. Aside from the metrics and analysis of the financial role, Will has found that creativity and outside-the-box thinking are necessities to approaching challenges and providing solutions to unique business and overall problems.
Outside of work, Will is an avid surfer and outdoorsman, constantly searching for new waves to be challenged by and new places to explore.
Geoffrey S.L. Shaw
Chairman & Founder
Mr. Shaw is a founder and the Chairman of Feed Inc. He is Feed’s principal business service product strategist. Mr. Shaw has over 30 years of domestic and international entrepreneurial and executive experience spanning technology development and commercialization, manufacturing, business development and operations, and finance.
He has held senior executive positions in defense, manufacturing, aerospace, and information technology industries. In 1986 Mr. Shaw and Dr. Peter Ossorio of the University of Colorado and Linguistic Research Institute, began reducing key elements of Ossorio’s State of Affairs methodology to repeatable commercial software technology. The State of Affairs state change model and analysis methodology, originally developed for strategic defense and intelligence applications, underpins PerspectiveComputing. Shaw led the commercial pursuit and implementation of government and industry funded initiatives exploiting the State of Affairs situation modeling methodology as CEO of Ellery Systems, Inc. Non- classified applications programs that exploited early Internet protocol and infrastructure resources included the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), NASA and European Space Agency mission planning and observation scheduling systems, and early Internet electronic bank payment -settlement systems. Ellery was the target of a foreign intelligence agency economic espionage operation in 1994. Mr. Shaw’s Congressional testimony was instrumental to the passage of the US Economic Espionage Act of 1996.
In 1996, Shaw & Ossorio founded Global Commerce Systems, Inc. to provide State of Affairs based secure identification and payment processing service over the Internet to financial institutions, manufacturers, and --government agencies. Mr. Shaw established Four Rivers Associates LLC in 1999 with Dr. Sydney V. Stern and Mr. J. David Fuchs to apply State of Affairs derived Trusted Information Systems technologies to manufacturing and other critical infrastructure systems in collaboration with the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Lockheed Martin, Ford, Chrysler, DOD, NGA, and DOT. Mr. Shaw continues to be a Partner in Four Rivers Associates. Mr. Shaw founded GRACE Research Corporation to commercialize the PerspectiveComputing Risk and Private Information Value Management platform with Sydney Stern and Stephen Overman in 2008. GRC was renamed MindMode Corporation in 2010. Mr. Shaw is the President and CEO of MindMode Corporation and the principal inventor of the patent pending technology, PerspectiveComputing.
Mr. Shaw is a graduate of the University of Arizona and a US Army veteran. He has served as a Commissioner of the Colorado Governor’s Science and Technology Commission, and on the Boards of the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, InfoTest International, and the National Information Infrastructure Test-bed.
Steve Lackey
Chief Architect
Steve has enjoyed an eclectic career, engaging in activities as wide-ranging as accountant, auditor, college instructor, small business owner, software developer and architect, investment advisor, market technician, hedge fund partner and trader, restauranteur, videographer, photographer and rancher. Steve was Director of Research at Ned Davis Research and Director of Product Development at Arthur Andersen’s Tax Technology Division.
Left brain and right brain certified, he brings to Feed a creative approach to building systems and businesses and a jocular yet unassuming manner that has always been his key to building teams.
Case Jemison
Founder & Director, Beta User Program
Case's career experience has led him to a unique crossroads of the music, communications, and technology fields. From branding and creative, to industrial marketing solutions, to STEM education and designing electronic instruments, Case brings an inquisitive, yet pragmatic inventiveness to all his endeavors. He is an avid follower of Electronic Dance Music and its role in the ever-changing digital music landscape of social media, live events, and new consumption platforms.
As a drummer, producer, and DJ himself, Case represents the artist's perspective in Feed.
Alex Cusack
Board Member, Business Development & Strategy
Alex Cusack is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University where he studied International Business and founded The University Exchange- an intra-campus commerce platform. After graduating, Alex joined Azusa Pacific’s team to work on New Business Development and Strategy and led a partnership with Coursera to establish South Africa’s first Learning Hub.
Alex then moved to San Francisco to work in education technology and served as a founding team member of Glean.co, a Product Designer with Servant Interactive, and a founding member of The Global Guild- a private consortium of Christian education institutions.
Alex has been cited on ideas.ted.com, Huffingtonpost.com, is contributing writer with MOOCs.com, and now actively advises education institutions, traditional and non, on campus and program strategy.