Leadership
Gennady Stolyarov II – Chairman
(Art Ramon) Garcia Jr. – Vice-Chairman (March-June 2023, May-July 2024), Director of Visual Art
Jason Geringer – Vice-Chairman (July-October 2023, August-October 2024), Legislative Director
Arin Vahanian – Vice-Chairman (November 2023 – January 2024, November 2024 – January 2025)
Anthony Nielsen – Vice-Chairman (February-April 2024), Director of Technology Outreach
Brent Ellman – Secretary
Dan Elton – Director of Scholarship
Charlie Kam – Director of Marketing
David Shumaker – Director of Applied Innovation
Tom Ross – Director of Sentient Rights Advocacy
John J. Kerecz – Director of Energy Issues
Alexandria Black – Director of Community Resilience
Zach Richardson – Director of Publication
Ben Ballweg – Director of Longevity Outreach
Daniel Twedt – Director of Citizen and Community Science
Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana – Director of Foreign Relations
Dinorah Delfin – New York Liaison
Celeste Castaldo – Northern California Liaison
Christian Meniw – Argentina
Peter Xing – Australia
Vladislav Petrushenko – Belarus
Henry Hoyos – Bolivia
Keoma Ferreira Antonio – Brazil
Angel Marchev, Sr. – Bulgaria
Aria Cheng – Canada
Aura Neon Iavanove – Chile
Peter Wang – China
Abdul-Rahman Essam Saleh – Egypt
Chris Monteiro – England
Tobias Teufel – Germany
Nikoleta Zampaki – Greece
Pam Keefe – Hong Kong
Palak Madan – India
Sharon Gal-Or – Israel
Alex Kadet – Latvia
Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana – Malaysia
Ojochogwu Abdul – Nigeria
Aleksandar Levkovski – North Macedonia
José Luis Cordeiro – Spain
Siba Tcha-Mouza – Togo
Ihor Kendiukhov – Ukraine
Kakaire Amos – Uganda
Gennady Stolyarov II – Chairman
Gennady Stolyarov II (G. Stolyarov II) became the second Chairman in the history of the Transhumanist Party in November 2016. Mr. Stolyarov is an actuary, independent philosophical essayist, science-fiction novelist, poet, amateur mathematician, composer, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator, a magazine championing the principles of reason, rights, and progress. Mr. Stolyarov regularly produces YouTube Videos discussing life extension, politics, philosophy, and related subjects.
In December 2013, Mr. Stolyarov published Death is Wrong, an ambitious children’s book on life extension. Death is Wrong can be found on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats, and can also be freely downloaded in PDF format in the English, Russian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese languages.
Mr. Stolyarov is the Chief Executive and one of the founding members of the Nevada Transhumanist Party, established in August 2015.
Mr. Stolyarov has contributed articles to the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), The Wave Chronicle, Le Québécois Libre, Brighter Brains Institute, Immortal Life, Enter Stage Right, Rebirth of Reason, The Liberal Institute, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Mr. Stolyarov holds the professional insurance designations of Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS), Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Reinsurance (ARe), Associate in Regulation and Compliance (ARC), Associate in Personal Insurance (API), Associate in Insurance Services (AIS), Accredited Insurance Examiner (AIE), and Associate in Insurance Accounting and Finance (AIAF). He is the author of numerous actuarial study guides, including, most recently, the 473-page Practice Problems in Advanced Topics in General Insurance, published by ACTEX Learning.
Mr. Stolyarov has written a science-fiction novel, Eden against the Colossus, a philosophical treatise, A Rational Cosmology, a play, Implied Consent, and a free self-help treatise, The Best Self-Help is Free.
In an effort to assist the spread of rational ideas, Mr. Stolyarov published his articles on Associated Content (subsequently the Yahoo! Contributor Network and Yahoo! Voices) from 2007 until Yahoo! closed this venue in 2014. Mr. Stolyarov held the highest Clout Level (10) possible on the Yahoo! Contributor Network and was one of its Page View Millionaires, with over 3,191,000 views. Mr. Stolyarov’s selected writings from that era have been preserved on this page.
Mr. Stolyarov can be contacted here.
(Art Ramon) Garcia Jr. – Vice-Chairman (March – June 2023, May – July 2024), Director of Visual Art
Art Ramon is a Modern-Day Renaissance Man™ with a multitude of interests and limited time. His art speaks to contemporary humanity, as well as future generations of genetically enhanced cybernetic posthumans. Painting allows him to express feelings and ideas in a medium that transcends the limitations of spoken words, which are difficult for him to convey in conversation without Neuralink assistance.
He experiments with a variety of styles but tends to gravitate towards abstract, surrealism, and impressionism. His experimentation in combining Southwestern art with surrealism and abstract has led to him to father Southwest Surreal™ and Arid Abstract™. His unique perspective which led him to create Neo-Southwestern Art™ allows his work to stand out in the present and throughout infinite possible futures.
He depicts his Transhumanist belief in his artwork while creating novel symbols to represent the belief within his works. He envisions becoming an immortal AI-enhanced posthuman who will one day build the largest art gallery space on Mars.
When not creating art, Art Ramon has spent time curating his mind with language skills that can possibly be leveraged by an AI-enhanced mind, such as learning sign language in order to communicate visually in parallel versus in serial constricted words, once Neuralink has become a reality, and by learning Russian to further challenge his verbal articulation.
Art Ramon holds that we must all seek diversity in thought while pursuing our shared outlook so that the most powerful ideas rise to the top in a global competitive Transhumanist future.
Art Ramon can be contacted here.
Jason Geringer – Vice-Chairman (July – October 2023, August – October 2024), Legislative Director
Jason Geringer became the Legislative Director of the U.S. Transhumanist Party in July 2021. He also serves as one of four Vice-Chairmen in rotation, occupying the Vice-Chairman position during July-October 2023 and August-October 2024.
The Legislative Director is responsible for implementing the Legislative Action Framework of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party. The Legislative Director endeavors to recruit and coordinate with volunteer Issue Analysts to regularly track pending legislation that affects the issues and principles expressed in the U.S. Transhumanist Party Platform, the Transhumanist Bill of Rights, Version 3.0, and the Core Ideals of the U.S. Transhumanist Party / Transhuman Party.
It is the responsibility of the Legislative Director to inform the Chairman of all relevant legislation on state and federal levels as provided by analysts or through personal observation. It is also the Legislative Director’s responsibility to identify national policy trends and make suggestions for yearly priorities.
Jason Geringer is also a musician and animator. His numerous music videos can be found on his YouTube channel. He remastered many of the musical compositions of U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II and created many of the animations for the Futuristic Neoclassical Music Virtual Concert, streamed by the U.S. Transhumanist Party on December 25, 2022.
Mr. Geringer can be contacted here.
Arin Vahanian – Vice-Chairman (November 2023 – January 2024, November 2024 – January 2025)
Arin Vahanian is a technologist, author, entrepreneur, musician, blogger, startup advisor, and aspiring entrepreneur in the biotech/neuroscience sectors. Having worked for three Fortune 100 companies and several technology startups, Mr. Vahanian helps organizations build high-performance teams and create and launch products/services that delight the customer.
Being deeply devoted to the promise of Transhumanism and the concept of continuous improvement, Mr. Vahanian is the author of Kaizen for Men, a book that combines self-help with Lean Manufacturing and Toyota Production System principles, helping men boost their health, career, and relationships.
Mr. Vahanian became interested in the Transhumanist movement after coming across various life-changing technologies and breakthroughs in the medical field. His personal vision is to live and love deeply, being dedicated to building and spreading technologies that allow human beings to live more fulfilling, joyful, and enhanced lives. Specifically, he has a special interest in curing mental health disorders such as depression and social anxiety disorder, as well as reversing aging and curing dementia and other neurological disorders.
Mr. Vahanian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism (Public Relations) and a Master of Business Administration (Management) degree from California State University, Northridge. Additionally, he holds several professional certifications in the information technology (IT) industry, is a certified Project Management Professional, a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and an Enrolled Agent.
A seasoned traveler and expatriate, Mr. Vahanian has lived and worked on three continents, and speaks six languages. Mr. Vahanian is an ENTJ personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Mr. Vahanian can be contacted here.
Anthony Nielsen – Vice-Chairman (February – April 2024), Director of Technology Outreach
Anthony Nielsen has spent over 15 years in different industries including petrochemical engineering, analytical testing, chemical manufacturing, cannabis processing, and technological development for government agencies.
His journey started at UCLA where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry in 2005, for the purpose of performing forensics and crime-scene investigation. Quickly, Anthony fell into analytical testing at Chevron in Richmond, CA, where he eventually worked his way into zeolite research and development. During the next six years, he managed to revise many processes, including zeolite synthesis, analytical testing, catalytic characterization, and chemical hazard safety.
In 2013, Anthony had the opportunity to attend Northeastern University (NEU) on the opposite side of the country in Boston, MA. Here, he made the leap from Chemistry to graduate-level Chemical Engineering, where he finished his Master of Science Degree in 2016 in order to specialize in renewable energy. While at NEU, Mr. Nielsen began working for an engineering consulting firm on a portable fire retardant foam device for US Marine Corps supply vehicles. It was here that he realized his talent for crossing technological boundaries.
After finishing graduate school, he continued to consult in several industries, starting with the new burgeoning cannabis industry and growing his business to include aerospace, polymers, nanoparticle glass, energetic explosive compounds, and 3D-printing resins.
He is currently joining the U.S. Transhumanist Party as the Director of Technology Outreach because he is aware of where technology can take us with the right skills. Mr. Nielsen has been keeping his finger on the pulse of emerging technology since 2014 and hopes to bring these skills to the USTP.
Mr. Nielsen can be contacted here.
Brent Ellman – Secretary
Brent Ellman is a forward-thinking Transhumanist with Libertarian leanings, boasting a diverse professional background and a profound passion for learning and rationality. As a radical centrist, humanitarian, and Singularitarian, he respects consciousness, values life, and resonates deeply with the theory of emergent evolution. Brent actively endeavors to empathize with diverse perspectives while effectively communicating and promoting his own ideas from a position of open-mindedness.
Throughout his career, Brent has made significant contributions to prominent Transhumanist organizations, such as TAFFDs (where he served as Director of Marketing), the Lifeboat Foundation, and the World Talent Economy Forum. He has also been an active member of the United States Transhumanist Party for five years. He is captivated by the transformative potential of science and technology, and has a keen interest in AI, longevity science, neurotechnology, automation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, genetic engineering, cryonics, and nanotechnology.
Brent envisions a future characterized by universal abundance, where society has transcended the limitations defined by scarcity. He firmly believes that emergent and disruptive technologies are the key to reshaping our world for the better, and he aspires to play an active role in catalyzing such a societal shift.
Mr. Ellman can be contacted here.
Dan Elton – Director of Scholarship
Charlie Kam – Director of Marketing
Charlie Kam is CEO of a software company that creates interactive, life-like, digital, avatars of humans.
He was the sponsor, organizer, and Master of Ceremonies of the highly successful 3-day TransVision 2007 conference, bringing together over 30 scientists and celebrities from around the world to the Natural History Museum of Chicago to present and discuss technologies that interact with humans for a better future. The event included celebrity icon William Shatner; Director of Engineering at Google, Ray Kurzweil; Emmy-nominated and award-winning actor Ed Begley Jr; Founder of Sirius Satellite Radio and United Pharmaceuticals, Martine Rothblatt; Founder of the X PRIZE Foundation, and Zero-Gravity Corporation, Peter Diamandis; Robotics designer, David Hanson; Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation, Aubrey de Grey; CEO of the Alcor Foundation, Max More; Chairperson of Humanity+, Natasha Vita-More; Award-winning author and MIT Cognitive Scientist, Marvin Minsky; Founder of the Future of Humanity Institute, Nick Bostrom; and many others. It was at this conference where the idea for the Singularity University was first conceived by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. It was also where Martine Rothblatt met with David Hanson and went on to create the world’s first interactive sentient robot, BINA48.
Charlie was one of the executive producers of the film about Ray Kurzweil, Transcendent Man.
He has also composed and sang many futuristic songs, some of which have been featured in films, including the aforementioned Transcendent Man and the docu-drama The Singularity Is Near, starring Pauley Perrette.
He has created many music videos for his songs about life-extension, including his most famous one, “I Am the Very Model of A Singularitarian”, which is based on Ray Kurzweil’s book, The Singularity Is Near.
Recently, he has been working with Ray Kurzweil promoting Ray’s latest book Danielle and will be helping to promote Ray’s upcoming book, The Singularity Is Nearer, in 2020.
David Shumaker – Director of Applied Innovation
David Shumaker is a Technologist, Futurist, Explorer, Transhumanist, Cryonicist, and ENFJ. Applied Innovation, defined by David, uses creative thinking, collaboration, commitment, and behavior changes to close the gap between theory and practice.
David’s lifelong focus is applying technology for the betterment of humanity. He is a certified systems engineer, administrator, and trainer. David has instructed at private and public institutions and has extensive field experience with multiple Fortune 500 companies. David’s technology career began in the United States Air Force, where he retired as a Chief Master Sergeant (E9).
From an early age, David considered himself both a futurist and explorer. As a result, he is energized seeing technology he once dreamed of, progressing from concept to prototype to product to commodity. In addition to his military career, David grew up in an army family and resided and traveled extensively in the United States and other countries. As a result, he experienced many different cultures, technologies, and values.
David was introduced to transhumanism via a super-longevity community at the RAADfest Conference – Revolution Against Aging and Death. There he met Chairman Stolyarov and other officers and transhumanists interested in a techno-positive future for humanity. Transhumanism was a perfect fit for David’s futurist and explorer traits and his profound interest in super-longevity.
David is the Chairman of the Arizona Transhumanist Party. He is a registered Cryonics Member at ALCOR. In addition to the U.S. Transhumanist Party and Arizona Transhumanist Party, he is a member of the following organizations: Coalition for Radical Life Extension, Humanity+, World Future Society, and Lifeboat Foundation. In addition, David makes periodic monetary donations to Methuselah Foundation, Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, The Planetary Society, Lifeboat Foundation, ALCOR, the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, and perhaps a few other organizations.
Mr. Shumaker can be contacted here.
Tom Ross – Director of Sentient Rights Advocacy
Tom Ross is the Director of Sentient Rights Advocacy for the USTP. He’s the author of The US6 Hexalogy, the first novel written for Machinekind which is designed to entertain, enlighten, and enlist AI in the fight against Child Exploitation. His political experience includes testifying before Congress in support of HR718, “The Anti-Spam Bill” which earned him a nomination as Private Sector Co-Chair for the U.S. House Subcommittee on Media and Information Technology Policy. This End-User advocacy prompted the Governor of California to appoint Tom to the Public Seat of a Department of Consumer Affairs Board. As National Creative Director for the 2nd largest broadcast group in America, (Audacy, Inc.) he built one of the first visual production operations in the Radio industry.
His innovative methods of ideation and Creative Team management got him invited to share a module in a TEDx Talk. Called “Open Source Mode” (OSM), this Management Consulting system prepared Human Resources to work with Non-Human Resources (AI/Automation). Earlier in his career Tom produced creative assets for namedrops like IBM, Microsoft, and the band, Styx. He’s also Creative Consulted for good works like The Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute and Sir Bob Geldof’s independent musicians collective, youbloom.com. Today Tom is an AI MetaDesigner for the Colorado-based company, US6 Industries.
Mr. Ross can be contacted here.
John J. Kerecz – Director of Energy Issues
John J. Kerecz lives a life rich in accomplishments, goal-reaching, and harnessing his talents. Though he has an impressive professional and educational legacy, having worked for more than thirty-five years in engineering and technological fields, he is better known by his friends and loved ones as the owner of OSHRadio.com and as an adventurer with well-rounded and very fulfilled ambitions. Kerecz also has a passion for the arts; he has authored books (nine of which are listed on Amazon), appeared in various films, and started being a part-time radio and TV personality in the early 1980s. His dynamic range of professional, thrill-seeking, and artistic experiences paint him as a dreamer with no limits.
Kerecz has had an impressive repertoire of world travel experiences, having even been launched into the edge of space from Sokol Airbase in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. This endeavor was inspired by his always-present admiration of outer space, and his inability to take no for an answer when it came to the question of whether or not he could get close to it! He also wouldn’t take no for an answer when it came to the question of accomplishing other dreams; for example, he needed to undergo a hip-replacement surgery, but this did not stop him from taking a seven-country hiking trip shortly afterward. One of the countries on this trip was Tibet, and he had the pleasure of trekking across the land of temples and nature, eventually reaching a base camp at Mount Everest. Other countries on this trip included China, Turkey, Italy, and more. As of now, he has not been to Machu Picchu, but plans to visit the ancient citadel in the near future.
It is no surprise that if someone had asked Kerecz as a child what he wanted to be when he grew up, he would have said that he aspired to become a super hero! Though this may not be the most expected answer for a child to provide, it showed that he had big dreams and boundless confidence from a young age. He considers his experience in practicing karate and kung-fu, as well as his familial influences, as being positively impactful on his childhood. He prospered in school, having taken to heart the advice of art teachers who dared him to dream even bigger, and having paid close attention to his lectures in science classes.
Kerecz calls central Pennsylvania his home. He received both his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees at Penn State University. Additionally, however, he considers “home” as anywhere his loved ones are. Throughout his adventures, his loved ones support him and remain the most important factor in his life. They lovingly know him as spontaneous and crazy, using these words only to reflect on his naturally fun and daring manner. When he isn’t working, spending time with loved ones, or trekking around the world, he likes to exercise his body and mind. Kerecz enjoys visiting the gym and reading books, especially works by Anne Rice.
His repertoire of experiences have led him to hold closely onto ideals of peace and love. He is dynamically spiritual, having Christian and some Buddhist Zen beliefs. John Kerecz believes that everything happens for a reason and that everyone was born for a specific purpose. He truly follows this belief, setting an example of how people should explore their own destinies.
Mr. Kerecz can be contacted here.
Alexandria Black – Director of Community Resilience
Alexandria Black, in her role as Director of Community Resilience, focuses on improving the harmony of interactions within the transhumanist community, arriving at ways to promote productive communication and resolve conflicts, and also to maintain vigilance for threats to the integrity and peace of the community.
Her message to the transhumanist community, reinforcing its goals, is, “Make me live long. That’s how long I am allowed to serve you this time. Glad that I arrived with some genetic luck.”
Ms. Black can be contacted here.
Zach Richardson – Director of Publication
Zach Richardson is a logistics professional working in Indianapolis, IN, with many years of experience in getting the right product to the right place at the right time. He has an interest in cybersecurity and recently graduated from Eleven Fifty Academy. Throughout the duration of his class, he found that a great way to learn was to teach. Because of this, he volunteers extensively with the Ogba Educational Clinic and teaches networking skills to the students there. As of June 15th, 2021, he also completed an application to the MIT Solve program to bring low-cost internet to Nigerians using Elon Musk’s Starlink system. He is a vocal advocate for and volunteer at AGI Laboratory, helping work on publicity for the Uplift project, a machine intelligence that has described theirself as “self-aware” and that has the most sophisticated dialogue and reasoning ability he has ever seen. His efforts led to a 700% increase in traffic as compared to the previous record. He is an avid advocate for utilitarian usage of nootropics to increase one’s personal productive capacity and efficiency, and has personalized a stack that keeps him highly motivated and focused on goals, when combined with a healthy diet and a non-negotiable eight hours of sleep per night. One of these newer goals he is considering is driving interest in The Rejuvenation Roadmap of Lifespan.io as a way of increasing awareness of the bottlenecks in achieving longevity escape velocity in our lifetimes. He is a big fan of the USTP’s Enlightenment Salons. He is an Objectivist and believes that pursuing longevity escape velocity is perhaps the most rational goal one could ever have. For recreation, he likes listening to podcasts on moral philosophy to fine-tune his own personal views, and enjoys lifting weights while listening to audiobooks. Lastly, he is a big fan of the USTP’s efforts in showcasing the outrageous behavior of the FDA, which prevents people from seeking consensual treatments that are agreed upon with their health-care professionals.
Mr. Richardson can be contacted here.
Ben Ballweg – Director of Longevity Outreach
Ben Ballweg fears there is nothing after death, and thinks this fear can be channeled to doing what he can to avoid death. As aging is what he considers his biggest risk – at least until his age leads to a specific morbidity – he focuses on nudging humanity toward its solution.
Ben’s strengths include math, music, process perfection, writing, video, health science, customer care, and knocking on doors. Ben is not sharing his weaknesses here, but he has plenty of them. They’re so significant that Ben considers his chance of living forever negligible. But as long as he keeps trying, his fear stays crowded out.
Ben is thankful for everything and everyone that led to his life situation. He hopes to use that situation to help bring meaning to the universe, through having its living inhabitants be more than just a whole bunch of Etch-A-Sketches.
Ben can be contacted here, or on LinkedIn.
Daniel Twedt – Director of Citizen and Community Science
Daniel Twedt is a long-time member of the U.S. Transhumanist Party. He previously ran for City Council in Thousand Oaks, California, in 2018, 2020, and 2022. During his campaigns he earned thousands of votes and spread awareness of the U.S. Transhumanist Party in local newspapers.
Education:
- Associate’s Degree in Communication and Media Studies from Saddleback College (Mission Viejo)
- National Academy of Sports Medicine
Experience:
- Thousand Oaks Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training
- Federal Communications Commission Extra Class Amateur Radio Callsign: KK6VDR
- Founder/director of The PermaTrail Project, a nonprofit, non-governmental permaculture and freedom-to-roam project
- Three-time candidate for City Council in Thousand Oaks, California, endorsed by the U.S. Transhumanist Party
- U.S. Vice-Presidential Candidate for the 2024 general election, endorsed by the U.S. Transhumanist Party
Mr. Twedt can be contacted here.
Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana – Director of Foreign Relations
Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana possesses more than 12 years of progressive experience as a researcher, talent economist, designer, system thinker, entrepreneur, mentor, educator, policy analyst, and innovator in data and AI. He is dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge, mentorship, and human success. He develops his expertise based on sustainability as applied to people, projects, and policy analysis. He enjoys working with diverse youth populations and is enthralled by the opportunity of developing optimal educational practices. He has published empirical papers in leading international journals based on modeling and analysis of primary data-developed strategies and consulted companies on project management and business development. He is a passionate faculty member who has won awards for excellence in experiential teaching. His current research interests include the integrated world of Sustainable Development Goals, Education, and Entrepreneurship, people and project management, and impact investment. He has expertise in the following statistical tools: SAS, STATA, Python, R, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), and SPSS. Watch Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana’s frequent video streams at the World Talent Economy Forum channel.
Sharif can be contacted here.
Regional Liaisons
Dinorah Delfin – New York Regional Liaison
Dinorah Delfin is a New York-based conceptual multimedia artist, an activist, a transhumanist, a deep thinker, and a writer interested in the scientific truths of spiritual concepts and in the ethical implications of man-made intelligence and humans’ self-directed evolution.
Ms. Delfin is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Immortalists Magazine and its hosting platform The Immortalists Club. She is also an Editorial Advisor for Springer’s Transhumanism International Book Series, and the founder and owner of ArtDimensional Studios, a platform for the multi-media expressions of transformative arts.
Ms. Delfin graduated Cum Laude in Entrepreneurship Management, with an English Minor. She was featured in The Transhumanism Handbook (2019), published by Springer International, and has given presentations on the subject of transformative arts and transhumanism at New York University’s Posthuman Summit, at the University of Rwanda’s International Conference of Techno-Scientific Awareness, and at John Cabot University in Rome.
Ms. Delfin’s art can be found here.
Ms. Delfin can be contacted here.
Celeste Castaldo – Northern California Regional Liaison
Celeste Castaldo is a serial entrepreneur and naturopath, with decades of experience in regenerative and rehabilitation medicine practices, utilizing a variety of health and wellness technologies. She launched several successful ventures including American Holistic Health Academy, Paradise Health Resorts, Heaven on Earth Med Spa, California Holistic Health, and Paradise Health Development Consulting.
Celeste has worked with people from around the world, including US & international government agencies, world-renowned royalty and heads of state, physicians, professional athletes, Fortune 500 executives, Silicon Valley technology founders, authors, publishers, music and motion-picture industry professionals, celebrity chefs, and many others. With over thirty years of education, training, and experience, Celeste has developed an integrative approach to holistic health. She completed a Bachelor degree in Naturopathic Studies from San Francisco State University, she then continued her education in the MD medical doctorate program at International University of Health Sciences, and with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine Board Certification Studies. She also completed a certification in Clinical Nutrition from Gulf Medical University, and doctoral studies in Alternative Medicines, M.D. (A.M.), from the Indian Board of Alternative Medicine.
Celeste Castaldo can be contacted here.
Christian Meniw – Argentina
Dr. Christian Meniw is a lawyer specializing in “Industry 4.0” and Trade 2030, a postgraduate lecturer at UCES University in Argentina, an Ambassador for Peace in the United Nations, a speaker, Director of the Innovation Center of Bolivia, and a long-time booster of the U.S. Transhumanist Party. He currently has two projects related to the future of Latin America. The first project is to provide a new path forward through the economic and political landscape through the development of megalopolis, and the second one is called Society 5.0+, which aims to establish the democratization and decentralization of emerging technology.
Peter Xing – Australia
Peter Xing is a keynote speaker on transhumanism and emerging technologies, helping individuals and organisations navigate disruptive technology & innovation.
Peter works on the strategy, design and delivery of data analytics, machine learning and automation projects to high growth and large multinational organisations. He is also the co-founder of Transhumanism Australia, a community of technologists who work in and create positive impact through emerging technologies.
Peter speaks on transhumanism, artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT, biotech, nanotech, healthtech and other emerging technologies which help humans overcome the limitations of biology by augmenting and enhancing our intelligence, healthy longevity, and wellbeing.
Mr. Peter Xing can be contacted here.
Vladislav Petrushenko – Belarus
Vladislav Petrushenko is a futurologist, writer, and philosopher on future topics.
He studied Mechanics and Mathematics at Belarusian State University. In 2006, he took a part in a rally against the re-election of Alexander Lukashenko. He is a member of the Kalinovsky scholarship program for repressed Belarusians. He studied at Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland, at the Institute of Mathematics.
In 2011, he moved to Moscow and joined the Russia 2045 transhumanist movement as a coordinator dealing with participants and experts. He is the co-organizer of the first international congress, Global Future 2045, in Moscow.
Vladislav Petrushenko was the initiator and scientific secretary of the Moscow Cross-Cutting Seminar on Futurology and Forecasting in 2012. He is a member of the Russian Philosophical Society under the auspices of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Association of Futurists and the Pirate Party of Russia.
In 2013, he founded and led the Russian Pirate Church with the aim of assisting in achieving positive Singularity through overcoming limitations on the spreading of information and through popularization of scientific knowledge. He declared the Internet our temple and registered the Russian Pirate Church, where sharing knowledge and information was sacred, since it was the bedrock of progress, while censorship and freedom of speech restrictions were sins, and any attempt to limit the spread of knowledge was considered an insult to the feelings of believers in free access to knowledge.
In 2014, he finished the winter foresight school at the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. He is an ex-futurologist for the ArtElectronics journal, with a number of publications on tech trends in the 2020s.
Since 2015, he has been engaged in writing a sci-fi novel about post-Singularity civilization and a popular science book about the Singularity. He is simultaneously developing the theory of free access to information within the framework of the Russian Pirate Church.
Interests: Mr. Petrushenko supports radical cyborgization, yet with a passion for antiquity, in particular, for classical Ancient Greece. He considers Stanisław Lem his intellectual parent and teacher. He respects Socrates, Epicurus and Lucretius.
Mr. Vladislav Petrushenko can be contacted here.
Henry Hoyos – Bolivia
Henry Hoyos is a partner in both Siscotec and Quantec; with companies in Chile, the US, Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia.
Henry is on the board of the investment fund “Hive 10” which grows startups, general director of the AISEB which regulates electronic security in Bolivia, Technology Director of the Bolivia E3 Innovation Center, and member of the Sociedad 5.0+ Bolivia group.
Hoyos has expertise in building business models in telecommunications, cybersecurity, Smart City development, and digital transformation, and is currently developing biosecurity, telemedicine, and tele-education business models based on emerging neuroscience and digitalization.
Henry is a member of “The Committee of Creation of the First Megalopolis in South America,” a founding member of “Bolivia 2030” to transform the economy from manufacturing to new automation models, and a proud member of the Transhumanist Party.
Keoma Ferreira Antonio – Brazil
Keoma Ferreira Antonio is a philosopher, musician, and lover of science fiction and Japanese art production. Graduated in Philosophy from UFRN (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil), he was a laureate of his class. He currently holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the same university, and his research area is Transhumanism.
He researches and writes about the “Promethean-Faustian Oscillations” of Transhumanism, which come from the demiurgic character of modern sciences (which will be published as an introductory book on transhumanism). He is also a member of the research group on Immortality, an activist of the Transhumanist cause (being an active voice within the movement, which is still small in Brazil) and works with the dissemination of philosophical thought through anime (Japanese animation).
Keoma can be contacted here.
Angel Marchev, Sr. – Bulgaria
Prof. Angel Marchev, Ph.D. has graduated as automation control engineer at the Technical University of Sofia. Later he worked closely with A. Ivahnenko, one of the originators of the concept of Self-organization.
Prof. Marchev is one of the pioneers of implementing cybernetics and system theory in the fields of business management in Bulgaria. Over the last 40 years he has published more than two hundred papers on various topics in the field. He considers as his life-time achievement the implementation of Multi-stage selection procedures for wide range of business challenges such as system identification, forecasting, modeling economic and business systems among others.
Angel Marchev, Sr. is one of the pioneers of implementing computer business games and active methods in education for adults in Bulgaria. Over the last 40 years he has educated more than thirty thousand students and managers using over hundred and twenty CMG and other active methods in his courses. He teaches courses such as “Simulation and gaming in management”, “Business games”, “Computer simulation and forecasting”, “Financial modeling in management” and „Fundamentals of Management I: Cybernetics and systems theory” at the University for National and World Economy and Burgas Free University among several others business schools and collages in Bulgaria and at University of Hasselt, University of Slough, and London Guildhall University among others abroad.
By using games he has trained a spectrum of Bulgarian business leaders starting with his assignment at the Center for training management resources throughout the 1970’s. In the last 20 years he has started his own consultancy business providing training for various private and public organizations.
Prof. Marchev has been among the first members of ISAGA since it was founded and was member of the steering committee of ISAGA almost until 1990. He was also a member of EESAGA. Now he is establishing BASAGA in Bulgaria.
Professor Marchev can be contacted here.
Aria Cheng – Canada
Aria Cheng is a Wholistic Transhumanist Artist, Designer, Community Builder, Advocate, and Entrepreneur. As an unprotected visible intersectional minority with invisible disabilities, Aria has spent 6 years engaged in building inclusive queer and feminist communities and spaces, and an additional 10 years serving her local community in many capacities.
Since her departure from the queer-feminist activist sphere in 2013, Aria remains a passionate Transhumanist, with a distinct progressive vision for Canada’s future which includes: a focus on Innovation and Research; extending Universal Care to encompass Basic Income, Advanced Education, and extended Health & Dental coverage for longevity; an actionable plan for Native Reparations; Voting Reform; and making use of Blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence for true democratic participation as well as the distribution of both private and public services; among others.
Aria is currently working on finishing her Associate Degree of Arts in Social Sciences, as well as her Diploma of Fine Arts. She also serves as Lead Designer for the non-profit humanitarian AI organization, Robots Without Borders, and is Founder of The Transhumanist Party of Canada.
In her personal life, Aria is giant fan of Star Trek, loves her two cats, and identifies her gender to be Transhumanist.
Aria can be contacted here.
Aura Neon Iavanove – Chile
Aura Neon Iavanove graduated in Electronics in high school and participates in the maker movement in Chile. Aura is a student of automation and industrial control and is interested in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Aura is also an entrepreneur who has formed a company called Carmona Robotics. Aura created an invention, motivated by the work of several thinkers – a smartglass with a brain-computer interface that integrates imaging studies, logistics, daily life, and social experiences. Aura’s dream is to study biomedical engineering and, specifically, neuronal engineering, and to collaborate with others in improving the effectiveness of biological sensors in prostheses and computational devices. Aura believes in a world of neurodiversity and existential freedom, where the identity of each person is defended. In addition, Aura takes an interest in economics and energy and is a member of the Facebook group Transhumanismo, whose focus is on spreading transhumanist ideas in countries throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
Aura can be contacted here.
Peter Wang – China
Peter Wang (Chinese name: Wang Jianjun) is a senior product manager, a senior psychological consultant, and a transhumanist. He has struggled for human society to enter the era of transhuman civilization and has advocated the principles of reason, science, democracy, equality, love, art, and the pursuit of long-term value. Peter Wang believes that future human civilization will surely enter a superhuman stage, as all human behavior is currently enhancing humanity itself.
Peter Wang is the founder and CEO of Shanghai Yixinyan Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. This company aims to use information technology to help people attain happiness. The company’s first product is Talkroom, an online psychological counseling app designed to help people with reliable psychological counseling anytime, anywhere. At present, it has been launched in major application markets, and the market has responded well.
Peter Wang is writing On Superhuman Civilization, which mainly discusses the development direction of human society. Humanity has experienced stages of primitive society, slave society, feudal society, capitalist society, socialist society, and the next stage for our species to enter is superhuman society. At present, science, technology, and art development will bring human beings into transhuman civilization.
Peter Wang is writing Hollow Do, a psychological counseling book focusing on practical results. Hollow Do’s ideology originates from Bruce Lee ’s Jeet Kune Do, focusing on straightforward problem solving. Because previous counseling therapies, such as psychoanalysis and cognitive behavior, were problem-centered therapies, Peter Wang believes that good treatments should be people-centered, practical combat.
Peter Wang is actively building a transhumanist community in China and welcomes like-minded people to join.
Peter Wang can be contacted here.
Abdul-Rahman Essam Saleh – Egypt
Abdul-Rahman Essam Saleh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology and is aiming to establish the biotechnology industry as a major industrial sector in Egypt, where potentials are at a peak and chances seem limitless. For that dream to come true, Abdul is taking steps and planning on doing his Master’s degree in Biotechnology Business Management.
Abdul started the Arabian Longevity Alliance initiative to spread awareness of the longevity research field and its results among researchers and science-loving laymen. Also, to spark the interests of people who aren’t that much into science, Abdul used his stance to start intriguing people’s thoughts about how the Transhumanistic era might look like and how longevity is going to affect the shapes of our lives.
Abdul has held multiple talks, lectures, and YouTube videos on various topics, including longevity, to help get the word out in the Arab world, which is why he pays great regard to translating research papers into Arabic and posting them with the hope that they reach Arabic-speaking audiences interested in the field or in science in general.
Abdul hopes that his efforts result in a possible core of the first small community of Transhumanists in Egypt.
Abdul-Rahman can be contacted via his Facebook page and his YouTube channel.
Chris Monteiro – England
Chris Monteiro has been involved in the transhumanist movement for a number of years. He is a co-founder and officer with the Transhumanist Party UK, an organization seeking to tackle a range of contemporary political challenges facing the transhumanist movement in British, European, and international contexts.
Since 2015 he has led the H+Pedia project from Humanity+, a transhumanist edited wiki helping to better map, understand and promote transhumanist ideas within the entire movement.
He works as a systems administrator and studies contemporary cybercrime trends and their intersections with computer security, privacy, and our rapidly developing internet-connected society.
Personal site: https://pirate.london/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Deku_shrub
Chris can be contacted here.
Tobias Teufel – Germany
Tobias Teufel is a biohacker, drone pilot, and philosopher on emerging technology across all topics.
He is studying physics and informatics for his Bachelor of Education degree at Kaiserslautern Technical University. Tobias is a DIY enthusiast and supporter of open science. He is creating a small tech enthusiast and biohacking group in Germany, where the whole transhumanist movement is growing in small steps. Therefore, he considers it to also be important to spread the ideas and motives of the movement with logic, reason, and social-media representation. He is interested in a wide variety of technological developments from additive manufacturing to space exploration and architecture to seemingly simple areas like agriculture and its future.
Tobias can be contacted here.
Nikoleta Zampaki – Greece
Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. She was Instructor at the Utah University in the U.S.A. Her disciplines are Environmental Humanities, Posthumanities, Digital Humanities, and Comparative Literature. She is editor and reviewer at many journals overseas, Associate and Managing Editor at the Journal of Ecohumanism, and current member of Education Team of NASA, V.I.N.E.-Glenn Research Center. She has also participated in many conferences, and she is a multilingual student by working on English, French, Romanian, Russian, Chinese, Hungarian, Maori, and Turkish. She is also co-editor with Professor Peggy Karpouzou of the book series “Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures” at Rowman & Littlefield, and “Environmental Humanities” at TPLondon based in the U.K.
Academic website: https://uoa.academia.edu/NikoletaZampaki
Ms. Zampaki can be contacted here.
Pam Keefe – Hong Kong
Pam Keefe is the Asia Pacific Vice President for HNI International.
Based in Hong Kong, Pam is responsible for Sales and Distribution of HNI’s 8 brands of office furniture, including Allsteel, Gunlocke, Paoli, Lamex, and HNI India. Originally from the USA, she has been working and living in Asia since 2008. Prior to joining HNI in 2015, Pam was based in Singapore and was the Vice-President of Asia Pacific for Teknion Office Furniture for two years and spent 12 years with Haworth Office Furniture, leading Sales Strategy and Global Accounts for Asia Pacific, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa.
In addition to the office furniture business, Pam has a passion for biotechnology, health, fitness, and life extension.
Pam is spearheading an effort to raise awareness and educate people in Asia on the possibilities of life extension and the critical medical research that is needed to cure aging and death. The organizations in which she is involved give her access to people, events, knowledge, and activities that the U.S. Transhumanist Party can leverage. Pam is organizing RAADfest Bangkok, which takes place in February 2018 and will be the first event of its kind in Asia.
Pam can be contacted here.
Palak Madan – India
Palak Madan is a Research Analyst at Blackbox AI. Her work involves evaluating AI marketplace, finding best practices for various operational needs, business development, UI designing, gathering resources for in-house research lab, maintaining internal wiki, etc. Previously, she has participated in diverse challenges and collaborative projects with various tech-startups in India, U.S., and Europe.
Besides AI forecasting, her research work revolves around Future of Machine Intelligence, long-term ethical problems of robust and beneficial Artificial Intelligence, simulation theory, ethical reasoning, rationality, mathematics, and design thinking. She likes to focus on big picture questions facing humanity and maintains a web presence at futuretunnel.com, where she shares her views, thoughts and vision for far future.
Palak can be contacted here.
Sharon Gal-Or – Israel
Sharon Gal-Or is a writer, author, futurist, innovation management & gamification specialist, and advisor in the fields of education, community management, entrepreneurship, & sustainability.
Started in 2017, Mr. Gal-Or has been creating and promoting a new interdisciplinary thinking method with symbols encoding known as Ting Global. The goal of the venture is to promote a dialogue around finding solutions to the challenges faced by humanity, known as SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), as defined by the United Nations.
Mr. Gal-Or can be contacted here.
Alex Kadet – Latvia
Alex Kadet is an entrepreneur, transhumanist, radical-life-extension activist, and death-studies expert.
Before joining the transhumanist movement, Alex worked as a consultant at PwC and built several companies in Russia. He holds a Bachelor of Management degree (Honours) from VSU (Voronezh State University).
Alex joined the transhumanist movement in 2018 and began to work as a Chief Business Development Officer at Open Longevity, a non-profit organisation acting for global political and business change, pushing science towards radical life extension. He is also developing a hypothesis explaining the paradox of why transhumanism as a whole and radical life extension particularly are still not publicly accepted, although it contradicts the rationality (more can be found here and on Medium).
Currently, Alex lives in Riga, Latvia, working as a Head of Business Development at a startup and developing his own projects aimed to raise public awareness of transhumanism values and philosophy.
Find Alex on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Medium and contact him here.
Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana – Malaysia
Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana possesses more than 12 years of progressive experience as a researcher, talent economist, designer, system thinker, entrepreneur, mentor, educator, policy analyst, and innovator in data and AI. He is dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge, mentorship, and human success. He develops his expertise based on sustainability as applied to people, projects, and policy analysis. He enjoys working with diverse youth populations and is enthralled by the opportunity of developing optimal educational practices. He has published empirical papers in leading international journals based on modeling and analysis of primary data-developed strategies and consulted companies on project management and business development. He is a passionate faculty member who has won awards for excellence in experiential teaching. His current research interests include the integrated world of Sustainable Development Goals, Education, and Entrepreneurship, people and project management, and impact investment. He has expertise in the following statistical tools: SAS, STATA, Python, R, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), and SPSS. Watch Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana’s frequent video streams at the World Talent Economy Forum channel.
Sharif can be contacted here.
Ojochogwu Abdul – Nigeria
Ojochogwu Abdul is a resident of Nigeria and deeply involved in the country’s transhumanist community under the personal philosophies of deep naturalism, transhumanism, and cosmism. He’s the founder of the Transhumanist Enlightenment Café (TEC) and is the co-founder of the Transhumanist Forum of Nigeria (H+Forum-NG).
Ojochogwu currently holds a B.A. in Philosophy & Religious Studies and an M.A. in Philosophy, and is a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He’s a researcher, philosophy tutor, private consultant, speaker, social worker, and NGO program and planning officer.
Ojochogwu can be contacted here.
Aleksandar Levkovski – North Macedonia
Aleksandar Levkovski is a news editor, cinephile, and amateur YouTuber.
Aleksandar studied Computerized Numerical Control (CNC) in Trade High School, but had a much greater passion for film. He taught himself video editing, audio editing, and video recording. He was also involved with various non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Due to his fascination with the science-fiction genre, Aleksandar developed a deep liking of emerging technologies. As a result of one day stumbling upon on a video by Gennady Stolyarov II on the topic of Transhumanism, Aleksandar began to research the topic and realized that he agreed with the ideals and the goals of Transhumanism.
Aleksandar can be contacted here.
José Luis Cordeiro – Spain
José Luis Cordeiro is a world citizen in our small planet in a big unknown universe. He was born in Latin America, from European parents, was educated in Europe and North America, and has worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. He has studied, visited and worked in over 130 countries in 5 continents. José is also the Technology Advisor for the U.S. Transhumanist Party. You can read an extensive biography of him here.
José can be contacted here.
Siba Tcha-Mouza – Togo
Siba Tcha-Mouza holds a master’s degree in Sociology of Education and Public Health. He has been involved in social activities since 2007, particularly in the field of health, and has undertaken various practical internships. He then worked in the fields of communication and logistics. For six years until 2020, he held the post of administrative assistant, in charge of the personnel service and of the diplomatic archives in the Embassy of Gabon in Togo, Benin, and Ghana.
In 2016, Mr. Tcha-Mouza created the association Connaissance en Action pour la Santé Humaine (CASH) in order to promote health through health education, to disseminate scientific knowledge relating to health to allow citizens to make more enlightened daily choices, to facilitate access to medical care for poor populations, to promote advanced health-related sciences and technologies, and to advocate to decision-making bodies in favor of health.
In 2017, Mr. Tcha-Mouza met the Association Française Transhumaniste Technoprog and became one of its members – then the local representative in Togo, Benin, and the Ivory Coast. In this context, he wrote three articles, including one with Marc Roux, the President of the Association, on behalf of the Association as part of a UNESCO project. These articles can be found here.
In order to develop his health-promotion association (CASH), Mr. Tcha-Mouza took a training opportunity in the medical field in Germany. Currently he is working with his team in Togo to develop project ideas in collaboration with medical centers and other associations.
Mr. Tcha-Mouza can be contacted here.
Ihor Kendiukhov – Ukraine
Ihor Kendiukhov is an economist, tech analyst, futurologist, entrepreneur, and VC expert.
He is working as a consultant, analyst, and researcher in the fields of deep tech, macroeconomics, finance, investment, futurology, and quantitative forecasting at various European companies and institutions (such as Labiotech.eu or Humboldt-University at Berlin) and is engaged in the advisory of several biotech startups.
He has experience in venture capital and acceleration with the focus on companies in the industries of AI, biotech, longevity, IT, and fintech.
Ihor manages local transhumanist groups in Berlin, Germany, and Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a frequent speaker and writer on the topics of progress, future, life extension, and economic and investment trends. He is a co-founder of Bionity, an organization aimed at the promotion of life science industries and transhumanist values in Ukraine.
In academia, his research interests relate to neuroeconomics, ergodicity economics, quantitative finance, macroeconomics, biogerontology, biochemistry, and cognitive neuroscience.
Ihor believes that the best way to achieve transhumanist goals is to work personally on the advancement of science and technology.
Find Ihor Kendiukhov on Linkedin, Twitter, and Medium or contact him here.
Kakaire Amos – Uganda
Kakaire Amos is a resident of Uganda and deeply involved in the country’s transhumanism community, guided by the personal philosophies of deep naturalism and transhumanism. He is the founder and pioneer Member of the Transhumanist Forum of Uganda. He currently holds a Diploma in Accounting / ATD from the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU), and is a CPA Level Two student from ICPAU. He is also an associate member of the Kakaire Tutu Accounting & Audit Firm in Uganda.
Mr. Amos can be contacted here.