Levon Demurchyan
Levon is a game production professional with 7 years of experience leading gamedev teams. Specializes in AR/VR. Certified Scrum Master and an MBA candidate at BU Questrom School of Business.
Formerly VR Team Lead at ARLOOPA, Inc. | Formerly Producer, Co-founder at Binary Quasar Studio
Erik Delorey
Erik Delorey is a CX Leader in Digital Transformation, Automation and Business Optimization. Passionate about technology adoption, Erik helps companies overcome the fear of change and mitigate the risk of failure through quality controls and oversight. He promotes world-class automation techniques that focus on user experience and intent based success. Expert in the whole project life cycle for agent assistive technologies, Erik holds a Master’s in Business Administration, as well as being an active Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Timur Meyster
Timur Meyster is a founder and Chief Product Officer at Career Karma. Career Karma is the easiest place online to find a job retraining program. Since launching in 2018, Career Karma has rapidly grown to over 3 million visitors per month and a team of remote first 200 employees.
The company's mission is to help modern day workers find training programs and acquire skills in software engineering, design, data and cyber security. Timur started his career as a software engineer and as a leader at Career Karma has scaled Product, Data, Customer Success and Phone teams.
Feyzi Fatehi
Feyzi Fatehi is a technology visionary, inventor, innovator, and entrepreneur. He was named among the top 10 most inspiring business leaders to watch in 2020 and the recipient of the 2019
CODiE Lifetime Achievement Award, an award previously bestowed on Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and Paul Allen, among others. As an inventor of the first real-time database, and a Silicon Valley veteran, Feyzi currently serves as the CEO of Corent Technology – a company that was named among The Most Disruptive Private Companies for its invention of “Software Defined SaaS®” platform and was recently featured in Forbes.
Feyzi studied at Cambridge, Princeton, UT Austin, and UCLA, and has given talks at Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, CalTech, and at industry events around the globe. He serves as an advisor to the UCLA Anderson School of Management, UCI Samueli School of Engineering, and the Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Dan Selz
Dan Selz is a Senior Impact Manager at XPRIZE, where he leads the Alumni Network of over 200 teams from ten past prizes, helping them grow to scale both during and after the competitions. He also leads impact work for active prizes including XPRIZE Rainforest, XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing, and XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion, bringing together ecosystems of partners to help the technological breakthroughs of the competition translate into massive real world impact. Before this role, Dan was a Lead Prize Designer, creating new prize designs, predominantly in our environmental domain.
Dan joined XPRIZE after earning an MBA at the USC Marshall School of business where he was awarded the Chaltiel Scholarship and inducted into the Beta Gamma Delta honor society and earned certifications for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. His career before XPRIZE spanned the globe, bridging entertainment and politics, and included writing a Bollywood movie in Mumbai, India and leading presidential campaign turnout efforts in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
Travis Parr
Travis Parr has over 21 years of experience in the Venture Capital Business, highly diversified in healthcare using AI and machine learning to provide solutions. Currently, Travis is focused on his new venture Guard Dog Solutions, an extremely disruptive cybersecurity AI-driven Plug-and-play (PnP) device (first-in-industry), which proactively prevents ransomware, malware, hacking, etc. at both the enterprise level and remotely such as employees working from home, public Wi-Fi, hotels, convention & sports arenas, etc.
Mr. Parr also serves as President & Managing Director of Parr Enterprises, LLC., a private venture capital and business consulting company. The Parr Group currently holds investment positions in 11 different businesses.
Travis founded and sold 2 pharmacogenomic virtual healthcare lab test businesses, Navigator Genomics™ and OnlyYOU® Autism.
Mr. Parr was an early investor in China and took 3 Chinese companies public in New York exchanges, plus 1 in Tokyo.
Feyzi Fatehi
Feyzi Fatehi is a technology visionary, inventor, innovator, and entrepreneur. He was named among the top 10 most inspiring business leaders to watch in 2020 and the recipient of the 2019
CODiE Lifetime Achievement Award, an award previously bestowed on Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and Paul Allen, among others. As an inventor of the first real-time database, and a Silicon Valley veteran, Feyzi currently serves as the CEO of Corent Technology – a company that was named among The Most Disruptive Private Companies for its invention of “Software Defined SaaS®” platform and was recently featured in Forbes.
Feyzi studied at Cambridge, Princeton, UT Austin, and UCLA, and has given talks at Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, CalTech, and at industry events around the globe. He serves as an advisor to the UCLA Anderson School of Management, UCI Samueli School of Engineering, and the Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Dan Selz
Dan Selz is a Senior Impact Manager at XPRIZE, where he leads the Alumni Network of over 200 teams from ten past prizes, helping them grow to scale both during and after the competitions. He also leads impact work for active prizes including XPRIZE Rainforest, XPRIZE Rapid Covid Testing, and XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion, bringing together ecosystems of partners to help the technological breakthroughs of the competition translate into massive real world impact. Before this role, Dan was a Lead Prize Designer, creating new prize designs, predominantly in our environmental domain.
Dan joined XPRIZE after earning an MBA at the USC Marshall School of business where he was awarded the Chaltiel Scholarship and inducted into the Beta Gamma Delta honor society and earned certifications for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. His career before XPRIZE spanned the globe, bridging entertainment and politics, and included writing a Bollywood movie in Mumbai, India and leading presidential campaign turnout efforts in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
