Meet The Team

Founder & CEO
Josh Van Zak
Josh is a MIT graduate who has a passion for enabling people to build the world in which they want to live. Josh has done a postgraduate fellowship in systems biology at Harvard Medical School, received the Quest AI Award for Artificial Intelligence research, and led his own research at Yale University and the University of Cambridge. His research spans xenobiotic materials, international peace, and artificial intelligence, and his projects have been featured in DEZEEN Magazine, Netflix’s Abstract, the Wall Street Journal, the National Design Awards, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Centre Pompidou, and Smithsonian Museum. Josh is also an advisor to the Tangible Media Group at MIT, the Diagnostics Accelerator at Harvard, and the Engineering Innovation Group at MIT, and has been designated as a UNESCO Peace Fellow.

COO
Ernest Papadoyianis
Mr. Papadoyianis has more than 30 years of successful business experience in a diversity of industries, including over 20 years in the Agriculture industry. He has personally founded over twenty businesses including the first public company in the U.S. Aquaculture industry, and has held executive and Board positions in public and private companies, as
well as numerous industry groups and associations. He has been an international speaker on business development, technology, and sustainability, including engagements at the United Nations FAO in Rome, Italy, and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. His businesses and technologies have been featured on Discovery Channel, National Geographic Explorer, The Wall Street Journal, South Florida Business Journal, The Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel, Florida Trend magazine, as well as numerous industry specific journals.

CFO
Mark Darko
Mr. Darko is an Investment banker and an SME Finance expert with 17 years extensive experience in
investment management, international trade, credit management, financial risk management, and corporate finance. He is currently the President of Asian-African Chamber of Commerce & Industry - AACCI, a transnational chamber (Ghana chapter).
He is also a Senator in the World Business Angels Investment Forum. He was recently featured in Passion Vista Magazine and has received several global awards in governance and leadership, including the African Icons Award, 2021, Outstanding Young African Leadership Award 2021 and Sheikh Saqer Bin Mohamed Al Qassimi’s Private Office prestigious award 2020.