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Our Founders<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

We built this for our grandkids \u2014 and their grandkids. Four founders, and if you\u2019re reading this, you probably know at least one of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Max<\/figure>
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Max Lee \u2013 President<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Runs the company day-to-day and leads how Olamis reaches schools and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Max<\/summary>\n

Max oversees end-to-end operations for Olamis\u2019s K-12 solutions across all 50 states, leading the cross-functional teams that design, deliver, and support the platform for public districts, private schools, and homeschool families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over more than 35 years in technology and operations, he has directed large-scale global programs \u2014 including a worldwide industrial-automation initiative and the industry\u2019s first AI-driven coffee-blending knowledge system \u2014 and held leadership roles at Procter & Gamble, Apple, and vTx, running multi-site, multicultural operations. He holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Philip<\/figure>
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Philip Mullins \u2013 Chief Technologist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Built the program and invented the technology behind all 34 patent applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Philip<\/summary>\n

Philip is a technology executive and former IBM inventor with more than 30 years across military communications, enterprise wireless, and AI. During fifteen years at IBM he served as a Field CTO for major utility clients and Competency Principal for Pervasive Computing, and led the U.S. Utilities WatsonX Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He holds five issued U.S. patents, earned IBM\u2019s Inventor First Plateau Award, and was recognized inside IBM as a \u201cWild Duck\u201d \u2014 its term, dating to Thomas Watson, for nonconformist inventors \u2014 for advances in RFID direction detection, wireless-LAN optimization, and distributed bandwidth sharing. Certified in Cognitive AI and Trustworthy AI & Ethics, he is the inventor behind the Olamis platform and a champion of accessible, transparent, ethical technology.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gary Wilhelmi \u2013 Chief Scientist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Three decades of work on how people learn \u2014 the science inside the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Gary<\/summary>\n

Gary is an engineer and systems architect whose career has focused on replacing conventional approaches with engineering frameworks that deliver measurable results. Over four decades he has designed mission-critical systems across defense, aerospace, and intelligence \u2014 including triply-redundant flight controls for the F-18, laser targeting systems, and fiber-optic infrastructure supporting U.S. intelligence operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After co-authoring The Invisible Element<\/em>, he spent fifteen-plus years in education, engineering learning environments as deliberately as technical systems \u2014 his students earning repeated national success in NASA\u2019s HUNCH program. That work led him to create Human Conditions Engineering\u2122, the scientific and engineering foundation beneath Olamis AI.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rolf Smith \u2013 Chief Strategist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Brings his 7 Levels of Change method to the team, our partners, and schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Rolf<\/summary>\n

Colonel Rolf C. Smith Jr., USAF (ret.), has spent six decades at the intersection of technology, cognition, and human performance. His Texas A&M master\u2019s thesis produced one of the first computer-chess programs to compete in U.S. championship history, and his doctoral research extended AI into military decision systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1985 the Air Force Chief of Staff tasked him with making the service more innovative; he created the first military Office of Innovation in U.S. history \u2014 work recognized with the Legion of Merit. He is the author of The 7 Levels of Change<\/em>, adopted as the textbook for Disney University\u2019s Creativity & Innovation class, and founder of the School for Innovators, whose 500+ graduates span Fortune 500 companies and military commands. His multi-day Thinking Expeditions have served executive teams at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Chase Manhattan.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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