Our Team

Grant Renier
Founder / Chairman

Grant is an esteemed figure in the realm of artificial intelligence and offers his profound insights through engaging speaking engagements at corporations, forums, and conferences. With a career spanning over 50 years, Grant’s expertise in AI is centered on addressing a crucial gap: the need for more human decision-making and prediction functions in current AI systems. His pioneering work, represented by IntualityAI and its foundational concept, Intuitive Rationality, serves as the missing link toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Dr. Howard Rankin
Director of Science

Howard has Master’s and Doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the University of London, has an extensive background in psychology and neuroscience, and has worked with numerous global entities, including WHO and the NIH. He is the author of more than 35 scientific studies and 12 books and has appeared on CNN, ‘The View,’ ABC’s 20/20, and dozens of other television and radio shows. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, Dallas Morning News, and many other major publications.

Dr. Richard Ziskind
CEO Intuality Sports

Richard has advanced degrees in nuclear engineering and physics and is the founder and managing member of LCA Networks, a network design, implementation, and operations corporation serving the U.S. Armed Forces. He is the former Vice President of the Space and Defense Group of Science Applications International, a Fortune 500 technology integrator driving digital transformation in the U.S.

Peter Nannis
Chief Technical Officer

Peter specializes in software solutions and server-side support for data and live data distribution processing and management. He is the founder of minEpsilon Technologies Inc., DBA Bluewater Trading Solutions, which specializes in futures trading software solutions. He has vast experience in business technology deployment, such as Salesforce, Adobe Contact, Envisiontel, and iContact. Peter has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Linkoping Technical University (Sweden) and an MBA from UC-Irvine.

Michael Hentschel
CFO

Michael is a technology growth manager with over 30 years of hands-on corporate management, marketing/sales, and finance expertise. As CEO of TechVest Ventures, a venture accelerator group he founded in 1987, he holds strategic management and advisory positions in many client/portfolio companies, including assignments as President, CEO, COO, CFO, VP of Development, and VP of Sales. He has been an adjunct professor teaching Venture Capital, Technology Sales, and Innovation at various Executive-MBA programs, currently at High Point University (North Carolina).

Jim Blaylock
Advisor to the Board

Jim has worked with Coca-Cola USA and its Diet Coke rollout, and worked as a sales direction with Blue Rhino. He was instrumental in the company’s startup, IPO and eventual sale for $340 million.