Inner State Team
The Advisory Board
Bruce Vaughn
Airbnb Head of Experiences Creative and VR Advisor
Bruce Vaughn is the Chief Creative Officer of Dreamscape Immersive, the leading VR company in enterprise, education and entertainment.
He was CEO of Dreamscape for its first four years, overseeing the company from its inception.
Vaughn was previously Chief Creative Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering for The Walt Disney Company, for eight years. In this role, he led the integrated creative teams of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), Disney’s Creative Entertainment (DCE) and WDI Research and Development to drive excellence in product development and innovation. The scope of Vaughn’s responsibilities included theme park attractions and special effects, innovative theater experiences, and new business opportunities that leverage invented and emerging technologies. Disney’s Avatar land, Star Wars lands and Shanghai Disneyland are among the many projects he creatively oversaw.
Chris Van Dusen
CGO of Balanced Health Botanicals (BHB Marketing Advisor)
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Diana Rivas
Shroom Room Project Manager and Grower
Diana Rivas graduated in Mexico with a B. A. in Graphic Design. Pursuing her love for the arts, she designed the visual identities and collaterals of various temporary exhibitions as well as educational materials for Carlos Slim’s Soumaya Museum.
In 2011, Diana joined Maya Biosana to develop the corporate identity for its large-scale cacao operation. Moving into the corporate, she served as project manager, overseeing various teams for the infrastructure construction and government relationships for a 1200 acres plantation in the Yucatán peninsula.
Continuing her love of functional foods and wellness agricultural enterprises, two years later, she joined Ashley and Jim Walsh in their mezcal company, Kimo Sabe Mezcal. Diana has been serving since as COO for the Mexico branch of the award-winning better for you mezcal.
She has an avid curiosity about the human mind and emotions as well as consciousness and mental health. Following this interest, she gained her Core Energetics Practitioner Certification (a type of body-oriented psychotherapy). Combining these passions of wellness, therapy, and functional agriculture she will helm the Shroom Room as facilitator and project manager in Oregon.
David Matthews
MD. Science Advisory Board
David strives for human performance through physiological and psychological means, spending almost 10 years in the realm of peak human performance.
Dave has cut a wide swath of influence in the Human Performance industry, whether its working with Olympic and Professional Athletes on their Mental Fitness, or Biohacking with wellness influencers in Southern California. He has consulted with the Calm App, to provide Fortune 500 companies with Mindfulness, Stress management and Mental Fitness courses. The path for building Mental Fitness and Resilience originally led Dave to become a Master Resilience Trainer for the United States Army. Here his applied Performance Psychology career took off, teaching Resilience, Mindfulness, and Leadership to Soldiers across the U.S. Military. It was shortly after this that he took his talents to Southern California to be a more holistic wellness coach, becoming a personal trainer in Beverly Hills at Upgrade Labs. Helping clients establish metabolic health, holistic nutrition, and recovery techniques using the most cutting-edge technologies to “optimize” the human body. Learning how to leverage wearable technologies, workout programming, and health coaching practices, to “Biohack” a whole new level of mental and physical wellbeing for his clients.
Dave recently has been involved in the non-profit called the Institute of Neuro Innovation in Santa Monica, CA. where he is Director of Neuro-Integration.
Mauro Zappaterra
MD, PHD Chairman of the Science Advisory Board
He obtained his MD and PhD from Harvard medical school.
He is the director of multidisciplinary care and clinical research at Synovation Medical Group and is staff physician at the VA Greater Los Angeles healthcare system. He completed his PhD on the role of the Cerebrospinal Fluid in brain development while he was studying Craniosacral therapy and investigates the CSF as a potential fluid to convey source information to the body. He teaches mindfulness to patients with chronic pain. He has published numerous scientific papers, medical book chapters and books exploring topics of awareness. He researches and designs new programs and techniques to help alleviate pain, improve function, decrease suffering and increase quality of life.
Dr. Amir Vokshoor
M.D. Neurosurgeon Science Advisory Board
Dr. Vokshoor is a board certified neurosurgeon specializing in minimalistic brain and spine surgery. With over 18 years of dedicated surgical experience…
He has mastered the latest techniques in robotics and artificial disc replacements. Having served as chief of spine surgery at Providence Saint John’s Health Center, he has championed a cohesive and multidisciplinary path for the care of patients. He is the founder of Neurosurgical Spine Group, Neurovella Brain Spa and the Institute of Neuro Innovation, a non-profit research and philanthropy foundation dedicated to brain and spine health and recovery, with emphasis on the neuropsychological and mental aspects influencing healing. “The most gratifying privilege of a doctor is to see a patient recover from an injury or disease.” Adjunct Assistant Professor, John Wayne Cancer Institute; Spine Surgery Chief: Providence Saint John’s Health Center.
PUBLISHED IN: Southern California Super Doctors 2021, Southern California Super Doctors 2020, Southern California Super Doctors 2019, Southern California Super Doctors 2018,Southern California Super Doctors 2017, Southern California Super Doctors 2016.
Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz
M.D. F.A.C.O.G. Science Advisory Board
A Diplomat of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz received her medical degree in 1996 from the USC School of Medicine and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Gilberg-Lenz is involved in women’s empowerment and public education, and appears frequently as an expert in women’s health and integrative medicine on TV, in print and on-line. She completed her clinical Ayurvedic Specialist degree at California College of Ayurveda in 2010 and was board certified in Integrative and Holistic medicine in 2008. Dr. Gilberg-Lenz has appeared on Dr. Drew’s “Lifechangers”, The Tyra Banks Show, The Today Show, Headline News and Bill O’Reilly’s “No Spin Zone”. Dr Gilberg-Lenz is co-founder of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Green Committee and is deeply committed to the promotion of healing that involves individuals, families, communities and the planet. She and her family give back by devoting their time to charities including the Big Sunday Organization and Gramercy Housing Group.
VR PROJECT LEAD TEAM
Jennifer Magee-Cook
Lead Producer
Curtis Augspurger
Lead Producer
Jonathan Masterson
Auto-Gen Visuals / Audio
Mike Martikainen
Engineering Lead
Matt Hermans
Viz Development / Build