Ian is an entrepreneur, inventor, meditator and lover of all. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BA in Mechanical Engineering. After starting his own company, Orange Yogurt, while in college and working on a startup, Novid, for one of the professors, Po-Shen Lo, at his university, he decided to try something different and head to Nepal on a "spiritual journey". After attending a ten day silent retreat, living at a temple, traveling around with a Yogi, visiting various caves and spiritual sites, he eventually returned to the US where he gradually became interested in applying his spiritual understandings to his entrepreneurial pursuits. He started a non-profit, Ramaa, and continues to work at an AI therapy/meditation startup while he tinkers with various inventions of his own creation and maintains his semi-newfound yoga and meditation practice.