The founders have each experienced the dire need for alternative treatments for treating brain injuries, PTSD, and moral injuries. Watching the devastating, sometimes deadly, impact these invisible wounds have on individuals and their families, including future generations, motivated us to create Koterra to help close the gap and provide scientifically proven alternative treatments.
Chief Knowledge Officer, Foundation for the Study of Inflammatory Disease
Dr. Beckman has been building knowledge management systems most of his professional career, primarily in the Intelligence Community and DOD. He is currently helping to run the Clinical Trial researching TBI and PTSD in brain-injured wounded warriors. He is responsible for sustaining the national network of hyperbaric clinics as well as improving the technology platform for data collection and analysis. He is a former USAF KC-135 pilot and a Vietnam Veteran.
Dir, DoD Vertical Take-Off & Landing and Army Aviation SME, Cypress International, Inc
Shelley’s experience spans almost forty years in the military and defense aerospace industry. She retired from the Army after 30 years leading Army and Joint organizations, as well as advising the most senior executive leaders. Shelley is an expert in defense industry strategic planning, program & portfolio management, defense budget analysis, business development, and proposal review. She brings a passion to continue to serve others and serves on the Board of Directors for Homes For Our Troops (HFOT), the National Executive Board of the Army Aviation Association of America and on the AAA Scholarship Foundation Board of Governors. Shelley is also a life member of the Disabled American Veterans organization.
Jack Youngblood is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a five-time consensus All-Pro and a seven-time Pro Bowl selection and was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
Throughout his life, Jack has been consistently involved in charity work, starting in college, continuing throughout his NFL career, and remaining so today. Currently, Youngblood serves on the NFLPA Mackey-White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee.
In 2014 he opened the Jack Youngblood Center for NeuroEnhancement in Orlando, Florida, which purports to treat the symptoms of traumatic brain injury and offer care to patients in effort to restore normal brain function.
Chairman/CEO, Great American Broadband, Inc.
Executive Director, Pro Football Retired Players Association
Bob Schmidt is the Founder and President of the American Teleport Association (ATA); Charter board member of the World Teleport Association, Co-Founder and Board Member of Cable Satellite Public Affairs network (C-SPAN) and recipient of the President’s Award from the NCTA. Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Vincent T. Lombardi Foundation and past President of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the National Football Foundation and the Hall of Fame. Bob is also the Executive Director of the Pro Football Retired Players Association and is deeply involved in the effort to get healing treatments to football players and veterans suffering from TBI and the effects of concussions.
VP, Boeing
Pat Finneran is the Boeing vice-president and general manager for the overall F/A-18 program. He is a former naval flight officer who also has served as the company’s program manager for the AV-8B and for the production aircraft division, which included the AV-8B; T-45; F-15, and the St. Louis-build portion of the C-17 transport.