Our team combines 150+ years of collective expertise in behavioral health, prevention science, clinical research, technology, and public health, with the singular goal of making evidence-based mental health care accessible to everyone who needs it.
Team at a Glance
20+
Years in mental health prevention practice
25+
Academic and research institution partners
150+
Years combined team expertise
Founders
The team that started it all.
Resiliency Technologies was founded with a clear conviction: that prevention science, technology, and clinical care belong in the same platform.
President, CEO and Co-Founder
Robyn Hussa Farrell
President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Resiliency Technologies, Inc. Robyn has spent more than twenty years as a scientific practitioner conducting community-based participatory and suicide prevention research, translating that work into technology designed to bridge the gap between mental health awareness and clinical care.
COO and Co-Founder
Tim Farrell
Co-Founder and COO of Resiliency Technologies, Inc. Tim is an award-winning New York City news producer specializing in multimedia content creation and documentary filmmaking, with an emphasis on journalistic-style stories of hope and healing, and co-founder of White Elephant Enterprises.
Founding Engineer
Brian Painter
Founding Engineer of Sharpen and Director of Industrial and Systems Engineering for Tindall Corporation. Brian developed the Sharpen MVP in 2017 and has worked with Robyn and Tim across platform architecture, data analysis, and high-level systems design ever since.
Leadership Team
Clinical science, technology, and operational excellence.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Victoria Cosgrove
Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Cosgrove directs the StREaM Laboratory, focused on stress and mood in adolescents, and develops clinical interventions to minimize negative stress responses, with research extending to youth undergoing cancer treatment.
CTO
Bryan Dennstedt
CTO of Sharpen since 2018 and an accomplished CIO/CTO executive with deep experience in healthcare technology. Bryan's background spans telehealth, medical devices, patient engagement platforms, and large-scale technology migrations, with a focus on delivering high-level IT strategy alongside rigorous execution.
CFO
Salma Hatim
CFO of Resiliency Technologies and CEO of Prokonect. Salma is a CPA with experience serving businesses from startups to billion-dollar companies across multiple industries and accounting frameworks, including participation in two IPOs and leadership of ZIM, a nonprofit microfinance organization serving low-income entrepreneurs globally.
Director of Clinical Science
Jared Minkel
Clinical scientist and treatment provider working in digital health. Jared completed his Ph.D. at Penn and held research roles at Duke, UNC, and Brown before entering the digital mental health industry, where he focuses on designing and demonstrating the value of new products for public mental health.
Product Consultant
Beth Zalantai
Product Consultant with nearly a decade of experience improving access to quality mental health care. Beth began her career in community mental health as a psychotherapist and researcher before transitioning to product and UX design, where she has helped bring multiple digital health solutions to fruition.
CiSO
Terry Ziemniak
Cybersecurity leader called upon by Boards, investors, and senior management teams across healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing, and government to serve as a fractional CiSO. Terry brings specialized expertise in cybersecurity strategy and risk management to his advisory role with Resiliency Technologies.
Research
The researchers who turn data into evidence.
Research Assistant
Jen Levy, MPH
Researcher and Consultant with a Master of Public Health from San Diego State University. Jen combines her passion for mindfulness with mental health research, analyzing intervention data and writing scientific evaluations for Sharpen Mental Health Literacy and DTX projects.
Research Assistant
Melissa Legard
Digital Health Science Specialist with a degree in Neuroscience from Duke University. Melissa brings clinical research experience from Yale's Emergency Neurology department and a background in AI-based digital therapeutics, mixed-methods research, and mental health predictive intelligence to her work with Sharpen.
Research Assistant
Ileah Rios, MPH
Program Coordinator at the Center for Epidemiology and Population Health at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Ileah has served as a research assistant for Resiliency Technologies since 2023, currently evaluating the impact of the Sharpen suicide prevention program in a five-year NY Office of Mental Health study.
Research Assistant
Luis Tani, MD
Physician from the Philippines and MPH student at UC Berkeley concentrating in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Luis brings seven years of clinical experience in general practice and preventive medicine, applying epidemiologic methods and statistical analysis to Sharpen DTX platform data.
Research Assistant
Jeane YooJin Han
Second-year MPH student at UC Berkeley and Research and Data Intern at Sharpen. Jeane brings expertise in qualitative and quantitative data analysis across healthcare and technology sectors, supporting project evaluation, data management, and feedback on Sharpen's digital therapeutic interventions and platforms.
AI / Data Analytics
Engineering the intelligence layer.
AI Engineering Intern
Sai Pranay Gonuguntla
AI Software Engineering Intern at Resiliency Technologies and undergraduate Computer Science student at UC Berkeley. Pranay is building a recommendation engine for Sharpen DTX, integrating AWS infrastructure including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Personalize to deliver personalized mental health education content for child and adolescent populations.
AI Software Engineer
Krish Bala
AI Software Engineer and third-year Computer Science student at UC Berkeley specializing in AI systems and full-stack development. Krish is contributing to the Sharpen DTX AI recommendation engine, bringing expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, cloud computing, and a personal mission of socially good innovation.
AI Software Engineer Intern
Dhruv Syngol
Third-year Data Science and Economics student at UC Berkeley with experience at Fortune 500 companies across the full data science lifecycle. Dhruv brings expertise in data pipelines, AI governance research, and responsible AI to his work building Sharpen DTX's AI recommendation engine.
AI Advisor
Ainsley MacLean, MD
Harvard-trained, board-certified physician and neuroradiologist with over a decade of experience in healthcare operations, AI, digital technology, research, and leadership. Dr. MacLean served as Chief AI Officer and Chief Medical Information Officer for Kaiser Permanente's Washington DC region, where she practiced for 13 years.
Scientific Advisory Board
Guided by the field's leading voices.
Scientific Advisor
Duke Biber, PhD, NBC-HWC
Assistant Professor of Integrated Health Science, James Madison University
Assistant Professor of Integrated Health Science at James Madison University. Dr. Biber holds a doctorate in exercise psychology from Georgia State University and researches the impact of positive psychology on health behaviors, including physical activity, self-compassion, and mindfulness.
Scientific Advisor
Timothy D. Brewerton, MD, DLFAPA
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Brewerton is an experienced clinician, researcher, and consultant in the eating disorder and trauma fields, with board certifications in general, child-adolescent, and forensic psychiatry, and addiction medicine.
Scientific Advisor
Ashlee Davis, PhD.
Senior Research Associate, Georgia Health Policy Center
Senior Research Associate at the Center of Excellence for Children's Behavioral Health within the Georgia Health Policy Center. Dr. Davis is a physical activity and behavioral health researcher focused on monitoring and improving clinical services for children and youth in Georgia using community-based approaches.
Scientific Advisor
Natalie Fadel, Psy.D.
Associate Professor for Psychiatry and Neuro-Behavioral Sciences, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
Associate Professor for Psychiatry and Neuro-Behavioral Sciences at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Fadel is a licensed clinical psychologist with nearly a decade of graduate teaching experience, active research in behavioral medicine and student wellness, and deep clinical expertise in addiction, trauma, and eating disorders.
Scientific Advisor
Julie Gazmararian, PhD., MPH
Faculty, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University with over 35 years of public health experience as a health educator and epidemiologist. Dr. Gazmararian has more than 180 peer-reviewed publications and extensive expertise in health disparities, survey design, and health literacy research.
Scientific Advisor
Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D.
Vice-Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychology, University of California, San Francisco
Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC San Francisco. Dr. Hinshaw's work focuses on developmental psychopathology, clinical interventions with children and adolescents, and mental illness stigma, with over 375 articles, 13 books, and more than $40 million in research funding.
Scientific Advisor
Alex Karydi, Ph.D.
Director, State and Territorial Initiatives, Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Director of State and Territorial Initiatives at the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, the only federally supported resource center dedicated to advancing the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Karydi is a national public health leader with more than 15 years of experience scaling complex behavioral health initiatives.
Scientific Advisor
Bridgette Stewart, M.Ed., CWP, NBC-HWC
Chief Wellness Officer at University of West Georgia
Inaugural Chief Wellness Officer at the University of West Georgia, one of only five CWOs in higher education nationwide. Bridgette is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, active National Wellness Institute Board member, and Director of the Center for Integrative Wellness and Wolf Wellness Lab.
Scientific Advisor
Alexis Stoner, PhD, MPH
Discipline Chair for Epidemiology, Community and Public Health / Preventive Medicine, Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
Discipline Chair for Epidemiology, Community and Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Stoner holds a doctorate in instructional design and technology and an MPH, with expertise in designing, implementing, and evaluating educational interventions that improve health outcomes across diverse populations.
Mentors
The advisors who shaped the path.
We are grateful to the mentors whose guidance, expertise, and generosity of time have informed the growth of Resiliency Technologies and the Sharpen platform.
Sahab Aslam
John Busch
Paul Clark
Yehuda Cohen
Tim Keane
Patty Lavely
Dr. Bruce McNulty
John Neis
Jennifer Olson
Karen Teitelbaum
Tres Thies
Dr. Tom Van Gilder
Work with Us
Interested in research or partnership?
We partner with academic medical centers, health systems, and research institutions. Contact our team to learn more about clinical collaboration or platform implementation.
