• Reza Kazemipour

    FOUNDER & CEO

    Reza Kazemipour, a seasoned senior executive with over 20 years of global experience, has deep understanding and experience working on of business strategy ranging from startup, investments to the boardroom. His determination and focus on process definition, sales & team management, business development, operations and corporate vision has proven to be a viable environment to raise venture capital funds as well as to negotiate multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions. Kazempiour’s US Naval training cultivated his drive, intensity and strategic foresight which propels his career to stay ahead of the pack.

    Instinctively at the forefront of technology, Kazemipour is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Sixth Ring , the world’s first Gen AI system designed specifically for health and wellness, utilizing comprehensive Olympic data. This innovative platform leverages the extensive performance metrics, training regimens, and recovery strategies of elite athletes to create personalized wellness plans for individuals at all levels.

    He has proven the value of leading by example and is a board & advisor to many startups from Silicon Valley to around the globe. He also enjoys mentoring teams from various accelerators on recruitment, enablement, go-to-market, and execution of growth opportunities to get to funding or revenue.

    Being an avid runner and health enthusiast, Reza Kazemipour puts the same amount of energy into his advisory roles and business endeavors becoming an essential part of the team.

  • Sky Christopherson

    FOUNDER & CTO, Innovation. Olympic Athlete & World Record Holder

    Sky Christopherson (born January 19, 1976)[1] is an American entrepreneur, Olympic cyclist, world record holder, and motivational speaker. He has been covered by Fortune,  Forbes,[2] Sports Illustrated,[3] Wired, Outside magazine, the Financial Times, and other publications. In 2015 he was voted 5th nationwide in "Top 40 under 40 in Healthcare Innovation” and recently launched an artificial intelligence company at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games called GOLD AI, the world’s first AI language model built using Olympic medal winning health and fitness secrets for consumers.

    An member of the U.S. Cycling Team, an alternate on the 1996 Olympic Team, and winner of the 2000 Olympic Trials,[5] Christopherson is known for breaking a world record[6] in 2011 in the velodrome sprint, notably using a ‘digital health’ model inspired by Dr. Eric Topol.[7] The previous holder of the record, Steven Alfred, subsequently received a lifetime ban for performance-enhancing drug use.[8]

    Christopherson founded the $8million dollar software platform Vicaso in 2007,[9] and the biometrics and big data health company Optimized Athlete in 2012.[10] whichhelped the underdog 2012 women's cycling team win medals at the London Olympics when Lance Armstrong and the men’s team were banned for drugs. The story was featured in the feature documentary Personal Gold: An Underdog Story (link, reference)

    Most recently, he founded GOLD AI, the world’s first artificial intelligence platform bridging Olympic medal-winning advice for consumer health and fitness, was launched at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at a special launch event hosted by the World Olympians Association. GOLD AI has notable advisors including Tom Gruber, cofounder of Apple’s Siri. The company is part of an initiative called Sixth Ring, a company co-founded by Christopherson, Reza Kazemipour, and Adam Laurent, which is on a mission to connect the inspirational power of the Olympic movement with the general public for improved health outcomes.

  • Adam Laurent

    FOUNDER & CFO. Olympic Athlete

    Much of my early life was spent chasing a dream, and I ascended the ranks of the cycling world to become an Olympian and two time world championship medalist. Seeing the athletic world from some of its pinnacles, i realized early that as iterated as the technical side of performance was, there was still much room for improvement on the human optimization and experience side. This has guided much of my professional efforts since those days. 

    As a world class athlete, opportunities unfolded to be both talent and creative on global marketing campaigns, along with participation in product and brand consulting, research and development, industrial design and manufacturing. Ultimately, it unlocked my entrepreneurial gene, leading to my own business efforts.

    I co-founded Optimized Athlete, a digital health and performance company, which generated and led a human performance project that yielded medals at the London Olympic Games. This project begot the film festival winning documentary, Personal Gold, which captured the story of those efforts and outcomes. Those media efforts culminated in establishing Torchlight Media, that creates and delivers original content that inspires the world toward positive change, particularly around wellness and human potential.

    I energize my work with a commitment to optimizing the human experience contained within my projects. I am ultimately a student of human potential and how it's realized from motivation to performance. Additionally, a background in finance has shaped a full array of analytic skills. My sweet spot is nimbly engaging both the business metrics and the human components of commerce, which makes for a potent combination when aimed at marketing. 

    Story is no small part of my approach to business, and story is what ultimately moves markets toward your products. In the world of tech, human stories stand as the true catalyst of engagement. Sixth Ring is a rare company formed at the confluence of ground breaking technology coupled with incredibly strong story telling ability, coupled with an amazing story to tell.