Entrepreneurs
Beau Mann
Beau Mann is the founder and CEO of Sober Grid, a digital community offering personalized, easy-to-access resources for tracking and sharing sobriety progress with others as well as giving and receiving support. With a background in tech, Beau is an entrepreneur, social advocate, and benefactor for causes helping serve those with mental illness, substance abuse and other disadvantaged populations. He is currently building three new technologies specific for addiction healthcare: a learning health system, artificial intelligence that predicts relapses, and (co-developing) a product that uses Virtual Reality to help individuals with substance use disorders. He is the Principal Investigator on these three projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and serves as a Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation project where he is building a learning health system for addiction healthcare. Beau is in long-term recovery and enjoys conducting research to identify ways to use technology and artificial intelligence to help improve health outcomes through behavior modification.