Quinn Kennedy
Dr. Quinn Kennedy earned a PhD in Psychology and completed postdoctoral training in Cognitive Aging, both at Stanford University. She is the Director of Aging Research at neuroFit. Previously, Dr. Kennedy was a Research Associate Professor and Director of the Healthcare Modeling & Simulation Education Programs at the Naval Postgraduate School, where she was the recipient of the Richard Hamming Interdisciplinary Research Achievement Award. Dr. Kennedy’s 20+ years of research in adult aging has been recognized through multiple awards, grants, and peer reviewed journal publications including Psychological Science, Psychology of Aging, and Journals of Gerontology. With her collaborators, her work has been featured on Channel 2 news, NPR, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Science. Dr. Kennedy is a popular speaker on healthy cognitive aging and is a guest contributor to Psychology Today.
Rick Weiss
Dean Kelly
Dean is a successful entrepreneur based in New York where he is focused on both operating and investing in the Health/Wellness and Longevity space. He is currently the Co-CEO at Extension Health, a premium advanced longevity clinic based in New York. Dean is an active board member of YPO Metro New York and also sits on the Global Health and Wellness board of YPO with a focus on healthy aging. He is also a Venture Partner at Pari Passu Venture Partners, a VC focused on early and growth stage investments in Health and Wellness, AI, Defence and consumer tech. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Gainful which is the US's leading personalized nutrition platform and now sits as an advisor to the board. Previously Dean was on the executive team at Zola and earlier ran the $400m+ pet supplies category across the US for all of Walmart's ecommerce channels after Walmart acquired Jet where Dean was an early GM. He has co-founded three global start up companies (HeyLets, Zanui (acquired) and Orbirental (acquired)), and is an active angel investor with over 25 investments across Health and Wellness, Ai, CPG, Consumer Tech, Longevity, Healthtech, Defence and SAAS. After completing both a Finance and Law Degree at UNSW, he began his career as a Senior Strategy Associate at Booz and Company, was the Head of Strategy at Football Federation Australia, and the Corporate Development and Strategic Partnerships Manager in Malawi at the William J Clinton Foundation
Susan Roddy
Ms. Roddy is a senior member of Houlihan Lokey’s Consumer, Food & Retail Group, leading the firm’s Consumer Health and Personal Care practice. Her focus areas include health & wellness and personal care, including women’s health and intimacy, healthy aging and mom & baby.
Ms. Roddy has nearly two decades of corporate finance experience, with a particular passion for advising high-growth consumer brands. Her recent work includes the sales of Zesty Paws to H&H Group, Nuun to Nestlé Health Science, SmartyPants to Unilever, Care/of to Bayer, and Zarbee’s to Johnson & Johnson. She also has significant expertise in corporate carve-outs and divestitures, as well as contract manufacturing and private label across sectors.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Ms. Roddy worked in Corporate Strategy & Development at PepsiCo, where she led deal execution in Europe and was responsible for executing the company’s strategy to expand into good-for-you and better-for-you food & beverage categories. Prior to that, she worked in Investment Banking for Deutsche Bank and as an accountant for Ernst & Young.
Ms. Roddy holds a B.S. in Accounting from Bucknell University and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. She was previously a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Pennsylvania (expired).
Mark Lacey
Susan Paquette
Javier Guirola
