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About Stuart Samuel Diamond
Stuart Samuel Diamond has lived parallel lives as an artist, entrepreneur, and academic — each feeding into the creation of the Optimal Trust Framework, a system for measuring and operationalizing trust across individuals, organizations, and societies.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Haverford College in philosophy and music, with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence, Diamond first emerged as a composer in New York’s East Village, pioneering electronic music and new modes of performance. His work, recognized for its originality and audience impact, was supported for six years by the Criterion Foundation.
In parallel, he pursued an entrepreneurial career. As co-founder of Empowered Media and Empowered Medical Media, he was at the forefront of the digital media and online marketing revolution. He worked with major defense contractors, Fortune 500 companies, human rights organizations, and the United Nations, while also consulting with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on counter-terrorism strategies. As editor-in-chief of Empowered Doctor, he oversaw thousands of health-related news stories and the production of the National Physician of the Year Awards. Independently, he created educational programs for Wall Street on the nature of trust and the financial system — work that led directly to the development of Optimal Trust in collaboration with top financial firms.
Diamond has also lived a parallel life in academia. He has served as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, bringing the value of the liberal arts to colleges across the United States, and for nine years was a Trustee of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco.
Across these domains — music, business, and philosophy — his work has consistently sought one unifying theme: that trust emerges from the deepest layers of our shared humanity. Whether expressed through art, forged in enterprise, or examined in philosophy, trust is the element that allows human beings to cooperate, to build legitimacy, and to create systems that endure.
Optimal Trust is the culmination of that search: a framework that makes this universal force measurable, actionable, and alive.
Istvan Sleder, Chief Technology Officer and Data Scientist
Istvan Sleder is a data scientist, machine learning engineer, senior software engineer in high performance computing, embedded systems, computer vision, robotics, and deep learning. His expertise includes enterprise class system architecture, multi-process, multi-threaded applications, distributed, parallel and real time computing, including machine learning algorithms.
Recently he has been principal researcher, responsible for development of sense and avoid technology and computer vision algorithm for object detection, localization of aircraft, drones, orbital space craft and debris in a ground-based and on-board embedded systems utilizing deep learning and probabilistic algorithms.
Shaun Mader is President of Optimal Trust.
Shaun is a creative strategist, innovation practitioner and systems thinker. He has worked with a range of leadership development companies and tech companies, developing new approaches to facilitating the scaling of learning and development. Shaun’s primary interest developing new ways for technology to empower the development of human skills in the workplace to improve performance.
Zeze Peters is our Chief Strategy Officer.
Zeze is a Cornell educated Rocket-scientist and former Director of Product engineering, who spent the last 10 years making simple solutions to complex problems in Applied AI, eCommerce, Consumer goods and Big data systems for Fortune 1000 companies. He is the founder & CEO of Beam.city, a company making the one Ads platform to rule them all, by using AI to publish and optimize ads with an aim to enable ads that come to you with the perfect solutions to your problems before you even search, while maintaining privacy. Beam.city grew revenues 21 times in the last 9 months, and Zeze is a Black Innovation Fellow at the DMZ, Canada's top accelerator
Arthur Kane is the Founding Director of the Center of Ethics at St. Thomas University.
Under his leadership and vision The Center was established in 2000 through a generous gift from the Joseph and Marilyn Sciortino Family Foundation. Art was previously a Jesuit priest, who worked in Jamaica. After leaving the priesthood he joined the Faculty of Philosophy at St. Thomas University
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