Advisory Board

Sections:

Business Advisors

Mike Motta

Founder/CEO of Plus One Fitness; Former President of IHRSA

Mike Motta is the Founder, President, and CEO of Plus One Fitness, the world's leading corporate wellness management company.

Motta has over 28 years of experience in the fitness and wellness industry. From 2004 to 2008, he was a member of IHRSA's Board of Directors where he served as chair of the Standards Committee. Motta is currently a member of the Senior Leadership Development Council and the Fundraising Committee for Health Promotion Advocates.

He is also a member of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Advisory Board for their School of Public Health, a disaster relief volunteer for the American Red Cross, and volunteer firefighter. Before founding Plus One, Motta was a professor of Physical Education and football and lacrosse coach at SUNY/Albany. In March 2010, IHRSA awarded Motta with the Dale S. Dibble Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the fitness & wellness industry.

Under Motta's leadership, Plus One was named one of Inc. magazine's fastest-growing private companies for the past three consecutive years. In addition to transforming employee lives and wellness cultures of Fortune 500 companies nationwide, Plus One has been integral in providing a culture of growth and opportunity for its own employees. This culture has allowed the company to continue to expand despite the recent economic downturn.

Science and Technology Advisors

Dr. William Haskell

Founder/Deputy Director, Stanford Ctr. for Research in Disease Prevention

William Haskell, PhD, is a professor of medicine (active emeritus) in the Center for Prevention Research and the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, School of Medicine at Stanford University.

He has been a member of the Stanford University faculty for the past 35 years, with primary interests in the prevention of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disease. Dr. Haskell's major research interests and activities include development and evaluation of objective measurements of physical activity in free-living populations. Using sensing devices and mobile phones for data collection and processing, Haskell's areas of focus include wireless accelerometers, altimeters, heart rate, skin temperature/heat flux and breathing rate monitors. Dr. Haskell's research is funded by the National Institute of Health and conducted in collaboration with scientists at MIT.

Dr. Haskell is also Director of the Stanford Heart Network, an Internet-based patient and health professional support system. The network assists community-based cardiovascular disease prevention/treatment programs implement more effective heart attack and stroke prevention initiatives. Haskell has authored over 80 publications related to physical activity and cardiovascular disease and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Health Fitness Corporation.

Dr. Stephen Intille

Technology Director, House_n Consortium (Wearable Computing), MIT

Stephen Intille, PhD, is Technology Director of the House_n Consortium at MIT.

His research is focused on the development of context-recognition algorithms and interface design strategies for ubiquitous computing environments and mobile devices. He is currently developing systems for preventive health care that support healthy aging and well-being in the home by motivating longitudinal behavior change via mobile phones. He received his PhD from MIT in 1999 working on computational vision at the MIT Media Laboratory, an S.M. from MIT in 1994, and a B.S.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.

He has published research on computational stereo depth recovery, real-time and multi-agent tracking, activity recognition, perceptually-based interactive environments, and technology for preventive healthcare. Dr. Intille has been principal investigator on sensor-enabled health technology grants from the NSF, the NIH, foundations, and industry. A special focus of Intille's current work is exploring how to create tools for common mobile phones that permit longitudinal measurement of health behaviors for research, especially the type, duration, intensity, and location of physical activity, and tools for common mobile phones that motivate healthy behavior.

Benjamin Kuris

Director of Hardware Engineering, Shimmer Research

Benjamin Kuris is Director of Hardware Engineering at Shimmer Research, a division of Realtime Technologies, Ldiv.

At Shimmer, Ben guides R&D and commercialization of the company's wearable sensor that he originated at Intel. He is also a consultant at MIT for the NIH U01 funded project "Enabling Population-Scale Physical Activity Measurement on Common Mobile Phones." He has an additional 12 years of experience in top industry R&D organizations at Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer, HP Labs, and Intel. His work is found in commercial products from Compaq and Shimmer-Research. Mr. Kuris has multiple patent filings in the area of low-power sensing and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University.