Todd B. Gailun in New York, NY | Hotchkiss School - Georgetown University - The Mcdonough School Of Business

Todd B. Gailun

Male, 44 years old

New York, NY

"Imagine in times of confusion we could hook ourselves up to a machine called an Inner Self Detector. After attaching electrodes to our temples and adjusting the dials we could ask questions like "HOW DO I REALLY FEEL ABOUT.." -- Timothy D. Wilson, Professor of Psychology, UVA Todd is the co-founder and co-CEO of SENSOKA developing a platform measuring and contextualizing human emotion. Much has been designed measuring ambiguous "activity" metrics and degrees of stress. We feel heightening people's awareness of specific emotions within the framework of the "here and now" is what empowers them to make intelligent decisions, experience the power and value of all emotions, and even self-generate positive emotions using biofeedback. We're hacking the nervous system to make what was heretofore unconscious, conscious. "Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brains work so well that our reasoning can work at all. Reason and emotion must both work together to create intelligent behavior, but emotion does most of the work." -- Jonathan Haidt, THE HAPPINESS HYPOTHESIS "People who cannot marshal some control over their emotional life fight inner battles that sabotage their ability for focused work and clear thought." -- Daniel Goleman, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE "The greatest thing, then, in all education is to make the nervous system our ally instead of our enemy." -- William James, PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY Prior to SENSOKA, Todd was the Product Manager (the Evangelist) at hakia, the pioneering semantic search firm. After Microsoft bought hakia's competitor (Powerset) and built Bing, hakia pivoted. Leveraging its semantic algorithms, hakia built SENSEnews. It was the first sentiment analysis tool able to understand emotion on the Web on a granular level, transcending positivenegative. He developedevangelized SENSEnews to hedge funds enabling them to understand how news impacts asset prices -- and profit. read more ...