Mission
Happy Neuron's mission is to apply knowledge and research from the field of Cognitive Neuroscience to the stimulation and enhancement of the brain's natural ability to learn at any age and to improve overall brain health. Our goal is to provide scientifically rigorous and validated brain training programs that offer challenging yet fun ways to stimulate the brain, while enabling users to effective manage their performance over time.
Leadership Team
Happy Neuron, Inc. was founded in 2000 to provide scientifically based, convenient, quick, and entertaining ways to exercise the brain.
Dr. Michel Noir
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Noir is a cognitive psychologist with a creative background, including having authored 15 books on subjects ranging from art to mysteries to cognitive exercises. He previously had a distinguished career in government. He received his Graduate Diploma, Advanced Graduate Diploma, and Master’s in Public Law from Paris Law Faculty. He later received an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Political Science and a Ph.D in Educational Sciences from Lyon II University.
Laura Fay
Chief Operating Officer
Laura Fay is a customer focused leader with over twenty years experience in servicing customers and bringing new products to market. At Happy Neuron, she leads the company operations. Prior to joining Happy Neuron, Ms. Fay has served a broad range of customers and developed a wide variety of enterprise, on-demand, wireless and data commutations products for large enterprises such as E*Trade Financial, Lotus Development Corporation, IBM in addition to early stage companies such as Scalix (founding executive), ISOCOR, Peerless Systems and Retix (co-founder). Laura received her Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland, and her MBA from Santa Clara University, California.
Dr. Franck Tarpin-Bernard
VP Engineering
Dr. Franck Tarpin Bernard has been instrumental in making the science and creativity of Drs. Croisile and Noir come alive as interesting, challenging online and mobile games with performance tracking and coaching. Dr. Tarpin-Bernard is also a Professor in Computer Science at the National Institute of Applied Science of Lyon and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters. He graduated first in his class in engineering from Ecole Centrale de Lyon and later received a Ph.D in computer engineering, also from Ecole Centrale de Lyon.
Dr. Bernard Croisile
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Croisile, both an MD and Ph.D., is a respected neurologist and neuropsychologist with an international reputation for his research on aging and cognition. He was the recipient of the Alzheimer's Disease Parke-David Award in 1998 and has written several hundred peer-reviewed articles for scientific publications, papers, and book chapters on aging and cognition, and spoken at hundreds of professional conferences on the prevention of dementia and age-related cognitive decline. Dr. Croisile has been the Chair of the Neuro-Psychology Laboratory, Cognitive Functions, Language and Memory, at the Neurological Hospital of Lyon France, since 1992. He received his M.D. and certification in Neurology from Lyon Hospitals and his Neurosciences Specialty degree and Ph.D. in Neuropsychology from University Claude Bernard in Lyon, France. See the Scientific Team here...