Mission
HAPPYneuron'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
HAPPYneuron, Inc. was founded in 2000 to provide scientifically based, convenient, quick, and entertaining ways to exercise the brain.
Laura Fay
Chief Executive Officer
Laura Fay is a customer focused leader with over twenty years experience in servicing customers, driving growth and bringing new products to market. At HAPPYneuron, she leads strategic direction, sales and operations. Prior to joining HAPPYneuron, Fay has served a broad range of customers through the development of a wide variety of enterprise, on-demand, wireless and data commutations products for large enterprises such as E*Trade Financial, Lotus Development Corporation and 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.
Franck Tarpin-Bernard, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Franck Tarpin-Bernard is instrumental in taking the science and creativity of Drs. Bernard Croisile and Michel Noir and making their ideas come alive as innovative, engaging and challenging brain fitness solutions, including performance tracking and personalized coaching. Dr. Tarpin-Bernard also serves as 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.
Bernard Croisile, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Croisile 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-Davis 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 Neuropsychology Department 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...