Our Board

Our engaged Board represents both lived and learned experiences of TBI—over 75% have experienced brain injury or caregiving themselves, centering lived experience alongside significant executive leadership in philanthropy, business, law, human resources, and nonprofit administration to help us set our strategic direction, achieve our goals, and realize our vision.

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    Pia has served as President of the LoveYourBrain Foundation Board since its founding in 2015. Her leadership is grounded in her family’s personal experience with brain injury. In 2009, her youngest son, Kevin Pearce, sustained a severe traumatic brain injury while training for the Olympics. As his mother and caregiver, Pia experienced firsthand the long, uncertain journey of recovery and the lasting, often invisible, challenges of life after brain injury. Their story is documented in the HBO film The Crash Reel.
    This experience continues to guide Pia’s commitment to ensuring that individuals and families affected by TBI have access to the support and community they need to thrive. Inspired by her family’s journey, she believes deeply in the power of mindfulness, meditation, and connection to help people build meaningful lives after brain injury. Pia also brings more than four decades of leadership experience at Simon Pearce (US) Inc.

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    Geoffrey has more than thirty years’ experience handling complex business disputes. He has appeared in state and federal courts in New Hampshire and Vermont. His cases have spanned a wide variety of substantive areas including intellectual property, breach of contract, trade secrets, covenants not to compete, employment, and other business disputes. Geoffrey has done extensive pro bono work. For four years, he was the Co-Chair of the Children’s Rights Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation of the ABA and for ten years, he served on the Working Group of that Committee. He recently completed a three-year term as the Co-Chair of the Pro Bono and Public Interest Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation. He also served on the Governing Council of the Section of Litigation.

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    Jay is Chief Executive Officer of Simon Pearce US and an advisor to the Pearce Family. Earlier, he was SVP and CFO of Swiftpage, and Vice President of Strategy and Planning at TomTom and TeleAtlas.
    A few years before joining Simon Pearce, Jay suffered a significant traumatic brain injury at the Dartmouth Skiway trying to keep up with his daughter. That lived experience gives him a deep appreciation for the mission and programs of LYB.
    Jay lives in Norwich, VT, with his wife Heather and their two daughters. The family loves to be outside year round, hiking, skiing, and raising some of their own food.

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    David has been a successful sales executive in the footwear industry for over 25 years due to his deep understanding of the wants and desires of consumers. He is an avid cyclist and skier who has used those passions to raise money and attention for causes he cares about. He has raised thousands of dollars for the National MS Society through fundraising and cycling in charity rides. In 2013, he was in a devastating cycling/car accident that left him with many broken bones and a TBI. “The Crash Reel” film helped David open a dialogue about his own TBI and reach out to help others affected by brain injury. In 2017, he co-created the first Love Your Brain event in Hermosa Beach, where he lives with his wife, Carol and two teenagers.

Our Advisory Team

Our growing Advisory Team encompasses over 70% with direct lived experience of TBI, and expertise that spans nonprofits, communications, brand, neurorehabilitation, and DEIAB. To center our community in our work, we intentionally invite program participants and Program Leaders to serve on this team.

Michael Jager

David De Rothschild

Doug Ulman

Natalie Hopkins

Esther Saidman

Nirali Chauhan,
MD candidate

Chris Giza, MD

Mary Brownsberger,
Psy.D. ABPP