Leadership - The BRAIN Foundation

Pramila Srinivasan, PhD

President and Board Member

Pramila Srinivasan is President and Board Member of BRAIN Foundation. She is responsible for its day-to-day operations, overseeing its participants and volunteers on a daily basis. She is also an entrepreneur in the healthcare industry and supporter of medical research. Ms. Srinivasan holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University. She founded MedicalMine Inc. in 2007 which is now a leading Electronic Health Records company. This foundation is motivated by her desire to catalyze medical research that could help lead to FDA-approved therapies for comorbidities affecting those with mental health and developmental disorders.

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Sarika Agrawal

Co-founder and Board Member

Sarika Agrawal is a Co-founder and Board Member of the BRAIN Foundation. She is an autism advocate and philanthropist who has spent the past 13 years providing 1:1 support and mentoring to families with developmental disabilities. She is passionate about supporting translational research and therapeutics that improve visual-motor integration, apraxia, speech and executive functioning challenges in people with autism. She is also an active champion of access, choice, and development of augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) modalities and neurotechnology for those with speech disabilities. She is a former high-tech executive and McKinsey consultant with an MSEE from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Stanford University. She welcomes you to connect with her.

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Sean O’Sullivan

Board Member

Sean O’Sullivan is a Board Member of the BRAIN Foundation and managing partner of SOSV, a venture capital firm which specializes in accelerator programs for very early stage companies and is one of the most active venture investors in the world. SOSV runs the world’s most active accelerators in hardware (HAX), life sciences (IndieBio), and Asia cross-border startups (Chinaccelerator/MOX) and blockchain (dlab). O’Sullivan’s first company, MapInfo, grew to a $200 million revenue public company with over 1,000 employees, and popularized street mapping on computers. His first internet company, NetCentric, developed many concepts in internet computing, and he is credited as the co-creator of the term “cloud computing”. A father of a son with Autism, Sean is the founder of the O’Sullivan Foundation, as well as a founding LP of the Autism Impact Fund.

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Elizabeth Horn

Vice President and Board Member

Vice President and Board Member of BRAIN Foundation, Elizabeth is also Founder and Executive Director of 2m Foundation, a California-based nonprofit featuring COMPASS as one of its major initiatives. Conceived in 2014, Compass now includes 350 clinicians, scientists, IT experts, investors and families affected by autism all committed to finding answers by systematically gathering multi-omic data on individuals with ASD Ms. Horn’s latest effort is on the investment side – working with successful venture and accelerator stakeholders to develop the Autism Impact Fund, combining high-tech industry funding and startup process with philanthropy to accelerate progress in all aspects of autism research, development and support. She is also co- founder of charmtracker.com and Board Member of MedicalMine, Inc.

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BRAIN Foundation Team Members

Priya Rangarajan, Ph.D

Resident Scientist

Priya Rangarajan is the in-house Scientist at the Brain Foundation. She is on the Synchrony Symposium’s planning committee and oversees the CME track. Dr. Rangarajan is passionate about understanding the scientific underpinnings of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders and works to translate scientific advances to clinical trials through the Brain Foundation. Dr. Rangarajan is also an active advocate in her community. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston University and holds a Ph.D. from the Miller School of Medicine, Univ. of Miami, in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Natasa BlagojevicStokic

Marketing & Social Media Outreach

Team member responsible for promoting and strengthening BRAIN Foundation presence and outreach across online platforms, including planning and implementing foundations’s social media strategy. Passionate about health, nutrition and life sciences.

Ronald Vigue

Director of Development

Ronald brings over 15 years of fundraising experience to The Brain Foundation, having raised millions of dollars for humanitarian organizations and those in need. He self-describes as a fundraising nerd, as he enjoys making a difference in his community through his work. Most recently, he’s directed philanthropic teams for the American Red Cross, The Ehlers-Danlos Society and Reach Out & Read. A classically-trained composer, Ronald has won awards from the American Music Center, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, among others.

Mary Chambers

Development and Outreach

Mary Chambers supports the BRAIN Foundation in the areas of program development and outreach. She has an MBA from the University of Santa Clara, an MA from the University of Maryland in Archaeology, and an MS from the University of Bridgeport in Nutrition. She has spent most of her career consulting for small businesses in the areas of marketing and business strategy as well as helping social entrepreneurs seeking to scale their organizations. She has developed a strong passion for biochemistry and research into neurological disorders.

Heer Nanda

Student Intern

Heer Nanda is a Freshman at UC Berkeley intending to double major in Molecular and Cell Biology (College of Letters and Sciences) + Business Administration (Haas School of Business). Throughout her high school career, she found her passion in medicine, entrepreneurship, and dance. She’s an active healthcare member of her community as she currently volunteers at hospitals, COVID-19 testing centers, hospices, and blood banks. Overall, she aspires to become a doctor to help improve the health of individuals and the community around her.

BRAIN Foundation Leadership Team