MICHAEL MCCULLOUGH

Michael McCullough, M.D., M.Sc. is the Founder and CEO of BrainMind. He is an EIR at Greylock Partners, impact investor and was a founding Partner at Capricorn Healthcare, and former longtime clinical faculty at UCSF. Michael’s personal interest in the brain extends from a childhood brain hemorrhage which resulted in hydrocephalus and a severe stutter, partially corrected by brain surgery at age 10 and requiring Michael to retrain himself to speak through high school and early college at Stanford. He was the first undergraduate hired to teach at the Stanford Medical School (NeuroAnatomy). Accomplishing fluent speech also required extensive biofeedback and meditation practice. After returning from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Michael co-founded QuestBridge during free hours in medical school at UCSF and his surgical residency at Stanford. QuestBridge, a national non-profit, now places more talented low-income students into 50+ top colleges like Stanford, Yale, Caltech, and MIT than all other non-profits combined. Michael has since founded or co-founded 12 successful companies and non-profits.

Michael is a founder of RegenMed Systems, a co-founding investor of HeartFlow, Michael also served/serves on the boards and Advisory boards of Manas AI, InflectionAI, Metabiota, the Global Leadership Incubator, QuestBridge, and the Dalai Lama Foundation among others, and served as an on-call ER physician for the Dalai Lama during his visits to the West Coast.