Our Co-Founders

With dual PhDs from NYU in Experimental/Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology, Dr. Benasich was the first to show that the ability to perform non-speech acoustic discriminations in early infancy is highly predictive of later language development. Recognizing that improving that ability could move young children to a better learning track informed much of her groundbreaking research on the impact of rapid auditory processing, brain plasticity and sleep on brain development and performance and resulted in 18 patents and 70+ peer-reviewed papers supporting the scientific innovations incorporated in RVI products. 

She is a co-inventor on a mortgage restructuring patent as well as on RVI’s patents for creating sound environments supporting the neural circuity on which language processing is dependent. A mother of three, she has a long-standing interest in child development, co-authoring a book on parenting as well as a parenting advice column for American Baby Magazine. She received a BA in political science and economics from Yale University and an MBA from the SC Johnson School of Business at Cornell University.

Foundry is an online college designed to provide automation-resistant skills. Dr. Kosslyn formerly served as Founding Dean of the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute, Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Chair of the Department of Psychology as well as Dean of Social Sciences at Harvard University. He received his BA from UCLA and a PhD from Stanford, both in psychology and, among other honors, the Cattell Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and election to Academia Rodinensis pro-Remediatione, the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

She is also the Director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory which focuses on the biology of auditory learning. Dr. Kraus was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization following learning and, through a series of studies involving thousands of research participants, her research has found that our lives in sound shape auditory processing.  She received a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD in Neuroscience from Northwestern, has served on the advisory or editorial board of numerous scientific publications and currently is a member of the Research Committee of the American Hearing Research Foundation.

He has published more than 250 scientific papers, received numerous awards and prizes including the Russ Prize, Ipsen Prize, Zülch Prize, Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award and Purkinje Medal and, in 2016, was awarded one of the world’s top neuroscience honors, the Kavli Prize, for his achievements in the field of brain plasticity. Grantee of nearly 100 patents, he and his work have been highlighted in hundreds of books about the brain, learning, rehabilitation, and plasticity. A member of both the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Science, he earned his BS at the University of Portland and his PhD at Johns Hopkins.