Unity Stoakes is on a life-long mission to solve big challenges that will impact humanity. By combining the power of moonshot thinking, a transformer mindset, exponential innovation and collaborative communities, he believes the extraordinary is possible. In 2011, Unity co-founded StartUp Health to organize, activate and supercharge a global army of Health Transformers to embark on one awesome mission -- to achieve a family of interconnected Health Moonshots, in an effort to improve the lives of billions of people.Today, StartUp Health has the world’s largest portfolio of health innovation companies (more than 550 from 32 countries and 6 continents) and has assembled a worldwide network of 300,000 innovators, leaders, and investors committed to reinventing the future of health. Over the coming years, StartUp Health will continue to organize and support generations of Health Transformers to achieve Health Moonshots ranging from eradicating Alzheimer's Disease to curing diabetes, increasing healthy lifespan.Unity has been a tech entrepreneur for 3 decades, previously co-founding OrganizedWisdom (first digital doctor's office) and helping build The Privacy Council (setting first online privacy standards), Middleberg Interactive (early interactive agency), and Webstakes.com/Promotions.com (early online marketing and data platform), which IPO'd on NASDAQ in 1999. Unity worked with many groundbreaking internet startups including one of the first music streaming companies (Quincy Jones' QRadio.net), first online advertising with AdOne, first online trading with Datek Online, early e-commerce platform CDNow and many others.Unity has written for Forbes & TechCrunch, appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, NPR and USA Today, and speaks around the world about the future of health. He is the publisher of StartUp Health Magazine, The Health Transformer Blog and co-host of StartUp Health NOW, a weekly web podcast. A few of Unity's interests include invisible design, behavior change for good, studying senses, traveling off the beaten path, exploring new cultures & people, tasting food, photography, writing, street art, architecture, nature, day-dreaming, bocce ball, big trees, and walking. Most of all, he loves spending time with friends, his wife Katya, and kiddos Oz and Coco!Unity grew up on a farm in Oxford, Iowa, went to Boston University, spent two decades in NYC, and currently lives in Berkeley CA. Learn more on his personal blog at DreamImpossible.org.