Built by people who believe mental healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.

Tao is a technology entrepreneur, published author, and the driving force behind PhrenTech's vision and go-to-market strategy. With over a decade of enterprise B2B SaaS sales experience — including Director-level roles at leading retail technology companies — she brings deep expertise in scaling products from zero to market. She holds an MBA from the University of Miami Herbert Business School and is the author of The Human Hand: A Real World Guide to Artificial Intelligence. Tao's work sits at the intersection of human behavior, emerging technology, and access — themes that define everything PhrenTech builds. She co-founded PhrenTech to make evidence-based mental health support available to anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Alec is a seasoned product builder and infrastructure architect with over 15 years of experience shipping software and over a decade as a Senior DevOps lead. He has built HIPAA-compliant platforms from the ground up and specializes in robust, secure backend infrastructure designed to scale. Currently, Alec leads Observability Engineering for a Fortune 500 enterprise — overseeing the systems and team responsible for monitoring the reliability, performance, and health of large-scale production infrastructure. At PhrenTech, he architects the technical foundation that makes Phrenly and the VR platform possible: secure, compliant, and built to grow.