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Draft:Eric Harr

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Eric Harr is the Co-Founder and CEO of MAXIOM Labs, Inc., an AI-driven technology company that optimizes human performance—starting with a deeply-researched, precisely-personalized sports nutrition system. Mr. Harr has led six enterprises with three successful exits.

Mr. Harr is also the Co-Founder and CEO of The Laudato sì Challenge Foundation, Inspired by Pope Francis—a global venture philanthropy foundation which invests in proven and scalable solutions to the global challenges set forth by Pope Francis in his encyclical letter, Laudato sì: On Care for Our Common Home. Mr. Harr has organized and chaired 11 summits in Vatican City over the past seven years, "building bridges between unlikely allies" in the public, private, faith and academic sectors to co-create and implement solutions that - in Pope Francis' words - "answer the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

Mr. Harr was an investor, advisor and judge with The Hult Prize for three years.

Mr. Harr served as the on-air fitness correspondent with CBS News for five years. He wrote a nationally-syndicated, weekly fitness column with The Los Angeles Times (Tribune Media), and he was The Founding Editorial Director at VIV Magazine, a celebrity-driven fitness magazine, funded by Fiji Water’s David Gilmour. He ran a successful social media agency for six years, and he is the author of five training and nutrition books with Rodale and Random House.

Mr. Harr is an Ironman triathlete, ranked #6 in the world in his first year as a professional, and he currently holds the world's best time in his age-group of 8:42:45 set at Ironman California on October 23, 2023. He is training to win an Ironman World Championship in his age group on October 26, 2024 on The Big Island of Hawaii.