Management Team / Advisory Board Bios
Jenna Hua, PhD, MPH, RD
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jenna’s extensive experience as an academic and health advocate led to her founding Million Marker in 2019, shortly after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship with Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Throughout her career in academia, Jenna has researched and published numerous studies that largely focused on citizens science, general health, and the impact of food consumption on a person’s well-being. In one of her most recent publications, Jenna used machine learning to identify people based on food consumed in order to offer healthier food options.xxxiii She also published another report that studied the arsenic exposure and risks of eating rice within adolescents in Kunming, China.xxxiv Jenna has been a Project Manager for UNC’s Carolina Population Center, a Graduate Instructor and Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, and a Project Manager at UCLA’s Center for Population Research. She was also a US Fulbright Fellow at the Institute of International Education in Kunming, China. Jenna holds a BS in Nutrition and an MPH and PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley.
Laurynas Riliskis, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Larry is a seasoned technologist and entrepreneur who brings over 10 years of experience to Million Marker. Aside from his position at Million Marker, Larry is the director of engineering at BehavioSec, a behavioral biometrics company. He also serves as an expert advisor for the European Commission, an independent governmental organization that prepares legislation for the Council and Parliament. In 2018, Larry founded Victor AI, an AI-powered compliance officer to assist companies by automating regulatory compliance. The company was part of the Spring 2019 cohort in Lex Lab’s accelerator program.xxxv Larry also founded Harmony.ai, a SaaS data privacy company that automates workflows and enables compliance for GDPR and other regulations. Larry holds an MS in computer science and a Ph.D. in computer networking from the Luleå University of Technology. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Stanford University.
Johanna Rochester, PhD
Chief Scientist Officer
Jo has spent the last decade studying how environmental stressors affect hormones and health. She was on the front lines of endocrine disruption research, especially in relation to human exposures and health effects. She has published several scoping and systematic reviews, including a pivotal one on BPA and human health. This review has been cited over 1,000 times, greatly furthering epidemiological BPA research, and was used as the basis for regulation of BPA under California’s Proposition 65. Jo holds an MS and PhD from the University of California, Davis, and did her postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She then worked at TEDX, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, the foremost non-profit in endocrine disruption research and science translation.