Meet the Team
Reach-In Now’s executive Team and Advisory Board expertise ranges from public health, technology, counseling, education, support for armed forces, professional sports, finance, and philanthropy.
Executive Team
Bianca D. McCall, LMFT
Founder & President
Bianca D. McCall is a retired professional women’s basketball player; 25 Year Behavioral Health Expert; Licensed Clinical Therapist; 11 Year Healthcare CEO; American Association for Suicidology (AAS) Certified Specialist for Psychological Autopsy; Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), Lived Experience Advisory Committee (LEAC) Member; Nevada Systems for Higher Education (NSHE), University of Nevada, Reno, Centers for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT), Pre & Post Service Fields Instructor; Nevada Child Death Review Board Member (2013-2019); Prismatic Performance Academies, Board Member; Diversity (Kentucky) Derby Week, Board Member; and TEDxSpeaker.
Siska Concannon
CEO/COO
Siska Concannon’s vast industry experience has provided her a successful career leveraging her expertise in business strategy, planning and market development, and leadership. With close to 20 years’ experience across a variety of industries and new markets including, Investment Banking, Manufacturing, Technology, Gaming, Sports Media & Social Influencer Management. For the past 8 years she has specialized in strategy, marketing, change management & process development, and business intelligence leadership in the Technology sector focused within the online gambling industry, both locally in the US as well as international markets. Prior to Reach-In Now Siska successfully launched Affiliated Sports Fans, as Co-Founder and CMO – a first of its kind marketing engagement platform specializing in unique relationship marketing initiatives in both online & offline environments. She is passionate and focused on female empowerment within the professional environment, often championing women business leaders initiatives and allies. Siska’s philanthropic efforts are focused on lifting women in sports, mental health initiatives for transitioning athletes, and professional mentorship. Originating from Australia, her career has taken her to the UK, Asia, North America, and Europe, and who not too long ago hung up her own athletic career to focus on her professional one.
Heather Parisi
Chief Product Officer
Heather Parisi, comes with 25 years experience in product development, manufacturing, supply chain and quality assurance. Heather’s organizational expertise provides meticulous preparation throughout the development cycle and creates organization and clarity through the chaos. Her work experience demonstrates her appetite to grow while accumulating knowledge and expanding beyond expectations.
Working within the startup environment is a passion that drives Heather to assure success is achieved. Demonstrated in her most recent role as CPO for Wherewithal she developed and brought to market a new patented sizing system for bras, the first patent issued within the industry in over 100 years.
Heathers entrepreneurial spirit guided her to launch two humanitarian endeavors. Flip2BFit and Fitness for Africa. Inspired by her athleticism and her own healthy lifestyle, Heather introduced Flip2BFit, a board game blending strategy, exercise and evidence based experience to create a new PE offering accredited with all PE Curriculums throughout the US. Heather’s philanthropic spirit found the culmination of her dream in Uganda. Establishing a small nursery and primary school with a mission statement to bring a healthier lifestyle to world communities. As a certified life coach Heather continues to empower individuals to live their best life.
Born in New York, Heather’s career has taken her to Asia, Europe, Africa and the UK and has provided her with a well-rounded cultural understanding forging the way to navigate and develop meaningful relationships, that fuel and are the core in bringing any product to market with success.
Advisory Board
Dr. Glenn Toby
founder & ceo
Glenn Toby Enterprises (GTE)
Dr. Glenn Toby is the founder and CEO of Glenn Toby Enterprises (GTE). Glenn Toby Enterprises is a leading international holding corporation that controls companies in the world of real estate, asset management, and technology as well as a multi-tiered entertainment and athlete management company.
Dr. Andrea Renee Rivera
Chillax Om Mind-Body Medicine
Dr. Andrea Renee is a doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine that helps people get the handbook to their own Mind and Body so they can custom design their lifestyle for their best health, peak performance and longevity.
Brandyn Cottingham
partner
Lumiere Investment Design
Currently 1:50 Black Americans is a millionaire, my goal is to make that number 1:25. I am a partner at Lumiere Investment Design, a quant fund, specializing in deal formulation and capital stack management to position companies for institutional engagement. I am also the President of Fort Bend County MUD 24, a USMC Veteran, HBCU Alum (Texas Southern University), a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and a loving family man.
Cathryn Nacario, RN, MHA
CEO
NAMI San Diego
Cathryn Nacario is the Chief Executive Officer of NAMI San Diego. She is passionate and dedicated to serving all those impacted by mental health challenges. Her fusion of nonprofit and for profit work is an excellent combination for bringing business acumen and compassion together for business growth and prosperity to serve more individuals and their caregivers living with mental health concerns.
Dion Gonzales
co-founder
iRel8.org
I am entrepreneur with a history of successfully delivering technology solutions domestically and internationally. I’m passionate making a positive impact on mental health worldwide with iRel8.org, our anonymous peer connection platform.
Jeff Dorchester
co-founder
iRel8.org
I’m am innovator and disruptor in the mental health space. I bring a positive stance to create technology for the greater good to help humankind in new ways. As the co-founder of iRel8, I develop anonymous peer empowerment platforms to connect communities which allow users access to various forms of 24/7/365 support via mobile applications. I hope to shatter the stigma associated with mental health and bring a new paradigm to the world where people can openly talk about lived experiences and struggles in ways never seen before.
Stephen Byrkit
partner
Lumiere Investment Design
20 Year Career. Blackstone, Blackrock, PNC, JLL, EMJ, CBL, DPR. Large Project financial structuring and management. Specializing in Quant Analysis and Securities Design.
Dr. Dan Young
owner
Maverick Class LLC
Dr. Dan Young is the Founding Director of the Wharton-AltFinance Institute at the Wharton School and is the curator of TEDxWilmington, which is in the top 1% of all TEDx franchises in the country with over 550 speakers and 42 million views on YouTube. As an “educationpreneur”, he is also responsible for creating the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program at Goldey-Beacom College. the first online DBA class for Wilmington University, the first study abroad program for the Horn Program of Entrepreneurship and the first international internship program for study abroad at the University of Delaware. He is currently the owner of Maverick Class LLC, a holding company for educational inititiatives.
Dr. Zoee Bartholomew, EdD
founder
ZMB Consulting Educational Center
Dr. Zoee Bartholomew, affectionately known as Dr. Behave, has dedicated her professional life to supporting individuals with disabilities. She has held many positions within special education, which includes being a Special Education Teacher to now being the Special Education Program Director at Dominican University of California. In addition to her academic endeavors, she also is in private practice serving as an Educational Consultant, who helps parents navigate through the IEP Process. She is an exceptional Educational Leader whose dissertation on the “Barriers of Meeting The Needs of Special Education Students,” humbly describes the overwhelming challenges found in Special Education Programs. She is hoping to continue advocating for Special Education Reform to ensure all students with any learning difference or disability receive quality support and services.
Lisa Bonta Sumii, LCSW, CSW
CEO & Founder
AthMindet
Lisa Bonta Sumii, LCSW, CSW is a psychotherapist and mental performance consultant with over 20 years of experience. Lisa is the first-ever Mental Health & Performance Coach for the Oakland Roots SC’s first team, a men’s professional soccer team in the USL-Championship. She is the CEO & Founder of AthMindset, a team of athlete-centered licensed clinicians and mental performance consultants, striving to optimize the mental health of high performing athletes and the entire sport ecosystem.
Dr. Lawrence Jonathan Jackson, Ph.D. LMFT
Owner
The Black Male Therapist
Lawrence Jackson, Ph.D. LMFT or “The Black Male Therapist,” is a licensed psychotherapist and sports performance coach in the NBA and NFL. He is also a speaker, author, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the states of Nevada & Florida. His mission related to mental health wellness is to share a piece of the PIE (Promoting mental health awareness, Inspiring youth, and Empowering others). Additionally, Dr. Jackson utilizes his social media platforms to normalize mental health through the use of psychoeducation and apparel.
Matthew Holland
Synergistic Creations Inc.
Matthew Holland is a serial social entrepreneur whose multi-faceted career has spanned across many market segments including public, private, government, the armed forces, and nonprofits. His passion, charisma, energy, and drive have helped lead him to many tall peaks and through just as many darkened valleys. He sees life through the lens of being a realist infused with optimism, always believing that there is a better way, with many stones left unturned, and paths unseen not taken.