# Current Board members From Ubiquity’s official team pages: - Jim Garrison, PhD – Founder, President, Chief Academic Officer, faculty member - **Lindley Edwards, PhD** – Board member - **Loren Volk** – Board member # Executive / Operations Team - **Katie Amren** – Chief Operations Officer - **Rajinda Jayasinghe** – Managing Director - **Peter Merry** – Co‑founder (advising leadership) - **Gyorgyi Szabó** – Dean of Graduate Studies - **Nora Silini** – Director of Admissions & Enrollment - **Georg Boch** – Course Production Manager & ET Studies TA - **Various staff** in registrar, finance, IT, projects, student wellbeing, and marketing
# Founders and Key People - **Matthew Fox, PhD** – Founder of the **University of Creation Spirituality** (1996), the original institutional root that later became Wisdom University and then part of Ubiquity. Fox led UCS as president and professor until 2005. - Jim Garrison, PhD – Recruited as president in 2005; **renamed the school Wisdom University**; later **founded Ubiquity University** and oversaw the 2012–2013 transition to the current B‑corp structure. He is widely described as the **founder and president of Ubiquity University** in its present form.
# Co‑founders and Early Leadership - **Peter Merry, PhD** – Co‑founder of Ubiquity University; serves as advisor to the leadership team and has acted as Chief Innovation Officer. He is known for work on evolutionary leadership, human ecology, and systems change. - **James Hickman** – Early Chair/COO/CFO and board‑level leader (now listed “In memory of” on Ubiquity’s team page). He brought decades of experience in international business and finance and served on the State of the World Forum board. These three — **Jim Garrison, Peter Merry, and James Hickman** — are typically named in startup and investor profiles as the core **founding team** of Ubiquity University (B‑corp, founded 2012).