Montreal-based MindHabits develops science-based videogames designed to help players reduce stress and build self-confidence. Founded on social intelligence research by Dr. Mark Baldwin at McGill University, these stress busting, confidence boosting games use simple, fun-to-play exercises that help players develop and maintain a more positive state of mind.

Mark Baldwin, PhD (Psychology) President and Chief Scientific Officer. Dr. Baldwin is a psychology professor in the Department of Psychology at McGill University, in Montreal Canada, and is the Lead Inventor of the software licensed to MindHabits Inc. He studied Psychology at the University of Toronto (BA.) and the University of Waterloo (MA and PhD, 1984). He then held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Michigan and the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto. For several years he wrote and performed in children's television, co-creating the 65-episode series Camp Cariboo. Then he taught at the University of Winnipeg for 8 years before beginning his current position at McGill University in 1998. Dr. Baldwin has served as the Chair of the Social and Personality Psychology section of the Canadian Psychological Association, and as Associate Editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Matthew Mather, Eng., Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Mather was previously CEO of Lycos Canada Inc., an online media company reaching over five million Canadians a month. Mr. Mather was also the founder of Haptic Technologies Inc., a Montreal based gaming interface company he started in 1996, which merged with Immersion Corporation (www.immersion.com) in 2000 to become the exclusive supplier of tactile feedback technology to the gaming industry. Immersion TouchSense technology is now embedded into hundreds of PC and console gaming titles, and is licensed to dozens of manufacturers including Microsoft X-Box, Thrustmaster, Logitech, MadCatz, and many more. After completing an Electrical Engineering degree at McGill University in 1992, Mr. Mather became a founder of eFundRaising.com, which was later purchased by ZapMe for $27M. Following this, after founding Haptic, Mr. Mather worked in at Immersion in San Jose, CA, working with Logitech on new gaming interfaces, and eventually returned to Montreal to lead an initiative at McGill University to begin a program of licensing software technologies.

Dr. Stéphane Dandeneau, PhD Research Project Manager Dr. Stéphane Dandeneau, PhD is Research Project Manager at MindHabits Inc. His recently completed PhD thesis consisted of the ground breaking research showing how modifying attentional patterns can have beneficial psychological, behavioural, and physiological outcomes. Dr. Dandeneau and colleagues recently published an influencial article on this research in the prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2007) which has received significant media and academic attention due to its novel approach. Dr. Dandeneau has also worked in the area of ethno-cultural psychology, participating in projects in collaboration with the Waikato Tainui of New Zealand, and worked with Tebtebba, and international indigenous rights NGO, on an international indigenous indicators of wellbeing project in collaboration with the United Nations. Dr. Dandeneau is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital. Dr. Dandeneau is a French-canadian Métis from Saint-Boniface, Manitoba.