David Schafran

David Schafran is a passionate entrepreneur and unabashed multidisciplinarian who has helped grow pioneering early-stage technology and social ventures involved in IT-enabled services, mobile, and cloud services in India, Brazil, and the US. Before co-founding EyeNetra, he was a researcher at MIT Media Lab; co-creator of HealthGamesCamp, a game-based event in which multidisciplinary teams designed game-based solutions that change health behaviors; an early team member of txtWeb, a special Intuit project on a new SMS-based platform for India; and a strategist for Catapult Design, a product design firm for companies working in emerging markets. In 2009, he helped scale DesiCrew, India’s first rural business process outsourcing company, as well as Villgro, an early-stage Indian innovation incubator, through a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. David comes from a family of optometrists. - See more at: http://eyenetra.com/team.html#sthash.CCAMSzI3.dpuf