We exist to unlock and move human intelligence.

Amanda has spent her entire career studying how people participate in the decisions that affect them. Her graduate research examined how surfacing people's knowledge and values leads to better collective outcomes. She carried that thesis into government, leading national behavior change campaigns for the U.S. EPA, CDC, and DOE, and ultimately into Balloon. She was named to Inc.'s Female Founders 100, and her work has appeared in Forbes, Bloomberg, and Fast Company. Amanda holds a Master of Science in Public Health from the UNC-CH Gillings School of Global Public Health and earned her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.

For nearly two decades, Noah has worked on translating human behavior into technology that works. Prior to Balloon, he led the redesign and modernization of the theming architecture for IBM's Digital Experience portfolio and championed the adoption of Design Thinking across IBM's worldwide development team. Earlier, he built and led digital strategy for 25+ national congressional campaigns and U.S. Senate and House offices, and archived a library of Tibetan documents with Google Books - work he later presented to the Dalai Lama. Noah holds a Master of Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon.