Live Learn Innovate Foundation
The People Behind LLIF
Stewardship, governance, and engineering—built for public benefit
LLIF is a nonprofit foundation building privacy-first infrastructure and governance for longitudinal life data. Our board, advisors, and team contribute expertise across engineering, security, research enablement, and nonprofit operations.
If you want to support the mission—as a volunteer, partner, or donor—we’d love to hear from you.
With an abundance of worthy causes, picking the Live Learn Innovate Foundation provides multiple organizations founded in health, medicine, environment, legislation, and entertainment with the more fundamental opportunity to overcome digital monopolies.
You improve all those industries by working with a foundation that inherently reduces the risk of monopolization and coercive control.
Say hello to our board
Our board brings decades of experience across technology, product leadership, security, operations, and nonprofit stewardship. They help ensure LLIF stays focused on mission, trust, and long-term accountability.
We formed Live Learn Innovate Foundation (LLIF) because we see deficiencies in personal data collection, data analytics, wellness, data privacy, and data governance. We believe that Live Learn Innovate Foundation LLIF will be transformational to people, communities, and businesses.
Chairman and founder of the Live Learn Innovate Foundation, Jim French is a valued member of our Board of Directors and daily team.
Jim is a lifelong observer, learner, builder, teacher, investor, partner, and philosopher pursuing impactful ways to help.
As a Distinguished System Engineer at Cisco, he repeatedly helped to create and incubate new products and solutions to fill gaps in technology and operations with the goal of helping customer lower, costs, increase agility, reduce risk, and improve experience.
LLIF is a manifestation of that same pursuit for people and businesses.
Supreeth Rao
Supreeth Rao is currently a distinguished engineer at Walmart.
Previously, he helped found Theom, Inc. During his tenure with Theom he helped build a data centric cloud security platform for enterprises. Prior to Theom, Supreeth worked at Cisco, Inc. and was one of the early engineers at Tetration Analytics. Supreeth joined Tetration from Yahoo!, and has also worked at Philips and Tektronix.
Supreeth worked in the field of distributed data computing and machine learning for many years and has developed multiple formative technologies. He has been an inventor all through his professional career with over 60 US patents and many more pending patent applications. He has contributed to the fields of Cyber Security, Display Advertising (Demand side platform), Search Advertising and Search analytics.
Supreeth believes data will dominate how our experiences and behaviors will be shaped. He is passionate about enabling businesses to harness the power of data in a secure way. When enterprises are in complete control of what data they have and how they are processing the data, they can build on data driven customer/business experiences securely. “Secure cloud” transforming to a “data driven secure cloud” is his current focus.
Supreeth holds a Master’s of Science in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, India and a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from SJCE, Mysore, India. When not thinking about data security, Supreeth spends his time with family, books and classical music.
Dave Frampton
Jack of all trades
Advisors
LLIF is supported by advisors who contribute specialized expertise aligned to nonprofit stewardship, fundraising, governance, and responsible innovation.
Yi Xue
Soon after graduating from Shanghai Conservatory of music, Yi Xue arrived on U.S. soil with two suitcases and a few hundred dollars in her pocket. She began the second chapter of her life as a foreign student, then an immigrant. Yi earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance while continuing onto a doctoral program, then took a left turn into technology, completing a Master of Science at the University of Nebraska. Yi started a career in Network and Information Technology that has lasted for more than 20 years.
After the first seven years working as an engineer, Yi spent the next 15 years in increasingly senior leadership positions in high-tech companies, managing as many as 500 people, and a $1.5B professional services portfolio. She enjoyed building and launching several innovative service offerings and capabilities globally.
“Looking back, my job satisfaction came from the impact and influence I was able to have on the teams I have led and people I have worked with.“
Yi is a person who is empathetic and intuitive but also logical, rigorous, and results-oriented. She is passionate about addressing challenges and solving problems, driven not just to do well, but to do better. Yi is most inspired when a simple act creates a multiplier effect on others.
Leadership & Core Team
LLIF’s day-to-day work is led by a small team focused on infrastructure, security, product direction, research enablement, and community support.