Richard Sprague

An accomplished biohacker and longevity expert, active in the Quantified Self movement since the beginning, Richard Sprague specializes in the benefits of DIY personal health testing and analysis using tools available to everyone.

He is currently CEO of Opticare AI, a healthtech startup that provides a general health assessment, quickly and painlessly using a high-resolution photo of the eyes. Using a powerful deep learning AI algorithm, Opticare AI compares retinal images to over 30 million others in its dataset, offering a powerful, science-based view of overall circulatory and nervous system health.

He is the long-time publisher of the popular weekly newsletter, Personalscience.com, with useful news and ideas about the application of the scientific method to personal rather than professional purposes. Personal Science Week explores topics ranging from genomics and microbiome testing and continuous glucose monitoring to AI and longevity research. Richard also writes an "Unpopular Science" series that examines controversial health-related science topics.

As a former executive at Microsoft, Apple, and numerous startups, he has managed software product teams in both the US (Silicon Valley) and Asia (Tokyo, Beijing), always focused on the end consumer experience, to make technology easy and accessible to normal people everywhere.

He completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.