Kai Micah Mills

Founder & CEO

Serial entrepreneur and Thiel Fellow who founded CryoDAO and HydraDAO, funding millions of dollars of moonshot cryopreservation and replacement research. Kai dropped out of high school at 14 and sold his first company at 16. He started Cryopets to give his cat Atlas, and every pet, a chance to overcome death.

Chana Phaedra

Chief Scientific Officer

Long-time cryobiology and neuroscience researcher; former Research Associate at Alcor and Director at the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics. She led Advanced Neural Biosciences for over a decade and now drives Cryopets’ scientific strategy and protocols. She holds an M.S. in cognition and neuroscience from UT Dallas and a B.S. in psychology from the University of North Texas.

Hyrum Wolf

Head of Growth

Led marketing and content for the CryoRat and HydraDAO fundraises before joining Cryopets as the first hire to scale growth and operations. The handsome fellow you see in all of the Cryopets advertisements! Previously worked in the medical field as a laboratory and sterilization technician.

Jake Beebe

Head of Engineering

Licensed electrician with over a decade of experience building hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Now applying that hands-on expertise to Cryopets’ perfusion systems, ambulances, and field equipment.

Austin Lynch

Head of Member Care

Co-founded HydraDAO and serves as a steward at CryoDAO; his dog Datsyuk was the first pet cryopreserved at Cryopets. Previously a licensed associate alcohol-drug counselor (MAADC II), he brings both lived experience and care to member support.

Apryl Bromm

Community Manager

Community manager with experience running large online communities; she is AHA-certified in CPR and keeps the Cryopets community connected, informed, and supported.