Executive Leadership
Jesse Gould
Founder & President of Heroic Hearts Project
After being deployed as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan three times, he founded the Heroic Hearts Project in 2017 to spearhead the acceptance and use of ayahuasca therapy as a means of addressing the current mental health crisis among veterans.
Zach Riggle
Chief Operations Officer
Zach’s core purpose is to show people there is a better way to heal, and a better way to live. He attended MIT as a Sloan Fellow for Innovation and Global Leadership. Following graduation, Zach stayed on at MIT as a research assistant in support of a multi-year, DoD-funded project Military Psychological Health Enterprise: Post-Traumatic Stress Innovations (PTSI).