Every idea starts with a person.
Ours was my father.

Jerin Zachariah

Founder & CEO

Jerin Zachariah brings over a decade of experience managing clinical research operations, regulatory compliance, and study design within demanding academic health systems. Drawing on his frontline experience as an EMT with the Pleasantville Volunteer Ambulance Corps, where he witnessed the profound failure of a medical model built solely to respond to crises, he founded Mentage to build infrastructure for the space before a medical emergency. His work culminated in MEVA, a Montessori-inspired cognitive wellness platform that uses brief, hands-on, real-world activities to help older adults track their cognitive patterns over time in a dignified, non-clinical way. Today, he continues his advocacy for proactive, pre-crisis cognitive support as an active member of the Connecticut Alzheimer's and Dementia Coalition.

Aimee Pathyil, PA-C

Chief Health Education Officer

Aimee Pathyil brings over fifteen years of experience as an emergency medicine provider at Northwell Health, along with her role as an adjunct professor at Pace University, to her position as Chief Health Education Officer. Throughout her career in the emergency department, Aimee has translated complex medical information for worried families navigating a healthcare system that often fails them. At Mentage, she applies her frontline experience to address the "Hesitation Gap," translating the science of cognitive wellness into clear and respectful language for older adults. Driven by her passion for serving populations that have traditionally been overlooked by standard cognitive assessments, Aimee ensures that MEVA's educational resources are culturally responsive, accessible, and designed to help families confidently monitor their own cognitive patterns without anxiety.

Karen Joy Abraham, MS

Academic Research Collaborator & Co-Principal Investigator

Karen Joy Abraham understands how people navigate uncertainty, especially in high-stakes moments in healthcare. As a lecturer at Pace University and a veteran of User Experience (UX) research teams at Amazon and Ipsos, Karen specializes in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). She studies how technology can either support or alienate people when they are feeling vulnerable. Karen is a vital academic partner for Mentage. She serves as the Co-Principal Investigator for the collaborative HCI research between Pace University and Mentage. Her work ensures that the MEVA platform is not just scientifically grounded, but deeply human. Karen's research, which bridges academic rigor and practical product design, has been published in leading venues such as the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). An AMIA LEAD Fund Scholar and Pace University's Outstanding Student of the Year, she brings unparalleled expertise to ensuring that Mentage's tools empower families and older adults to feel safe, capable, and in control.

Jaison C. Varghese

Co-Lead, Product & Marketing

Jaison C. Varghese brings over a decade of experience in scaling complex enterprise digital platforms for Fortune 500 companies to his collaborative role in product and marketing at Mentage. Throughout his career, he has specialized in transforming intimidating technology into seamless, intuitive user experiences. Jaison joined Mentage to tackle a significant design failure he observed in the healthcare market: digital tools for older adults are often patronizing, confusing, or clinically cold. As a strong advocate for human-centered design, he collaborates with the research and engineering teams to ensure MEVA's interface respects its users' intelligence. By applying his rigorous enterprise discipline to Mentage's community outreach and Montessori-aligned digital environment, he helps create a calm, friction-free experience that provides older adults and their families with the dignified clarity they deserve.

Jeff Joseph

Head of Technology and Product

Jeff brings 15+ years of experience leading global technology and operations through hypergrowth. At Indeed, he helped scale the company from roughly 1,000 to 19,000+ employees, owning technology operations and infrastructure across a large global portfolio spanning 20+ countries. He governed a substantial budget, led teams across multiple regions, and drove the kind of operational improvements that come from building systems and processes at scale. Today he runs ZConsult, advising clients on technology operations, infrastructure, and operating-model design for organizations working at a global scale. His career has spanned disciplines that don't always sit together: building and scaling teams, architecting infrastructure and systems, managing vendors and partners, and translating complex technical work into clear strategy. That range is what lets him keep Mentage's many moving parts aligned around a single goal: a conviction that the people who built a life and raised a family deserve to be seen and cared for as their needs change. At Mentage, Jeff brings that conviction to building meaningful products for caregivers, older adults, and the clinicians who walk alongside them.