Dick Simon is co-founder, former CEO and Board member of Sensorium Therapeutics, a biotechnology company leveraging cutting-edge chemistry, neuroscience and machine learning to develop nature-inspired psychoactive medicines for mental health. Based in Boston, MA, Sensorium is advancing drug programs and a discovery platform and closed a $31mm Series A financing led by Sante Ventures.

A serial entrepreneur and leader in advancing innovative modalities to impact the mental health crisis (including psychedelic-assisted therapies), Dick is the Chairman of the Advisory Council of Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Co-Founder and Board member of the Boston Psychedelic Research Group, Advisor to VETS, and on the Steering Committee for the Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative. Dick regularly speaks to audiences around the world to shift public perspective and reduce stigmatization related to the use of these medicines

After September 11, 2001, Dick co-founded and led the YPO Peace Action Network which leverages personal and business relationships, resources, and expertise for conflict resolution on local and global levels. He launched the kNOw THEM Initiative to raise awareness about the most dangerous four-letter word in the English language, THEM, which marginalizes, dehumanizes and creates conflict. The Initiative includes print and social media campaigns and public lectures, as well as educational curricular materials.

Dick’s work has earned him YPO’s Global Humanitarian Award, Harvard Business School’s Making a Difference Award, inclusion in Real Leaders magazine’s “100 Visionary Leaders” and in the “100 Most Influential People in Psychedelics” list. Dick holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. In 2021, Dick founded The Good Food Farm with his wife Patty and farmer Andrew Johnson. The Ashby, MA farm exists to apply regenerative agriculture principles and practices to growing nutrient dense, affordable crops.