Meet the team

Joseph Jacks (JJ) is the Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital. Since 2018, JJ has directed OSS to lead more than 40 rounds of inception / seed stage investments representing over $200 million in funding. OSS has also played a critical role in driving the creation of over $20 billion in portfolio value creation over the last 5 years.

Previously, JJ was a founding contributor to the CNCF through his donation of KubeCon (created and led by Kismatic in 2014, the first enterprise-focused commercial Kubernetes company).

Stuart is an anesthesiologist and quantum consciousness theorist whose work focuses on the nature of consciousness, the mechanism of anesthesia, and the quantum biology of microtubules. In the 1980s, he developed models of microtubule information processing within neurons that challenged mainstream paradigms in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. In the mid-1990s, alongside Sir Roger Penrose, he co-developed the Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) theory, which proposes that consciousness arises from quantum vibrations and computations orchestrated inside brain microtubules. His research also explores anesthetic action on microtubules and the clinical application of transcranial ultrasound for mental health and neurological conditions.

Stuart earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969 and his M.D. from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia in 1973. At the University of Arizona since 1975, he became a professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies in 1999, and has served as Professor Emeritus since 2003. He founded The Science of Consciousness conference in 1994—the longest-running interdisciplinary conference in the field—and co-founded the Penrose Institute in 2017. He has written or edited five books, including Ultimate Computing (1987), and published over 100 scientific articles and book chapters.

To further explore his career and theories on quantum biology in the brain, watch Is Your Brain A Quantum Orchestra Tuned To The Universe?, which highlights his foundational work on microtubules and consciousness.

Jack is a theoretical physicist and computational biophysicist whose work focuses on tubulin and the microtubules built from it. His group designs drugs for cancer and neurodegenerative disease using computer simulation, and studies the electrical, electromagnetic and mechanical properties of microtubules. More recently, his research has turned to how quantum and electromagnetic effects might shape memory and consciousness.

Jack earned his M.Sc. in theoretical physics summa cum laude in Poznań, Poland, and his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from the University of Calgary in 1983. He has been a full professor of physics at the University of Alberta since 1993. He held the Allard Chair in Experimental Oncology at the Cross Cancer Institute from 2005 to 2020, and he has been a professor of bioengineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin since 2017. He has published more than 600 papers and 12 books and holds 7 patents. He also designed CCI-001, a drug in clinical trials for metastatic bladder cancer.

Chelsea Wei serves as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at OSS Capital. She brings extensive experience in financial management and strategic leadership.

Prior to joining OSS Capital, Chelsea held several senior financial positions across prominent organizations. She served as Financial Controller at Felix Capital, where she managed financial operations for the London-based venture capital firm. Before that, she was Fund Controller at Frazier Healthcare Partners, overseeing funds’ operations and financial strategies for healthcare investments. Chelsea also gained valuable experience as an Auditor at PwC and held fund accounting leadership roles at Freestone Capital Management and UMB Bank.

Chelsea is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and has passed Level I of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Utah State University. She is fluent in English and Chinese.

Natasha is a quantum physicist and computational neuroscientist focused on the intersection between the two. From conscious influence in quantum random number generators to the fractal construction of neural and neuronal processes, her background probes the different ways conscious and quantum information are expressed.

At QLT, Natasha helps guide the direction of science and company. In 2025, she received her bachelor’s in Physics and Mandarin Chinese from Princeton University, and in 2026 earned her master’s in Brain and Cognition from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She also works with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and serves as Director of Labs for the Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network.

Daniel is a Materials Scientist by training, with interests in quantum effects in biology, the foundations of physics, and consciousness. During graduate work at UCLA these topics converged on the centriole, an animal organelle known as the ‘cell brain’ that appears well-suited for quantum processing. Understanding its function offers a new generation of quantum nanotechnology for humanity—through a close analysis of our own structure.