Our Team

Dr. DP Prakash, Co-CEO of Youtopian, is passionate about creating growth engines for leaders in enterprises and education and accelerating the innovation economy. Addressing some of the most complex business problems facing corporations and academia through innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and eXtended Reality (XR), DP leads diverse projects in Metaverse Digital Transformation. 

With three decades of Technology experience in the semiconductor industry, DP has led 10 generations of Moore’s law scaling. As a Technologist at IBM and as a former Global Head of Innovation at Global Foundries, DP has previously held numerous leadership roles spanning Research, Development and Manufacturing of nanotechnology products.

As a Digital Orchestrator (DOer) of innovation technologies, DP helps leaders in Enterprise and Education stay focused on business outcomes that matter. With deep first-hand experiences and understanding of pain points and a worldwide ecosystem of innovation solution providers, DP provides unbiased guidance for clients to find best fit solutions. 

As a recipient of two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards at IBM in Research and Manufacturing, DP Prakash holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles, an MBA with honors from Jack Welch Management Institute, a certificate in Film Producing from UCLA School of Film & Television, a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a certificate on leading Innovation at scale from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

DP likes to do Ashtanga Yoga and practices Hwa Rang Do under the guidance of a living legend, Grandmaster Taejoon Lee. DP lives in New York with his spouse and two children.

Lisa Sibilia, Co-CEO of Youtopian, is leading digital transformation in education and enterprise to upskill talents at a global scale. Lisa is leading the shift to hybrid course design and experiential innovation across several top ranked universities. 

Lisa Sibilia is a former Disney Company cast member with over a decade in education management and is a professional artist. She graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business LEAD Corporate Innovation Executive Education Program, received her MA in Educational Leadership & Administration from Montclair State University and her BA from The Pennsylvania State University with Communication Arts & Sciences degree. 

Lisa was recognized by the Stanford LEAD program for the 2019 Intellectual Contribution Award for Neuroscience in Customer Experience Design.  She is the Co-Chair of the Stanford LEAD Mentor Network supporting 700+ leaders worldwide across 60+ countries. She was awarded the Governor’s Educator of the Year honor in New Jersey for her excellence in management of internal and external stakeholders advancing interdisciplinary collaboration through dynamic instruction, and as District Education Committee Chair for an arts partnership connecting over a dozen schools. Lisa is a member of Pennsylvania State University’s Great Valley Advisory Board.

She enjoys playing sports and is a fan of continually winning 1:1 basketball against her husband, Vinny, as their Vizsla-Lab mix dog, Bones, cheers them on. She loves spending time with her family and friends, especially laughing, preparing homemade eggplant parmigiana dinners, and seeing her incredibly talented nieces and nephews.

Carolyn Cole is the COO of the Biotechnology, Healthcare and Lifelong/Long Life Learning Division at Youtopian. Her current work includes transforming medical and nursing education through the application of AI and XR technologies.  Carolyn is creating a 100-year curriculum to modernize lifelong and long life learning.

Her expertise covers many areas that consider the social interaction network interfaces between humans, machines, and technology.  Another area of focus is psychological sciences including neuroscience and biological minds.  Always a pathfinder, Carolyn is immersed in digital innovative technologies to transform how we live and work.

Carolyn has leadership experience in managing many international medical science and biotechnology innovation teams. She has participated in research and clinical trials related to cancer diagnostic methods and treatments and contributed to the development of colon cancer prevention medication.  She was the Co-Founder and CEO of a specialty medical practice.

Carolyn is a published author in numerous scientific journal articles and medical textbook chapters. Carolyn has a BA (Psychology) and BS (Nursing) from Stanford University, an MSN in Psychiatric Nursing from Yale university, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Carolyn’s other interests range include architecture and design, animals, landscaping, gardening and gourmet cooking.

Paul Marca, Chief Education Evangelist at Youtopian, is a world leader in education transformation for enterprises and academia. He guides the Youtopian strategy to engage, educate, train and prepare the gaming generation for the innovation economy.

As former Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Paul spent 32 years in senior leadership roles at Stanford University. He directed a team of 80 professionals guiding a portfolio of over 250 graduate and professional courses annually. He has been instrumental in developing and implementing an international portfolio for clients in countries including Singapore, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, Brazil and the Middle East. 

Paul is currently Principal at Parallax Global Advisors, LLC, a firm which provides strategic consulting for those seeking to transform education through technology.