Advisors
AuthenticMatters is supported by a strong set of advisors, who are actively involved with the company.
Avi Karnani, Business Strategist
Avi sees companies as instruments capable of helping people and inspiring consistent, positive social change. A builder at heart, he works to create new products and partnerships that combine people, products and profit in ways that drive people to lead fuller, more satisfying lives.
Avi founded Thrive, a free personal finance management site which was acquired by LendingTree. He then co-founded Churnless, a digital strategy and product development consultancy that uses a blend of behavioral psychology and technology to help organizations build products that change human behavior.
With AuthenticMatters, Avi provides strategic guidance, general energy and awesomeness. And he’s good with numbers.
Matt Wallaert, Behavioral Psychologist
Matt is a behavioral psychologist specializing in creating functional happiness: the combination of momentary delight and long-term satisfaction with products that create behavioral change. He believes happy is as much an action and an environment as it is a feeling and believe that inspires everything he builds.
Matt most recently co-founded Churnless with Avi. Prior to that, he was the lead scientist and head of product at Thrive. Matt holds degrees in education and psychology and continues to actively publish in peer-reviewed social psychology journals on the topics of judgment and decision-making.
With AuthenticMatters, Matt provides a unique perspective into users, human behavior, audiences, consumer psychology, products, technology and an unadulterated passion for doing work worth doing.
