Eric Klien – Non Executive Director

Eric Klien is an entrepreneur and humanist with a unique track record. From 1986-1991 he was employed by Time Trend Software a stock analysis company, successfully building a modest wage by playing the stock market and retiring to Las Vegas . During this time Eric became an expert in cryonics and served as a member of the Alcor Investment Advisory Board. A libertarian, in 1993-1994 he proposed the Atlantis/Oceanus project as an umbrella for independent state identity, also initiating through a personal pledge the “not a penny more” campaign to reduce the federal deficit by public donation. After selling his interests in several large on- line ventures that he had developed ,including for matchmaking, employee scheduling, web hosting and sales leads, Eric dedicated his energy to the Lifeboat Foundation, a non -profit think tank that he established in 2002. The Lifeboat mission formally defined the need to avert destruction even at catastrophic scale. Today the foundation retains a notable advisory board of 1,500 with outlook in significant fields including human life extension, artificial intelligence and planetary defense, and continues to engage directly for insight into the dangers that confront the modern world.