Elysium INC

Company

Who We Are

Elysium is the first multi-dimensional immersion into a virtual smart mall.

Powered by an AI brain (Elly), this smart mall interprets a wide range of physical and verbal human data to predict and display items and services tailored to the needs and desires of each shopper, while enabling users to interact and shop together.

These capabilities, which merge eCommerce and social media functions in a single platform, have the potential to dramatically change how consumers digitally shop and socialize.

Milestones

Company History

2024

  • Began design of the AI brain (Elly)
  • Began design of combining eCommerce and social media into a digital environment

2025

  • Completed AI brain (Elly) and avatar designs
  • Developed simulations of the AI brain (Elly) and shopping in a virtual Smart Mall environment
  • Designed the Smart Mall platform
  • Company formed
  • Began attracting high-net-worth investors
  • Selected as platform solution and tech coordinator for the Federal SME eCommerce project - $25 million in potential revenue to the Company

2026

  • Engaged Sichenzia Ross as legal counsel to oversee the transition to become a public registered company
  • Brought on RRBB Accountants + Advisors
  • Began appointing Advisory Board members

June 2026 · 3 sub-teams

Team & Engineering

Business

Michael Rivers

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Sophia Xue

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Anya Savage

Executive Director of Philanthropy

Haleigh Lane

Executive Assistant

Directors

Kori Rivers

Executive Vice President of Business Development

Kori Rivers is the EVP of Business Development. Ms. Rivers is instrumental in domestic and international marketing, vendor partnerships, continued membership growth and retention. In addition, Kori assists in mergers and acquisitions. Her expertise comes from senior management positions in MedTech and SeaWorld. In those roles, she designed multi-tier strategies for service offerings, market positioning and long-range growth development. Kori holds a degree in Business and Marketing from Rollins College and will complete her EMBA at Oxford University in 2027.

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Athanasios “Dr. Thanos” Delis

Director of Technology

Athanasios Delis is an Electrical and Computer Engineer and interdisciplinary researcher based in Greece, working at the intersection of AI, biomed engineering, nanomedicine, software systems, and electronic circuit design. His experience includes university lecturing, and thesis supervision. He served in the Greek military in telecommunications and signal processing at the Hellenic Air Force, AI and digital policy work with the Hellenic National Youth Council, and founding of NeuroMediaLab. His technical profile includes Python, MATLAB, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, R, embedded systems, machine learning, deep learning, object detection, instance segmentation, CUDA, EEG time-series classification, analog and digital electronics, instrumentation amplifiers, filters, laser design for photodynamic cancer therapy, and biomedical applications. He holds an Integrated MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, scoring among the top 5%. He holds a MSc in Nanomedicine from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Minor in Healthcare Management from the American College of Greece. He is currently completing a PhD/DEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NTUA expected to be completed early 2027 and an MSc in Applied Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, expected to finish by mid-2027.

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Austin Rivers

Director of Research and Development

Austin's focus is managing the future of the technology of Elysium with current and emerging trends and research. With a heavy background in computer science, IT, AI, VR, and gaming, he brings a wealth of knowledge. His experience places him uniquely to position the Company's technology over the next 5 years. This will ensure the continued technological and marketing advantage enjoyed by the Company. He has a BA in Business Technologies from Rollins College and frequently writes published articles and reviews journals and studies regarding emerging technology across multiple industries.

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AI & 3D World Engine Team “Elly brain” & Smart Mall

Henrique Rio

AI Lead · Team Lead

ML training infrastructure and data/AI pipelines powering the Elly recommendation engine. M.S. Computer Science (Illinois Tech); distributed and federated ML, large-scale ETL on Spark and Databricks.

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Kruthik Ravikanti

3D / Unity Lead

Unity engine and 3D environments for the immersive virtual Smart Mall. B.S. CS & Neuroscience + M.S. CS, Georgia Tech (GPA 3.9); Amazon SDE intern; VR development for healthcare in Unity.

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Ismael Hernandez

Engine Developer

Engine systems and tooling in Unity on a foundation of low-level systems and ML fundamentals. CS & Economics, Columbia University; 1st place, 2024 U.S. Space Force Code & Construct Hackathon.

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Web Platform Team Website & APIs

Jiadi Jiang

Web Platform Lead · Team Lead

Platform architecture, APIs, and real-time data. More than ten years of enterprise engineering experience plus Scrum leadership.

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Sam Farmer

Front-End

React / Three.js Smart Mall UI and the corporate website front end. B.S. Computer Science, Full Sail University (top 3% of class); built the investor-facing AI Smart Mall prototype and its Elly Brain engine.

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Nghia Ha

Back-End

Back-end services plus data and e-commerce integrations. Cal Poly Pomona (B.S. CIS, M.S. Information Security); four years managing 30,000+ listings across Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Shopify.

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