Founded by Dan Kemmler and Saj Shah, Momentus Technologies is building the Attention Gym. Glide is where it begins, built because being there for the moment is what it all comes down to, and the moments that matter most are the ones we never train for.
Give attention the gym it never had.
Built by two who bet their careers on attention.
Dan Kemmler
Dan spent two decades helping the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies bring medicines to market. Then burnout brought him to something simpler — and deeper. Meditation became the practice. Attention became the inquiry. Momentus is what he's building from it.
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Dan led strategy and operations at three of the world's largest biotech companies — Gilead Sciences, AstraZeneca and Roche — running portfolios worth over $400 million and bringing more than a dozen medicines to the NHS and health systems worldwide. He holds an MBA from Wharton and is a member of the Harvard Flourishing at Work Network.
Since leaving corporate life, he has run a coaching practice grounded in neuroscience, positive psychology and mindfulness, trained as a UK Mental Health First-Aider, listened as a Samaritans volunteer, and committed to a serious Vipassanā meditation practice. Together, these have been a sustained study of attention from the inside.
His conclusion: the disciplines that help people flourish — clinical, cognitive, contemplative — all rest on a single underlying capacity.
Attention.
He co-founded Momentus to build the technology that trains it.
Saj Shah
Saj built a twenty-five-year career across pharmacy, law and pharmaceutical leadership — and almost missed his life doing it. He'd been wearing busyness as a badge of honour, missing the moments that mattered most. Eight years of research into joy became a book, Joynetix — Unlock Your Joy Potential. A TEDx talk reached 2.5 million people. A second talk named the foundation joy itself rests on: attention. Momentus is what he left corporate life to build.
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Saj is a dual-qualified pharmacist and lawyer — a rare combination of science and law that shaped fifteen years at AstraZeneca. He rose from Head of Legal, to senior leadership roles in Compliance and R&D — and finally found his passion in developing tech for good as one of the founding members of AstraZeneca's Digital Health department.
Beneath all of it, one question wouldn't let go: where does joy actually come from? Eight years of research followed — behavioural science, genetics, neuroscience, positive psychology. The work became a book, Joynetix — Unlock Your Joy Potential. It became a 2022 TEDx talk that reached 2.5 million people, ending that year in the top four most-watched. And then, in 2025, a second TEDx took the claim further: not just that we should invest our attention wisely, but that joy itself depends on it.
His conclusion: the moments worth being in are only available to the attention that's there to meet them.
Attention.
He left corporate life to co-found Momentus and build the technology that trains it.
A small team with an unusually wide reach: elite sport & neuroscience, immersive design, education and growth hacking.
Lily Owsley MBE
Three Olympic Games and an Olympic gold, then a Master's in Neuroscience. Lily has studied performance under pressure from both the inside and the lab.
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A three-time Olympian and Olympic Gold Medallist, Lily combines 14 years of elite international sporting experience with expertise in neuroscience and behavioural science. Her work focuses on attention, decision-making, resilience, emotional regulation and the behaviours that underpin sustained high performance.
She holds a Master's degree in Neuroscience and works at the intersection of behavioural science, technology and performance — helping athletes, coaches and organisations translate evidence-based principles into practical strategies for focus, development and thriving under pressure.
Fred Warren
For twenty years Fred has redesigned how humans and technology experience each other, for Microsoft, Disney, Virgin Atlantic and the UK Government. Glide is where that work turns to the thing every screen is really competing for.
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CEO of Fluidedge Ltd. Formerly in Applied Research and Product Development at Microsoft in spatial computing and AI, and before that a machine intelligence simulation startup. Fred has designed the future for Microsoft, Disney, Virgin Atlantic, Warner Bros. and the UK Government. Rolling Stone called his work "one of the most innovative of the decade." Bold, original, unforgettable. For twenty years he has been redesigning how humans and technology experience each other: precision, coherence, and the line between human judgement and emerging tech.
Across all of it, one question has sharpened: not just what technology can do, but what it does to the person on the other side of the screen, and to the one thing every screen now competes for — attention. He is supporting Momentus to put that craft to work on the other side of the problem, building technology that strengthens attention rather than seizing it.
Tarina Shah
A clinician, educator and strengths coach who has spent her career on one belief: people do their best when they feel well. Tarina joined Momentus to bring that to where it starts earliest.
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A clinician for over 28 years and an accredited VIA Strengths-Based Workplace Coach, Tarina has worked across health, education and wellbeing. In optometry she looked closely at how people see, and came to care just as much about how they were doing. Across community projects in Kenya and India she initiated and led work that joined schooling with care for underprivileged children, and in her coaching she has helped workplaces build cultures where people can find their focus and flourish.
Through all of it, one capacity sat underneath everything else she cared about, whether a child ready to learn or an adult ready to do their best work: the ability to settle, and to attend.
It is what brought her to Momentus, to help build the thing that trains attention at its earliest stage.
Cory Warfield
A LinkedIn Top Voice with a 600,000-strong following and a newsletter read by hundreds of thousands, Cory has spent a career backing what technology should be for.
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Cory is a serial founder, adviser and operator. He taught himself machine learning, relearned to code, and co-founded a B2B SaaS company that he scaled and ultimately exited following a Forbes feature and national recognition. The hard-won lesson from that journey, that building the technology is only half the battle, became the work he does now: a three-time "Mentor in Excellence", Entrepreneur in Residence and former Managing Director at the Founder Institute, he helps founders avoid the expensive mistakes he made raising capital.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Tech For Good, one of the most widely read technology publications on LinkedIn, and holds growth and advisory roles across a number of mission-led companies. The thread through all of it is a conviction about what technology is supposed to serve: people, and the things worth giving our energy to.
That is what drew him to Momentus. In a market built to capture the one resource everyone is fighting over — attention, Glide is built to give it back. He joined to help more people spend it on what matters.
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