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The best laid plans however often fail, and a girlfriend he had at the time convinced him to switch to medicine, specifically Radiology “for the money” because “building cyborgs is a pie-in-the-sky fantasy”. After a tumultuous university career and much wrestling with various administration, Brent ended up double majoring in Psychology and Biology and completing minors for Kinesiology and Chemistry, as well as completing a pre-med concentration.

After finishing his university career and getting to work on the universal flu vaccine for a bit as an intern, Brent finally left the university to dabble in entrepreneurship. As a serial entrepreneur with ADD, Brent enjoyed doing many businesses at once while also maintaining 2 part time jobs. The time and stress of this eventually lead him to a minor aneurysm nearly costing him his eyesight, which also led to the end of his longest relationship at the time. After being forced to leave both jobs and shutting down all his businesses due to the aforementioned health problems and blindness, Brent moved back home with his family, a single-father yet again, to take some time off, recover, and re-evaluate things. After a year and a half or so of recovery, he began to get back into the swing of things until, early in January of 2017, his bowels ruptured in the middle of the night with no warning.

That began what Brent refers to as his first year of hell. After his bowels ruptured, he spent a week in the hospital recovering. He was diagnosed with Diverticulitis, as a result of then undiagnosed Diverticulosis (little sacks forming along the bowel, prone to infection). He had to take it really easy until May of that year when he underwent surgery to have all the of the damaged and defective parts of his bowels removed. There were surgical complications however and Brent awoke from a 3 hour surgery after nearly 12 hours. For 9 hours he had been suspended from his arms, under his armpits, and in so doing became completely paralyzed in his arms below the shoulders due to extensive brachial plexii damage.

The last 6 years (at the time of this writing) have been an interesting time for Brent. He’s spent many long months recovering any movement at all; for a time he became an amateur ultramarathoner (with nothing but time, you can adapt to walk pretty far distances), walking at least 50km per day. Starting at 4am and finishing in the afternoon. He became fairly proficient in a number of languages, specifically Spanish and German, but still has a fairly decent grasp of Japanese too. He met the love of his life, and her son, and they’ve created a family of their own. He lost his beloved Father, his hero, to cancer.

Brent has always dreamed of being able to recreate his serial entrepreneurship, to scratch that itch and provide a better life for his family than just a disability pension can manage. This lead to the development of a few false starts over the years, but eventually, to this, MechAtomics Inc. After a conversation with his older brother about how there should be a version of the Olympics that just allows EVERYTHING in the field of performance enhancement and includes special Olympians as well as the technologies that enable them to function in sports effectively. It would become not just a way for countries to show off, but companies as well to show off their capabilities to enhance human health, performance, and functioning.

Since his brother has always been a huge fan of MMA and the UFC, he had said “Can you imagine the FIGHTS you could have?” and Brent said “Why bother with Olympics, why not have it just be fights, and don’t just stop at performance enhancement or prosthetics, go full on Mechsuits.”

And here we are.