Our Mission
Tian is a collaborative effort involving cancer patients, caregivers, academics, specialists in physical therapy, oncologists, and health advisors. This ensures that all of its tools are relevant and meaningful in addressing the mental burden of a cancer diagnosis.
Our mission is to create a community where the cancer journey can be shared, providing a little certainty to an uncertain journey.
Meet The Team
We're a small team of health practitioners, engineers and entrepreneurs who are passionate about making the world better place
We're a small team of health practitioners, engineers and entrepreneurs who are passionate about making the world better place
Makenzie George – Founder & CEO
An ex-Investment Banker, Makenzie created Tian in 2023 after spending five years watching her mom’s journey with pancreatic cancer. Making it to year five of pancreatic cancer meant her mom was patient zero in many cases and often left her family scouring deep corners of the Internet in order to find answers on all of the possible treatment options.
Becoming obsessed with helping those along the cancer journey, Makenzie decided to become a 200-hour certified yoga instructor with a certificate through Memorial Sloan Kettering to teach yoga to cancer patients and began teaching patients and caregivers through Red Door Community (formally Gilda’s Club).
Drawing from her own experiences, Makenzie’s mission is to help others affected by cancer to have access to resources, support and community – because everyone deserves an equitable chance in this fight.
Boguslav Yanishen - CTO
A creative by nature and a strategist by trade, Bōggie applies design, culture and technology to the authentic humanizing of brands. As a partner at the agency Be Meaningful, he leads teams in branding, strategy and production of 360 integrated campaigns.
Helping clients to find meaning in the world, Boguslav’s mission to help humanity involves working with mission-driven companies and nonprofit organizations.
Dr. Angelica Alberto
Dr. Angelica’s passion lies in helping improve the general health span and quality of life in the communities around her. Her mission is to use her voice, background, and experience to help educate as many people on how to take ownership over their lives by providing them with the resources, guidance, and knowledge needed to heal and live their most optimal quality of life.
With a Bachelor’s in Kinesiology Exercise Science from California State University Northridge and her Doctorate of Physical Therapy and Master’s of Public Health from Northwestern University, Dr. Angelica’s skill set is in movement health optimization and population health management and research.
Holly Caracappa - Meditation and Breathwork Teacher
An artist crossed with an academic, Holly Caracappa has collaborated with major Hollywood firms on ventures for: Peyton Manning, Tina Fey, Dan Ariely, Kal Penn, Sir Bob Geldof and Anderson Cooper amongst others.
Drawing on her life as a professional musician with a keen relationship to sound and vibration as well as over 18 years of deep contemplative study (Gurdjieff, Daoist theory, yoga, Vedanta, breath work), Holly seeks to help others imbue more wisdom, beauty, being—and thereby themselves—into the everyday. An innate mystic certified in Vedic Meditation and Alexander Technique, she believe that art is spirituality made manifest.