Gary Mendell

Gary Mendell is the founder and CEO of Shatterproof, a national nonprofit focused on reversing the course of the addiction crisis in America. After losing his son Brian in 2011, Gary founded Shatterproof a year later to spare other families from the tragedy his had suffered.

Mendell has created solutions to ensure that a substance use disorder is prevented and treated for generations to come, including providing support for people in recovery and removing the shame and stigma associated with the disease of addiction.

He has testified in front of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on Treating Substance Misuse in America. He has appeared on CNBC and MSNBC as well as been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Mendell is an advisory member of the National Quality Forum’s Technical Expert Panel for Opioid and Opioid Use Disorder and The Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

Mendell received his B.S. from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.