Gerald Vassar is the President and CEO of Lakeside Educational Network, where he has spent over 41 years building one of the most comprehensive trauma-informed education organizations in the United States. Throughout his career, Gerry has created and led social, emotional, educational, and clinical training programs that have reached thousands of individuals, families, organizations, and systems of care across the country.

Gerry’s latest initiative with LakeCloud stems from a fundamental belief that immersive, accessible education can transform the way we understand and respond to trauma in any environment. Using virtual reality and AI, Gerry is turning decades of expertise into a next-generation training platform designed to make mental health education meaningful, practical, and accessible. Complete with a trauma-informed social network and a private, secure AI companion, LakeCloud is establishing the future of effective and sustainable mental health education for every home, classroom, workplace, system, and human.