Our Founders
Our Founders
Jose Roberto Kullok (Founder, Chief Science Officer), Seasoned inventor/scientist in the field of Life Sciences and Learning. Jose was granted US patents in the areas of ‘Physiological Mechanical Synergism’ and ‘Visual Perception’ and has a number of additional patents pending. Jose has also published papers in various scientific journals. Jose was the co-founder and VP of R&D at Epoch Innovations Inc., a neuroperformance company that developed the first neuro cardio-visual feedback technology to ameliorate dyslexia. In his current capacity in BrightStar Learning, Jose invents new technologies, in charge of the company’s science, draft patents, participates in product development and designs clinical testing protocols.
Hans Wackwitz(Founder, Chairman), Mr. Wackwitz is the founder of Partners in Equity (2003 – present). Partners in Equity is a shareholder in BrightStar Benelux, a neuroperformance company based on Kullok technology. Mr. Wackwitz worked for Bankers Trust Company and Paribas Capital Markets in New York, Dallas, Hong Kong and London from 1979 until 1994. In 1994 he joined the Board of Cobepa in Brussels to lead its Private Equity and Venture Capital business. Mr. Wackwitz is a graduate of the State University of Groningen and has an MBA from Columbia University in New York.
A Personal Note from Jose Kullok
Welcome to BrightStar website. My name is Jose Roberto
Kullok and together with my father Saul Kullok, and my
partner Hans Wackwitz, we have developed an innovative,
user-friendly, web-based application called BrightStar
Reader™. BrightStar Reader is designed to help people of
all ages overcome reading difficulties and disabilities.
Effective use of Reader promotes substantive
neuroplasticity changes in the brain in a relatively short
period of time (eight weeks). As such, BrightStar Reader
works in cooperation with professionals, teachers and
education specialists to complement the effects of their own
learning and remediation methods. The technology of
Reader was not conceived overnight. Quite the contrary, it
is the end-result of decades of experience and research
with one singular purpose in mind: help people to develop
their literacy skills and expand their educational
horizons in order for them to have more opportunities,
realize their potential and experience a brighter future.
As founders of the company, we want to assure you that we
are committed to continued investment of resources in
research with leading institutions in order to constantly
assure and improve the quality and effectiveness of our
technologies. We are committed to deliver what we call
’technologies-with-responsibility‘.
We are honored and grateful to join hands with teachers,
educators and scientists all over the world that invest
their dreams, time and efforts to impact the world through
better education.
Yours Truly,
Jose Kullok
A Personal Note from Hans Wackwitz
My story starts in 2003 when my wife and I first heard
about BrightStar. We were looking for a solution for our
son who was diagnosed as dyslexic.
After completing BrightStar’s program and owing to its
effectiveness, we were able to get our son up to speed
with his peers and into an excellent school. We
contemplated this as a miracle at the time.
We obtained the rights to license this technology and
opened a center in Holland, as back in those days only a
clinical version of the application existed. We have run
this for years and changed the lives of thousands of
children and adults. As the scale of the issue is rather
large, we resolved to upgrade this technology and also
make it accessible worldwide via the internet. We started
the development process two years ago and are now pleased
to share it with you.
The Kullok family has worked on this technology for
decades and this is our first product that can be offered
online. We hope you will benefit as much as the many that
were kind to share their testimonials and experiences with
us.
Sincerely,
Hans Wackwitz