Divergent Minds. Decisive Results.

A physics prodigy who entered college at 14, Polite earned his B.S. in Physics from Southern University A&M College at 18. Inducted shortly after into Volant, Elysian's high-IQ society, he conducted research as a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where his work focused on small and wide-angle X-ray scattering instrumentation. He later pursued a second B.S. in mechanical engineering and spent nearly four years at IBM as a DevOps specialist before transitioning into institutional advisory work.

Polite has a long record of developing other people. As a former president of multiple collegiate organizations, an undergraduate teaching assistant, and a student mentor, he spent years identifying and developing talent in underrepresented communities. As COO and CTO, he works across both the technical side of new projects and the operational work of scaling them. For Elysian clients, that means working with someone who started as a gifted outsider, became an accomplished leader, and has spent his career helping others do the same.

Nathaniel “Nth” Bar-Fields founded Elysian Trust to create systemic solutions for gifted and neurodivergent communities, drawing on his own experience. He faced early educational challenges including dyslexia and learned to use his neurodivergence as a strength in lateral thinking. His career includes roles as a Navy nuclear technologist, data analyst, and program evaluator, with studies at UC Berkeley and MIT. A member of high-IQ societies including OLYMPIQ and Prometheus, he has also founded several others that celebrate cognitive pluralism across race, class, and neurotype.

A top graduate of Fort Hays State University's Grant Proposal Writing program, Nth has personally secured over $70 million in funding and led Elysian Trust's team to raise more than $107 million for innovative projects. As Chief Visionary Officer, he supports neurodivergent entrepreneurs and the incubators that serve them, raising funding and development resources for communities that conventional systems overlook. For Elysian clients, that means working with someone whose mission is to find talent in unlikely places and build the systems that can support it.