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.

What distinguishes Polite is a sustained record of elevating others alongside his own achievements. As a former president of multiple collegiate organizations, undergraduate teaching assistant, and student mentor, he spent years identifying and developing talent in underrepresented communities. As COO and CTO, he brings the rare ability to understand both the technical complexities of innovation and the operational realities of scaling impact. For Elysian clients, that means working with someone who has lived the journey from gifted outsider to accomplished change-maker, and has spent a career learning how to help others navigate that same path with confidence.

Nathaniel “Nth” Bar-Fields founded Elysian Trust to turn personal challenges into systemic solutions for gifted and neurodivergent communities. After navigating early educational challenges including dyslexia, Nth learned to leverage his neurodivergence as a strategic asset in lateral thinking. His career spans roles as a Navy nuclear technologist, data analyst, and program evaluator, with studies at UC Berkeley and MIT. A member of elite high-IQ societies including OLYMPIQ and Prometheus, he has also founded several others dedicated to celebrating 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 $10 million in funding and led Elysian Trust's team to raise more than $55 million for innovative projects. As Chief Visionary Officer, he champions neurodivergent entrepreneurs and the incubators that support them, mobilizing funding and developmental resources for communities consistently overlooked by conventional systems. For Elysian clients, that means working with someone whose mission is to unlock genius in unlikely places, and build the systems around it that can actually receive it.