John Dulin
CEO & Founder
Founded Modern Intelligence in 2020 and led it from seed (Bedrock, Vine, Air Street, Contrary) to Series A. Early employee at Freenome (FRMN) working on AI for cancer.
Team
Leadership
Our leadership combines deep experience in AI, engineering, operations, finance, technology investing, and military command. Together, they give us the technical rigor, operational discipline, strategic perspective, and mission-driven judgment to build the standard for battlefield AI and be the best at serving warfighters.
We have raised more than $22M in venture capital from Exponential, Oxford Funds, Bedrock, Vine Ventures, Contrary, Air Street, Caffeinated, Champion Hill, Swell, Myelin, and others.
Executive Team
Brendan Higgins
Chief Technology Officer
Google engineering leader and manager of 10 years. Invented the Linux Kernel automated testing framework that tests over 10 billion devices globally. Responsible for testing the OS on every Google production server.
Arthur Sabintsev
Chief Operating Officer
Physicist, engineer and two-time founder. Co-founded Grove, the team behind Pocket Network ($1bn+ token market cap), CIO, COO, then CEO.
Rohit Rana
Chief Financial Officer
Thirteen-plus years in public-market investment management at Platinum Capital Management (London). Founded and scaled a growth equity fund as Portfolio Manager.
Karina Lipsman
Vice President of Government Relations
National security leader with 14+ years of experience across the defense and intelligence sectors, corporate strategy, and government affairs. Previously held strategy and innovation roles at Northrop Grumman and Peraton. Built bipartisan coalitions to advance federal and state legislation. Former congressional candidate.
Board and Advisors
Francis Pedraza
Chairman
Founder, President and Executive Chairman of Invisible Technologies; raised $100m at a $2bn+ valuation in 2025. Earlier founded Everest, backed by Peter Thiel.
Jonathan Cohen
Board Member
CEO of Oxford Square Capital and Oxford Lane Capital. Previously led technology research teams at Wit SoundView, Merrill Lynch, UBS and Smith Barney. Holds an MBA from Columbia University.
Admiral John Richardson (Ret.)
Incoming Advisor
Retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral and Chief of Naval Operations from 2015–2019. Previously led the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Serves on the boards of Boeing, BWX Technologies and Constellation Energy.
Dave Goulet
Advisor
Defense and technology leader with more than two decades of U.S. Navy experience, including Naval Special Warfare. He has extensive expertise in military communications, technology integration, and operational support. He has been recognized for his contributions to the Warfighter.