John Dulin
CEO & Founder
Founded Modern Intelligence in 2021 and led it from seed (Bedrock, Vine, Air Street, Contrary) to Series A. Early employee at Freenome (FRMN) working on AI for cancer.
Company
Mission
To build the standard battlefield AI.
Our mission is to protect and promote American sovereignty through smarter war-fighting systems
- We build systems that organize and analyze information to make warfighter decisions faster, easier, and more reliable.
- We build smart systems that dutifully carry out commander intent.
- We enable machines to take on the warfighter's risk, without taking away or degrading the warfighter's judgement.
Leadership
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), as Head of Engineering, CIO, then COO.
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
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.
General Sir Nick Carter (Ret.)
Incoming Advisor
Former head of the UK Armed Forces, serving as Chief of the Defence Staff from 2018–2021 and previously head of the British Army from 2014–2018. Commanded 55,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan.