ARTIST, EXPLORER, and ENTREPRENEUR

Jeremy McKane comes from an unusual background for someone building AI infrastructure—he's an artist and a dyslexic who sees systems differently than most.

That different angle has become his edge. Where others see complexity, Jeremy sees patterns. Where traditional approaches get stuck in linear thinking, his mind naturally finds connections across disciplines—technology, economics, policy, and nature.

This perspective led him to a question that seemed impossible: How do you turn a marine protected area from a financial liability into a financial asset? The answer became OCN.ai—an AI verification platform that aggregates data from 50 satellite constellations to monitor seagrass ecosystems, enabling governments to monetize conservation through verified carbon credits.

Collaborating with UNDP, Jeremy is replicating this model across 150+ coastal nations, and another collaboration with Microsoft Research on hardware and software strategies that make ocean protection economically inevitable.

The same multi-source intelligence technology that monitors oceans from space powers Project “No More Secrets“—a tool that helps founders and CEOs walk into every meeting fully prepared. Same AI architecture, different application: one watches the planet, the other watches the people you're about to sit across from.

Jeremy is a member of The Explorers Club, has spoken at the United Nations, and previously co-founded Ultramarine on Sir Richard Branson‘s Necker Island where he has for years brought thought leaders to focus on execution. He has been featured in Virgin.com, Dallas Morning News, and Dallas Innovates. "Being dyslexic taught me that the conventional path isn't always the right one. I've spent my career building systems that match how I actually think—pulling together data from everywhere to see what others miss. Whether it's satellite imagery of seagrass or intelligence on the person across the table, the pattern recognition is the same." —Jeremy McKane