Our Founders

At Anthropogenic, our leadership reflects the core belief that technology—when grounded in impact and informed by intelligence—can unlock better outcomes for people, business, and the planet. In our modern world, Decision Advantage and Domain Awareness deliver winning results — Anthropogenic delivers them. Our Co-Founders, Jason Petralia and Dr. John M. Olson, bring decades of experience creating novel, scalable solutions that drive measurable value across sectors. Together, they’ve built Anthropogenic as an agile platform for turning insight into impact, helping clients mitigate risk, uncover opportunity, and deliver sustainable advantage.

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Jason Petralia

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Serial innovator and tech entrepreneur, futurist, impact investor, and global solutions pioneer with a passion for developing software and data analytics capabilities that boldly transform the planet and its inhabitants. Extraordinary portfolio of corporate and product success across a broad spectrum of sectors including: AI, climate, mobile applications, Esports, health, education, and entertainment. TEDx speaker and advisor to leading ventures, Jason is an internationally recognized leader in sustainable finance solutions.

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John M. Olson, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer

Visionary, mission-driven, and effective executive leader, CEO/Co-Founder/Chairman, General Officer, technologist/innovator with 35 years of sustained superior results at NASA, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of Defense (Air Force and Space Force), plus a decade of successful C-suite executive leadership/boards in big public (Fortune 500) & private industries focused on global impact.

Proven Success.

We’ve gathered a multidisciplinary team of technologists, operators, financiers, designers, researchers, and scientists who obsessively care about enabling a financial system that works for planet Earth.

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Let’s Talk.

To get started or learn more, contact directly or email info@anthropogenic.com and we will schedule an introductory call to review how you can achieve domain superiority.