Frank D’Agnese, PhD
President/Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder

Dr. Frank D’Agnese is an internationally recognized Earth Systems Scientist and the innovator of the Earth Knowledge Integrated Planetary Intelligenceᵀᴹ Platform, Petascale+ Digital Twin of the Earth and the 300+ Global Change and Sustainability Indicator Framework.  Frank is a systems expert continually focused on the multi-dimensional systems involved in natural, social and economic sustainability and global change. His life’s work and passion involve helping to save our Earth through providing understandable and actionable business intelligence for the best decision-making.  He focuses on leveraging the internet and cloud computing as tools for empowering cross-functional agility in organizations to provide better access and share information for efficient and effective business decisions. Frank is known for creating and facilitating large, interdisciplinary and multi-organizational teams, developing a common understanding among participants, critical in building our Earth Knowledge Network, Digital Twin and Indicators. 

Frank’s innovative vision of the Earth Knowledge Platform, which he began architecting in the late 1990s, foreshadowed foundational cloud computing components that Microsoft, IBM and Google later built. His work involving first-to-market design and implementation of the Earth Knowledge Portal with Google provided a massive information hub of live-steaming natural, social and economic information which was accessed by over 80% countries of the world. Frank’s work has informed important decisions by The White House; numerous federal, state and municipal government agencies; and industry leaders worldwide. Before co-founding Earth Knowledge, Frank was a senior level manager at the US Geological Survey, creating and directing multi-million-dollar technical programs of national and international significance, all of which involved earth system science, big data, geographic information integration and enterprise collaboration. His leadership in these areas has resulted in over 100 publications and presentations.

Frank holds a BS (summa cum laude), ME and PhD in Geological Engineering, Environmental Science, Earth Systems Modeling, and Information Management from the Colorado School of Mines.