Meet David Levine.

David Levine is the founder of the Kinship Intelligence Institute and the registered agent for WV DUNA. He is a product, operations, and systems-engineering executive who has spent three decades building companies at the edge of new technology, from the early commercial web to big-data geomatics, fintech, blockchain, and agentic AI.

His connection to West Virginia runs deep. Appointed by then-Governor Manchin, he served as Director of Technology & Transformation in the West Virginia Development Office, building a role in state government for technology-based economic development, helping small businesses and startups raise capital, and recruiting technology companies to create jobs in the state. WV DUNA continues that work: putting West Virginia entrepreneurs at the center of the agentic economy rather than at its margins.

He has founded and led companies including Geostellar (cloud-based solar geomatics), Indeco Union (blockchain smart-city infrastructure), Ultraprise (the first whole-loan trading platform for the secondary market, and the origin of the MISMO data standards still in use today), and Gamebryo (a massively-multiplayer game platform partnered with Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Sony). More recently he led engineering communications and relations at Solana Labs and managed big-data, agentic-AI, and cloud infrastructure work for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

His work has been featured on CBC, Fox Business News, and in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company, and he holds patents in fintech, video-game technology, and big-data geomatics. He studied philosophy at Yale, where he earned a National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar award.