Go-to-market · Founder · Researcher · Writer
John G. Dodson
I help the world trust its technology, its food and its supply chains. I lead sales and go-to-market for AI and SaaS companies, build compliance software at SIMPL, study One Health across whole bioregions, and write stories about people finding their way to freedom.
What I do
Three threads, one idea: healthy places make healthy people.
Work
Technology people can trust
For 20 years I’ve made sure complex systems can be trusted, from aerospace to food to AI and robotics. I lead go-to-market for AI companies and build the SIMPL compliance platforms.
Research
Bioregional One Health
One Health in the mountain gorilla parks of Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC, with Makerere University, Gorilla Doctors and the African Union of Conservationists. I also study the coffee, cocoa and tea that grow around them.
Write
Fiction & essays
Novels of love, treachery and borders, from Cold War Germany to the Sonoran desert. I also write short fiction and essays on health, AI and sustainability.
~1,100
mountain gorillas remain on earth, all of them in four parks along the borders of Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC. They share that landscape with farms, livestock and some of the world’s best coffee.
Current research
Measuring the health of a whole landscape
With Makerere University, Gorilla Doctors and the African Union of Conservationists, I’m building a Bioregional One Health Index for the Virunga and Bwindi landscapes. It tracks risk and preparedness where people, wildlife and livestock meet.
Latest from the Journal
The novel · Coming September 2027
Iron Curtains
A story of love, treachery and freedom in Germany, 1989. On her first assignment as an Army counterintelligence agent, Tina finds a boss drinking himself to death and an East German family desperate to reach the West before the wall falls.