Meet The Team
At E-ME, we are a team of builders, problem-solvers, and innovators united by a common goal: creating technology that empowers people to make sense of their digital world.
We bring expertise in AI, data organization, and human-centered design to develop tools that simplify complex information, enhance productivity, and help individuals and businesses stay in control of their time and knowledge.
Our Approach
Multidisciplinary Expertise – Our team combines backgrounds in AI, engineering, UX design, and business strategy to build technology that works for real people.
User-Driven Innovation – We design with a privacy-first, user-led philosophy, ensuring our tools align with what people actually need.
Collaboration & Impact – Whether working with businesses or individuals, we focus on creating meaningful, integrated solutions that make technology feel effortless.
Contact us at info@encyclome.com to learn more or collaborate with us.
Ky is a founding member of Alaska Version 3 engaging Alaskans in the creation of our Next Alaska economy; and a partner of Alyeska Venture Management that created Alaska’s first seed fund for startup ventures, the Alaska Accelerator Fund. Ky has extensive experience in industrial products, startup community development, VC and angel investing; and startup company formation, growth and exits. Currently he is consulting on economic development projects, co-founding two technology startups and assisting many others.
Areas of specific expertise include industrial manufacturing, product management (mining, construction, water, wastewater, nondestructive testing, X-ray imaging, iIoT, and watercraft), university technology transfer and commercialization, intellectual property management, and early-stage investing.
Recently Ky was the University of Alaska Fairbanks Technology Commercialization Officer; and prior to that, a founding board member of the Launch Alaska Accelerator, and the Hickel Professor of Strategic Leadership and Entrepreneurship at Alaska Pacific University.
Ky has a BS in mechanical engineering and an MBA in technology management. Ky grew up in Alaska, has two family startups (kids) that have launched. He is active in community development programs that support community resilience, the next generation of Alaskans and their opportunities including the 2021 Alaska Startup Week.
Erik Dahl is a technologist at heart with a strong interest in AI evolution and tools. Brings the technical capabilities to the Encyclomedia team as the primary developer and operations guy. Brings with him a rich background in large scale corporate system architecture and design and development as well as experience with data management, machine learning, and operations. Born and raised in Alaska, CS Degree from University of Oregon, now living in Delaware but having also resided in the UK and California.
Why is this work important:
Something is needed to help humans remain empowered and relevant in a world more and more dominated by corporate interests, “walled-gardens” of functionality and ubiquitous machine intelligence. The only way this can be positive is if we can build a partnership that brings together the power of AI and the power of humans together. Step 1 is to begin to break down the walls that isolate and control our information so that we are free to use and find what we need when we need it. Step 2 is to employ AI technologies to bridge the systems and enable us to operate faster with fewer barriers. Step 3 is to make this the norm and enable each of us to decide when, where, and how our data are used and shared.
Driven to make a positive impact through collaborative team management and systems thinking, I thrive when working as a part of a motivated team to solve big messy problems.
Starting my entrepreneurial journey at 19, I’ve always been driven by a passion for creating systems that make a tangible impact. Being part of the operations team for E-ME is a natural extension of that drive.
Information has become fragmented into hundreds of different silos throughout all of our virtual world and I have an innate drive to create shape, meaning, and order from this madness.