Retired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn took the helm at RemoteReality after five years with Battelle Memorial Institute, the world’s largest nonprofit independent research and development organization, where he was a corporate officer and led the energy, transportation and environment division. Additional assignments with Battelle included serving as vice president of strategic planning and national security business development, and as a director on the Board of Brookhaven Science Associates.

Prior to joining Battelle, Admiral McGinn served 35 years with the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator, test pilot, aircraft carrier commanding officer, and national security strategist. His last assignment with the Navy was Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Requirements and Programs at the Pentagon. He also commanded the U.S. Third Fleet, which is responsible for some 50 million square miles of the eastern and northern Pacific Ocean. As Third Fleet Commander, he was recognized for leading great advances in operational innovation, the rapid prototyping of sea-based information technology, and international naval force experimentation and coordination.

Admiral McGinn serves as a director on the board of the National Conference on Citizenship, as a senior policy advisor to the American Council on Renewable Energy and is an international security senior fellow at the Rocky Mountain Institute. He is actively engaged in national forums to highlight the close link between energy and international security and the imperative for innovative government policies, focused investments and effective deployment of technology to create a high-quality, sustainable global environment.

Admiral McGinn has previously served as chairman of the U.S. Naval Institute Board of Directors, and served for three years as a commissioner on the National Commission on Disabled Veterans’ Benefits in Washington, D.C.

He received a B.S. degree in naval engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, attended the national security program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and was a strategic studies fellow at the U.S. Naval War College.