SportsBrain Leadership

Meet the Cofounders

Nicholas Dunkley leads SportsBrain as Chief Executive Officer. Adrian Dunkley is Co-founder and AI Researcher. Together they are building the Caribbean's most advanced AI sports platform.

Chief Executive Officer

Nicholas Dunkley

ND Nicholas Dunkley, Chief Executive Officer of SportsBrain

Nicholas Dunkley

Chief Executive Officer

Role CEO, SportsBrain
Focus Caribbean Sport Strategy
Based Kingston, Jamaica

Chief Executive Officer · Co-founder

Driving SportsBrain's Commercial Vision

Nicholas Dunkley is the Chief Executive Officer of SportsBrain — the Caribbean's first AI Sports Lab — and is responsible for the company's commercial strategy, client partnerships, and day-to-day operations. He co-founded SportsBrain alongside his brother Adrian Dunkley, bringing the commercial intelligence and leadership necessary to translate world-class AI research into real impact for Caribbean athletes.

With over eight years of experience spanning financial analysis, strategic planning, customer success, and business development, Nicholas brings a sharp, data-led approach to leadership. He has built his career at the intersection of numbers and people — mastering the discipline of translating complex data into clear commercial decisions. His experience running customer success and business insights operations across the Caribbean gives him a deep understanding of what organisations in the region need to grow.

As CEO, Nicholas drives SportsBrain's partnerships with Caribbean sports federations, national associations, youth development programmes, schools, and government bodies. His goal is to ensure that every organisation in the Caribbean — regardless of budget or size — has access to the performance intelligence tools that elite programmes in wealthier nations take for granted.

Nicholas is a believer in the extraordinary potential of Caribbean sport. He has seen, first-hand, what happens when talented athletes are given the right infrastructure, the right tools, and the right opportunities. SportsBrain is the vehicle he and his brother built to give every Caribbean athlete a fair chance at greatness.

Core Competencies

Business Strategy Financial Analysis Customer Success Budget and Planning Caribbean Markets AI Business Applications Sports Domain Expertise
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"Every Caribbean athlete deserves the same tools, the same data, and the same intelligent advantage as the best-funded programmes in the world."

Nicholas Dunkley, CEO — SportsBrain
8+ Years in Business & Analytics Leadership
2024 Joined SportsBrain as CEO
1st AI Sports Lab in Latin America and the Caribbean
J$7M Government Grant Secured for AI Sports Research

Co-founder & AI Researcher

Adrian Dunkley

AD Adrian Dunkley, Co-founder and AI Researcher at SportsBrain

Adrian Dunkley

Co-founder & AI Researcher

Role Co-founder, SportsBrain
Background Physicist & AI Scientist
Based Kingston, Jamaica

Co-founder · Physicist · AI Scientist

The AI Research Foundation of SportsBrain

Adrian Dunkley is the Co-founder and AI Researcher behind SportsBrain. A Physicist by academic training, he has spent over fifteen years developing artificial intelligence systems with real-world impact — building the scientific and engineering foundation on which SportsBrain's technology rests.

Adrian co-founded SportsBrain alongside his brother Nicholas, driven by a shared belief that Caribbean athletes deserve the same world-class sports science infrastructure available to programmes in Europe and North America. The AI research he began in 2014 — a reinforcement learning coaching system — became the engine behind SportsBrain's AI Agent Coach.

He is the founder of the Caribbean's first AI company, which provides the broader AI and technology ecosystem that SportsBrain draws on. His work spans reinforcement learning, computer vision, predictive modelling, and AI agent design — all directly applied to Caribbean sport.

Adrian was named Caribbean AI Founder of the Year 2023, Innovator of the Year Jamaica 2023, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2024. He is an IBM Global AI Mentor, a Forbes Technology Council member, and a member of Jamaica's National AI Task Force.

Accolades

EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 Caribbean AI Founder of the Year 2023 Innovator of the Year Jamaica 2023 IBM Global AI Mentor Forbes Tech Council National AI Task Force Jamaica
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15+

Years in Artificial Intelligence

Over fifteen years developing AI systems across fraud prevention, financial inclusion, climate resilience, education, public safety, and sport.

2014

AI Agent Coach Research Begins

Adrian began developing the reinforcement learning coaching system that became SportsBrain's AI Agent Coach — more than a decade before "AI coaching" entered mainstream sports technology.

2023

Caribbean AI Founder of the Year

Named Caribbean AI Founder of the Year by CEO Monthly (UK) and Innovator of the Year in Jamaica, recognising his leadership in regional AI development.

2024

EY Entrepreneur of the Year

Awarded EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 in recognition of his business leadership, social impact, and contribution to Jamaica's technology ecosystem.

IBM

IBM Global AI Mentor

Selected by IBM as a Global AI Mentor, advising developers and businesses worldwide on responsible AI implementation and strategy.

1st

Caribbean's First AI Company

Founder of the Caribbean's first AI company, delivering intelligent systems across multiple sectors and establishing the technology ecosystem SportsBrain operates within.