About the Author:  Sean Gorman founded FortiusOne in 2005 to bring location based analytics to the mass market. Sean brings over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution as a researcher, practitioner, and entrepreneur at FortiusOne. Through both academic and entreprenurial efforts he has been working to make geographic data more accessible to the public since 1997 culminating in the creation of GeoCommons – a crowd-sourced repository of statistical data and social feeds that can be easily mapped, remixed and reused by non-technical users. Sean has been featured in media such as, Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0, MSNBC, CBS and CNN. He also holds a PhD. From George Mason University in Public Policy where he was the Provost’s High Potential Scholar and was the recipient of the Fischer Prize. He has published dozens of articles on geographic data sharing and analysis, and authored the book Networks, Complexity and Security: The Role of Public Policy in Critical Infrastructure Protection. Read more from this author

We are excited to announce that Jeff Harris and Peter Batty have joined the FortiusOne advisory board. The team is very fortunate to have such talented folks helping guide the company. We’ve taken on the often tough challenge of working in both the commercial and government space. Government funding continues to push innovation in the geospatial industry and the opportunities in the commercial space are just beginning to be realized. Jeff Harris’s illustrious background developing geospatial innovations for the US government is a huge asset. What more can I add to a guy that has won the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the CIA Distinguished Service Medal, the NRO Medal for Distinguished Service, the US GeoSpatial Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, Aviation Week Laureate Citation and the James V. Hartinger Award for military space achievement. Sitting in a meeting with him is an experience in and of itself. The number of ideas and depth on knowledge it flat out impressive. Not to mention he is still thinking years ahead of where the industry is today.

This is one of several traits he shares with Peter Batty. Peter has an amazing ability to not only see where the industry is going, but also a deep understanding of where it has been. He has been one of the most prominent links between traditional GIS and the mainstreaming of geospatial into the broader Web. Even more impressive is that Peter not only thinks it, he has been out there executing against his vision. From IBM to SmallWorlds to Ubisense to Intergraph he has not only had big thoughts but turned them into reality. I consider it a great complement to the company and the vision that he and Jeff have agreed to join up. Combined with Wolf Ruzicka of Eastbanc and Michael Frankel of LexisNexis we have a great set of minds to help us grow the next generation of location intelligence.

Popularity: 10% [?]