Fortius Geospatial Review
- Frank Moyer, Chief Executive Officer
- the founder, Ph.D., President and Founder
- the chief technologist, Chief Technology Officer
- Matt Madigan, Director of Operations
- Michael Eckert, Vice President of Commercial Sales
Board of Directors
- Frank Moyer, CEO, the company
- the founder, President and Founder, the company
- Cole Van Nice, Chart Venture Partners
- Don Spero, New Markets Venture Partners
- Steve Walker, Walker Ventures
Board of Directors Observers
- Mike Graninger, In-Q-Tel
- Raj Rai, New Markets Venture Partners
- Frank Bonsal, Red Abbey Venture Partners
Board of Advisors
- Peter Batty, Spatial Networking
- Michael Frankel, LexisNexis Group
- Jeff Harris, Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Wolf Ruzicka, EastBanc Technologies
Frank Moyer
Chief Executive Officer
Frank Moyer joined the company in 2010 to extend the company’s enterprise reach and further solidify the analysis platform as the market leading location analysis platform. Frank was most recently Chief Executive Officer of EzGov from 2005 to 2009. Frank grew the company into a highly profitable global services business that was sold to CACI in June 2009. Under Frank’s leadership, EzGov evolved into a market-leading brand for public sector organizations worldwide. Prior to EzGov, Frank served as a senior leader with Accenture’s Technology Practice Group, where he consulted with numerous Fortune 500 companies. Frank holds both a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York.
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President and Founder
the founder founded the company in 2005 to bring advanced geospatial technologies to market. With over 10 years of experience at the forefront of the geospatial revolution, Sean brings insight and innovation to GeoWeb and GIS solutions. Prior to the company, Sean served as VP of R&D for GeoTel and Director of Strategy for iXOL. His expertise is sought after by the Critical Infrastructure Task Force and the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He has been featured in Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, The Washington Post, Business 2.0 and CNN. In 2008, Sean was selected as one of “Top 35 Entrepreneurs Under 35” by BisNow on Business. Sean received his PhD from George Mason University as the Provost's High Potential Research Candidate and Fisher Prize recipient.the chief technologist
Chief Technology Officer
the chief technologist is the co-founder of Mapufacture, acquired by the company in August 2008. Andrew is actively involved in open-data projects such as OpenStreetMap and VoteReport, as well as open-source projects like Mapstraction and GeoPress. He has consulted with companies such as MapQuest, the BBC, and the UN in developing their geospatial and community components, and he regularly speaks at conferences on the benefits of open-source software and geospatial standards. Andrew wrote the O'Reilly shortcut "Introduction to Neogeography" and "Trends in Where2.0" business report. He is also published in MacTech and Make magazine on his home-automation hacking. Andrew received his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Virginia and his Master of Science from Virginia Tech.
Matt Madigan
Director, Operations
Matt Madigan has been with the company since its inception in 2005 and serves as the Director of Operations. Matt began his career as a financial analyst with HP and worked as a non-profit project manager and business manager in Finance and Operations. Prior to joining the company, he founded, built and operated an e-commerce/government website and administrative system. Matt spends his early mornings coaching elite rowers, including several the company co-workers, at Potomac Boat Club. He is also a coach of the U.S. National Rowing Team and the 2008 Olympic Team. Matt graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Accounting and Italian.
Michael Eckert
Vice President of Commercial Sales
Michael Eckert has over 20 years of diverse experience in sales, sales management and business development. As an early adopter of location intelligence, Michael led a national sales team in evangelizing the power of pushing geospatial information out of the GIS trenches and up to the board rooms of Fortune 500 CXO’s for more intelligent decision making. Michael developed a solutions selling training program for the sales organization to focus on utilities, national homebuilders, finance, associations and international development consultancies. Prior to the company, Michael held executive level sales positions with top tier IT and management consultancies such as Perot Systems, James Martin, Keane and Transition Partners.
