At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based COO’ operating in the Geospatial space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Dan Roarty
President and COO of Arrive
Dan Roarty is the president and COO of ParkWhiz.
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About Arrive: Arrive is a provider of parking and other connected mobility services through apps, websites, voice platforms.
Darlene Mann
Chief Operating Officer of StreetLight Data
Since 2008, she has provided executive advisory services to companies in the internet services and enterprise software segments. Darlene was CEO of Siperian from 1996 to 2002. Prior to this she led the internet and software services practice at ONSET Ventures, also serving as a director for more than a dozen portfolio companies. Before ONSET, Darlene served in a variety of operating roles including Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Avantos Performance Systems, and Founding Vice President of Marketing at BroadVision, and held a number of senior product management positions with Verity, Paramount Communications and Lotus Development Corporation.
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About Akoonu, StreetLight Data: StreetLight Data is a data analytics company transforming urban planning and transportation design with the power of geospatial data.
Sam Acheson
Chief Operating Officer of SolSpec
Sam Acheson is the Chief Operating Officer at Teren.
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About SolSpec: Teren is the data analytics software platform for energy and civil engineering. We transform data into actionable reports.
Sam Acheson
Chief Operating Officer of SolSpec
Sam Acheson is the Chief Operating Officer at Teren.
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About SolSpec: Teren is the data analytics software platform for energy and civil engineering. We transform data into actionable reports.
Matt Curless
COO of C6 Aerial
Matt Curless is the COO at C6 Aerial.
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About C6 Aerial: C6 Aerial provide an array of data derivatives for architects, contractors, engineers and facility owners.
Craig Anderson
Chief Operating Officer / CIO of Genesis
Mr. Anderson has over 24 years experience in Information Technology and management. His GIS experience is a product of both his intense background in data management, analysis, and programming as well more than 20 years of direct GIS support and consulting for internal and external clients. His responsibilities have included complete GIS systems design, GIS-based web mapping solutions, and managing numerous GIS projects, both large and small. Leveraging his IT experience has allowed Mr. Anderson to perform wide-ranging spatial analysis using large data sets utilizing his database programming skills. The corporate structure in place at Genesis allows for Mr. Anderson to fulfill his responsibilities as Chief Operating Officer and CIO while continuing to serve as a Project Manager and Sr Spatial Analyst.
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About : Genesis provides civil engineering, landscape architecture, planning, GIS, CEI, and urban design services.
Krassimir Piperkov
COO of Enview
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About Enview: Enview is a 3D geospatial analytics company providing automated data analytics to the energy industry and government agencies.
Terry Torres
COO of StadiNav
Founder of StadiNav
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About StadiNav: Next-Generation Venue Management.
Richard E. Shuman
EVP and COO of RoadDB LLC
Rich Shuman has been second in command at RoadDB since 2014. Mr. Shuman is an accomplished automotive operations and sales executive who has played an integral role in building four companies including the companies that became Convergys and HERE. Before rejoining Ygomi in 2012, Mr. Shuman served as Senior Vice President of Asia-Pacific Sales at Navteq. During his tenure at Navteq, he also led business development efforts in Europe and the U.S. for all business market segments. He was instrumental in global strategy development for key automotive accounts. Mr. Shuman’s responsibilities at Navteq included all aspect of the sales cycle from lead development through contract negotiation. He was personally responsible for establishing the majority of automotive customer relationships worldwide starting from when Navteq’s products were first being conceived and its markets first created. Automotive revenue grew to $900+ million largely because of these relationships. Prior to Navteq, Mr. Shuman served as Vice President of Operations at Cellular Business Systems, Inc. (CBSI, later Convergys, with the billing operation subsequently sold to NEC) and as Regional Manager for SEI Information Technology. Mr. Shuman served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Consumer Electronics Association, Mobile Electronics Division. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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About RoadDB LLC: RoadDB provides an end-to-end solution for road data and localization for highly automated driving and ADAS in series production vehicles.
Robert Butler
Chief Operating Officer of Surveying And Mapping (SAM)
Robert Butler is the Chief Operating Officer at Surveying And Mapping (SAM).
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About SAM, Surveying And Mapping (SAM): Founded in 1994, SAM, Inc. is a leading provider of complete geospatial data solutions using advanced surveying and mapping technologies.