Peter Batty and Jeff Harris Join the F1 Advisory Board

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.