Thanks to Flora Feldman for capturing this moment

Biography

Trained as an economist, I spent the first 20 years of my working life in building materials before stumbling upon GIS. A chance conversation led to me becoming General Manager of GDC and Head of Professional Services at whereonearth.com during the wackiest part of the dot com boom and bust.

In 2002 some colleagues and I bought out GDC with investment support from nearly all of the employees. 4 years later GDC had grown to be one of the leading suppliers of e-Government solutions and corporate GI to Local Government with a strong reputation for innovation and customer service. MapInfo bought the business in 2007.

After working for MapInfo for 18 months as UK MD and Director of Product and Industry Strategy, EMEA I branched out to look for the next big thing. I have recently joined Geo.me Solutions as their chairman and I am relishing being “back in the geo game”

Through my consultancy KnowWhere, I now work as a non-executive director, a strategic consultant and an investor, advisor and mentor to technology startups.

I founded and chaired the first three AGI GeoCommunity conferences and am a member of the Council of the Association.

I am also a Special Lecturer at the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham.

When not working, I blog, twitter, talk about geography, technology and politics and follow the Arsenal.

You can follow me on Twitter at @StevenFeldman or at www.knowwhereconsulting.co.uk

You can have a look at my background and some recommendations on LinkedIn

There are some more pictures of me here, this one is my favourite it makes me look thoughtful and possibly even KnowingWhere I am going