A little bit about me

Thanks to Flora Feldman for capturing the moment

The Past

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.

What I am up to now

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

  • Chairman of geo.me, a Google Maps Partner
  • A strategic advisor to the board of Astun Technology, the UK’s leading Open Source geobusiness
  • A non executive director of OpenAddresses UK
  • A member of the Advisory Board of OpenCage Data
  • A Charter member of OSGeo and  the chair of the organising committee for FOSS4G 2013, treasurer of the OSGeo:UK chapter and deputy chair of FOSS4G UK

Recently

  • Chairman of Exprodat Consulting which provides geo-services to the oil and gas industry until it was acquired by Getech plc in June 2016
  • Non-exec director at Streamserve Inc acquired by Open Text in 2010
  • A Special Lecturer at the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham until the end of 2014. I helped to start the OSM-GB project there.
  • I was a founder and initial Champion of the Geovation program for Ordnance Survey

Interests and links

When not working, I blog, twitter, talk about geography, technology, things open 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

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If you want to contact me

Comments or questions are welcome.

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