# Doug Gerull

> Doug Gerull is a geospatial technology executive and co-founder and early CEO of WorldView Imaging, the business that became EarthWatch and DigitalGlobe. His career includes leadership in Intergraph’s Mapping Sciences division, president and COO responsibilities at EarthWatch, a director and COO role at Surrey Satellite US, and a documented CTO and strategic-partnerships role at AllSource Analysis.

- **Role:** Geospatial technology executive and entrepreneur
- **Organizations:** Carl Zeiss, Intergraph Corporation, WorldView Imaging Corporation, EarthWatch Incorporated, DigitalGlobe, Surrey Satellite Technology US, AllSource Analysis
- **Known for:** Co-founded WorldView Imaging, the business that became DigitalGlobe., Co-inventor on granted US patent 5,426,780 for GIS dynamic segmentation., Served as president and COO of EarthWatch during the early commercial satellite-imaging era.

## Career timeline

- **Before WorldView Imaging** — Managed Carl Zeiss’s North American Photogrammetry Group and later served as executive vice president of Intergraph’s Mapping Sciences business; the company-supplied biography does not date these roles.
- **1992** — Joined Walter Scott as co-founder and early CEO of WorldView Imaging, the predecessor of DigitalGlobe.
- **1992-02-28** — Intergraph filed the dynamic-segmentation GIS patent naming Douglas B. Gerull and David M. Glenn as inventors.
- **1995** — Documented as president and COO of EarthWatch following the combination of WorldView and Ball’s commercial remote-sensing activities.
- **1995-06-20** — US patent 5,426,780 was granted to Intergraph.
- **1997** — Listed as author of a Photogrammetric Week paper about the EarlyBird satellite’s development and operation.
- **2014** — Discussed Surrey Satellite US’s Orbital Test Bed and small-satellite economics as COO.
- **2015** — Documented as Surrey Satellite US COO, with business-development executives Stephen Eisele and Rick Sanford reporting to him.
- **2019-04** — Published Staying Ahead of Change as AllSource Analysis CTO.
- **2022-08** — A company-supplied biography reproduced by Equilar identified him as AllSource Analysis CTO and SVP Strategic Partnerships.

## Achievements

- Co-founded WorldView Imaging, the business that became DigitalGlobe.
- Co-inventor on granted US patent 5,426,780 for GIS dynamic segmentation.
- Served as president and COO of EarthWatch during the early commercial satellite-imaging era.
- Served as director and COO of Surrey Satellite US.

## Latest updates

- **2022-08** — AllSource Analysis supplied a biography identifying Gerull as CTO and SVP Strategic Partnerships; this is dated evidence, not confirmation of a 2026 appointment.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douggerull/

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Last updated: 2026-10-22