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Geoff Michener Built a Business From the Places the Internet Forgot
He went looking for a cleaner database and found an untidy world. Dataplor's founder turned that mess into a global location-intelligence company by pairing machines with people who still bother to check.
Dave Drazen Put the Internet on the Map
For 25 years, the GeoTel founder has turned buried fiber, rooftop towers and lit buildings into something decision-makers can actually see - and use.
Suzanne Serwatuk Knows the Most Technical Product Still Needs a Human Story
From a provocative ice-cream shop to the C-suite of a geospatial software company, Serwatuk has built a career around the same practical question: how do you make people care?
Maggie McCullough
Maggie McCullough is the CEO and founder of PolicyMap, the Philadelphia-based mapping and data-visualization platform she launched in 2008. A former White House budget-office staffer turned housing researcher, she built PolicyMap after struggling to fit maps and data into her own policy work, betting that anyone should be able to make a map as easily as they shop online. The platform now serves universities, banks, health systems, nonprofits and governments, layering thousands of public and proprietary datasets into one searchable map. In December 2023 the company closed a $3 million Series A led by its former parent, the Reinvestment Fund.
Gary Little
Gary Little is President and CEO of Foursquare, the world's leading independent location technology platform. A rare operator-investor hybrid, he spent six years running internet monetization at Yahoo, then pivoted into investment banking at Credit Suisse, Lazard, and UBS before co-founding Buckthorn Partners and rising to Managing Director at The Raine Group. At Raine he led the $150M Foursquare investment and negotiated the company's transformative acquisitions of Placed and Factual - then stepped into the CEO seat himself in January 2021. Under his leadership, Foursquare has evolved from a nostalgic social check-in app into the dominant infrastructure layer for location intelligence, covering 190 countries, indexing over 200 million points of interest, and powering the geospatial stacks of enterprises across retail, advertising, real estate, and urban planning.