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OGC appoints three new members to its Board of DirectorsMay 4th, 2021 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
The new appointees’ diverse sets of experiences will inform the strategy of the Consortium and help instill innovation. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the election of Patty Mims, Javier de la Torre, and Prashant Shukle to its Board of Directors.
The new appointments bring experience in defense & intelligence, homeland security, cloud-native GIS, data science, environmental data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Earth Observation, and more.
“Technology-enabled global location services offer the opportunity for us to enable solutions to improve the effectiveness and security of our global village,” commented OGC Chair, Jeffrey Harris. “The addition to our Board of these talented and respected geospatial community leaders will add great value. Their diverse sets of experiences will inform the strategy of the Consortium to help instil innovation across people and devices to speed delivery, discovery, and decision-making.” Patty Mims is the Director of Global National Government at Esri. In this role, Patty oversees all Esri’s work across the U.S. Federal Government, including Intelligence, Defense, Public Safety, & Federal Civilian; Non-Profit Programs globally; as well as International support to National Government organizations around the world. Patty also currently serves on the Board of Directors for US Geospatial-Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) as well as the Chairperson for the Board of Advisors for the College of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech. Patty has spent her twenty-five year career in the GIS industry supporting the missions of defense, intel, homeland security, federal, and international customers. Patty is based in Virginia, USA. Javier de la Torre is Founder and Chief Product Officer of CARTO, based in Madrid, Spain. After starting his career in Biodiversity and Environmental data analysis, Javier decided to build CARTO to enable geospatial interoperability in the cloud. He leads R&D, accelerating open source and a cloud-native approach in the GIS industry. Javier is passionate about conservation and climate change and is a board member of the Tierra Pura foundation, as well as having founded Vizzuality, a data science company working on some of the world’s most pressing environmental use cases. Prashant Shukle is currently the Chief Operating Officer of KorrAI, an advanced geospatial artificial intelligence company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He also serves as a strategic advisor to Space Strategies Consulting Ltd., an Ottawa-based think tank specialising in earth observation and space strategies, and the World Geospatial Industry Council, advising on public-private partnerships while acting as the editor of the WGIC’s Policy Watch publication. Prashant also sits on the Board of Directors of PLACE, a non-profit data trust specialising in hyperlocal mapping data in the public interest. A passionate advocate for the earth observation and geospatial industry, he previously served as the Director-General of the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation where, among his many roles, he managed Canada’s only geospatial data standards program, GeoConnections. In 2018, Prashant was awarded the OGC Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the global geospatial standards community. The three new members of the OGC Board of Directors join existing board members:
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