About

Paul Smith

 

Co-Founder and CEO

 

Paul Smith is a geospatial industry veteran with over 25 years experience in geo content, GIS, navigation, and location-based applications.  He was Chief Commercial Officer at C3 Technologies who’s pioneering 3D photo-realistic maps broke new ground in online mapping and Chief Strategy Officer at earthmine inc. an innovator in 3D street-level panoramic imagery. He was a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at GlobeXplorer, a web services start-up acquired by DigitalGlobe Inc. in 2007. GlobeXplorer became an early leader in earth imagery publication now common in Internet-based maps. At Aerotopia, his consultancy has extensive dealings with local search portals, navigation and location application companies, and geo content companies.

Stuart Fish

 

Co-Founder and COO

 

Stuart Fish has over 20 years experience in geospatial, web and mobile-targeted consumer services. Stuart spent 10 years in
Finland where he joined, and later headed as CEO, a start-up specializing in providing global location-enabled mobile services.
Under Stuart's leadership, the company went on to provide best-of-breed location-enabled services to the top local search
companies in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, becoming the largest ASP geo-service provider by reach and volume in the region. Since moving to Germany in 2005, Stuart has provided consultancy and expertise to the top Local Search/Directory companies in eight EU countries, with a focus on the development of rich local media services, local search and partnership/monetization strategies. Stuart is now tracking innovation in local social media.