Expertise that changes the trajectory of geospatial innovation
Meet our industry fellows
Taylor Geospatial Engine works to advance geospatial innovation from early-stage research toward viability in commercial markets.
We strive to identify broad industry issues that, if solved, allow both industry and academia to focus on next-order challenges with commercialization potential. Our intention is to focus on several industry gaps over time.
Our Industry Fellows bring expertise gained through their distinguished careers in the geospatial industry. Their insights help us generate energy within early-stage R&D and academia around technology areas with the most potential to change the trajectory of the use of geospatial data, technology, and insights.
Chris Holmes
Chris Holmes is a geospatial technologist and architect whose efforts at the intersection of business and engineering help bring the community to more innovative, open, and interoperable solutions. At Planet, he is a VP of Product, Strategy & Partnerships and a “Planet Fellow” working on various open initiatives, including the Cloud Native Geospatial community and suite of standards. Chris founded the STAC community & standard, lead product management of Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF’s, and co-founded GeoParquet. He is a Technical Fellow at Radiant Earth and serves on the board of Baseform.
Chris previously served on the boards of the Open Geospatial Consortium, the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association, the Eclipse Foundation, Brave New Software, and the Open Source Geospatial Consortium (OSGeo).
Jed Sundwall
Jed Sundwall is the Executive Director of Radiant Earth. He has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of data, product development, cloud computing, economics, and policy. Before joining Radiant Earth, he created various data sharing and sustainability initiatives at Amazon, including the Amazon Web Services Open Data Program. He helped create new patterns of sharing data in the cloud that have been adopted by NASA, USGS, Google, Microsoft, and Geosciences Australia.
Jed serves on the Board of Directors of NatureServe, is an advisor to PLACE Fund, and has served on the Landsat Advisory Group. He has a master’s degree in foreign policy from the University of California in San Diego where he studied the adoption of open-source software by the Brazilian federal government.