Earthmine Names Paul smith as Chief Strategy Officer

Berkeley, CA – May 12, 2008 –  earthmine, Inc. today announced Paul Smith, an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in GIS, remote sensing, and location-based data products, has joined their executive management team as Chief Strategy Officer.  The former DigitalGlobe and GlobeXplorer executive will drive earthmine’s strategic partnership initiatives including technology partnerships and global business alliances, and will be a key member of the executive team guiding the company direction.  He will report to Founder and co-CEO John Ristevski. 

            “Paul brings a wealth of industry-specific experience and insight to the earthmine team. His work at Globe Xplorer and Digital Globe in delivering rich geospatial content and software as a service is invaluable as we move forward to bring a whole new dataset and associated set of tools to the marketplace,” said Ristevski. 

            Prior to joining earthmine, Paul Smith was a vice president at DigitalGlobe where he drove business growth through the development of key global partnerships and alliances.  He joined DigitalGlobe through the acquisition of the company he co-founded, GlobeXplorer.  Under his direction as chief operating officer, GlobeXplorer became an early leader in global earth imagery content aggregation now common on the Internet.  Prior to GlobeXplorer, Paul was a vice president at HJW Geo-spatial which delivered the first aerial off-the-shelf products to the industry, substantially contributing to the development of the geospatial data industry.  Paul is considered an innovator in spatial content licensing and pricing models, is a frequent speaker on location based web services, and has extensive experience working with search portals, leading navigation companies, geographic content providers, international governments, as well as GIS software suppliers.

            “The earthmine team and technology has re-ignited my entrepreneurial spirit,” said Smith.  “I’m looking forward to applying my capabilities and experience in this space to the big opportunities in front of us.   I see earthmine’s unique content and platform as a game-changer poised to drive the next generation of location applications.

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 Smith will join the earthmine team of thirteen in their Berkeley, California offices and will be a part of the executive management team that includes co-founders John Ristevski and Anthony Fassero, and Kris Kelsay, chief marketing officer, who has been with the team since 2006. 

 About earthmine

earthmine inc. is a street level, 3D mapping company that provides software and data as a service to those who gather, analyze and communicate location-based information from a street-level perspective.  The company is focused on indexing reality, creating a robust geospatial data mine of our urban environments that is accessed from the human perspective. earthmine solutions enable better informed and more effective geospatial decision making by  delivering a highly accurate and realistic user experience that can be easily viewed, annotated, analyzed, measured and shared.  The company, headquartered in Berkeley, California, was founded in 2006 and is privately-held. 

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