Hutton brings more than 25 years of business development and operations experience to the team. Most recently, Hutton was with VideoLink where he was responsible for sales and marketing. Prior to that, Hutton was with Lycos where he managed all business development activities for Lycos.com, Quote.com, Lycos Entertainment and Wired News. Hutton also served as the Director of Multimedia & Mobile Services and managed the team charged with developing, deploying and maintaining broadband/multimedia and mobile-web services across all of Lycos’ U.S. based web sites. Hutton also held management positions at Eprise Corporation, a software company providing web content management solutions as well as Infocellular, a software company providing sales automation solutions to wireless telecom companies.

“Rick’s extensive experience in the content services industry will be a great asset to our team," said Ron Matros, president and CEO at MetaCarta. "With his guidance, MetaCarta will strengthen its position as the leading and complete solution for the management and delivery of geographic content and applications."

About MetaCarta, Inc.

MetaCarta, Inc., a leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions, provides users with map-driven geographic search, geographic referencing, and data visualization capabilities. MetaCarta products make data and unstructured content “location-aware” making that information geographically relevant. These innovative solutions make it possible for customers to discover, visualize, and act on important location-based information. Founded by a team of MIT researchers in 1999, MetaCarta is privately held, with US headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in Vienna, Virginia and Houston, Texas. For more information, please visit www.metacarta.com.