Open Geospatial Consortium has announced Peter Rabley as its new CEO.
Peter has worked in the property rights space for over 25 years as an entrepreneur, business leader, and technologist. He is a successful entrepreneur who has built multiple enterprise software companies leading to multiple exits. He is also the co-founder and managing partner of PLACE a new non-profit US and UK data institute that leverages technology and fund raising to create a self-financing geospatial data trust. Former investment partner at Omidyar Network leading the global property rights initiative.
Peter brings to OGC a wealth of experience from the private, governmental, and not-for-profit sectors, including in venture financing, and in developing and implementing scale-up strategies for international not-for-profits.
“I am excited and honored to be appointed as OGC’s CEO,” said Peter Rabley. “OGC is well positioned to build on the incredible 30 year legacy by responding to the ever-increasing rate of change seen in technology and society alike. Opportunities and challenges have never been more apparent and I see tremendous potential for growth in new markets around the globe. This is the time of geospatial.”
“I am particularly excited to have Peter leading OGC,” commented Prashant Shukle, Chair of the OGC Board of Directors. “Peter has a proven track record in the public, private, and not-for-profit areas of the geospatial industry, and closely aligns with what our key stakeholders and partners were telling us they wanted in a CEO. The OGC Board took the time to get this selection right, and we are very excited about how Peter fits with our plans for a reinvigorated and repositioned OGC.”
Peter’s appointment to CEO is timely, with it coming during OGC’s 30th anniversary year—a time when OGC is taking stock of its successes while modernizing to respond to a global economy that increasingly uses geospatial technologies across so many domains and applications.
Peter added, “Time for Geospatial and location data is more ripe than it is now. Location is embedded in everything we do in our daily lives, from the phone we carry to the searches we do.”
OGC is the home of geospatial innovation, collaboration, and standards. It is an international membership organization that supports a diverse community of 500+ businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities, all working together to make location information FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
