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About Gaia GPS

Gaia GPS is developed by TrailBehind, Inc. We hope to make Gaia GPS the best GPS iPhone app.

Gaia GPS would not be possible without maps, data, and software provided by partners and open source projects. These contributors are listed here.

Also, check out our outdoors search engine and map - TrailBehind.com - and find great places to hike.

Company Bios

Developers

• Anna Hentzel - Founder
  Anna Hentzel is a veteran web developer who spent the last four years working at Google on a range of interesting technologies, including Orkut.com - a popular social network - and Google Desktop. She previously worked at Silicon Age as a Java Consultant.

  Anna earned degrees in computer engineering and mathematics at Iowa State University ('03), graduating with honors. During college, she interned at Microsoft and IBM. Anna also holds a second degree black belt in Taekwondo.

• Andrew Johnson - Founder
  Andrew Johnson has written code, authored prose, and played strategy games professionally since the age of 14. Most recently Andrew was the director of marketing at SureLogic, where he worked on all aspects of marketing strategy and execution, bringing software development tools to market. Prior to that, Andrew worked as a writer and strategist, focused on tech clients, at Elias/Savion Advertising.

  Andrew earned a B.S. in business from Carnegie Mellon University ('03). During college, he served as news editor and then editor-in-chief of CMU's student newspaper and worked as a student programmer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for three years.

Board of Directors

• Steve Schmitt - Chairman
  For the last decade, Steve has held executive management roles in numerous information technology companies. He was CEO of SureLogic, CEO of SimMedical, Director of Business Development - Perot Systems Government Services, Senior VP and CIO of Crown Castle International, VP of Information Technology of FORE Systems, and CIO of the City of Pittsburgh. Steve serves on numerous advisory boards and is currently Managing Partner of the Penn-Florida Group LLC. He was Chairman of the Blue Hammock Corporation, until it was purchased in 2008.
  
  Steve started his career as a software engineer working in the defense and financial services industries, and his career reflects a lifelong interest in the practical application of technology. Steve received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Robert Morris University and a Master's degree in Public Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
• Charles Johnson - Director
  Charles is a multi-disciplinary executive, with experience spanning accounting/finance, IT, and manufacturing at multimillion dollar companies. He has also been actively engaged in designing, writing and implementing business software applications since 1981.

  He currently owns and operates VerveX3, LLC - a company that develops web-based business solutions, and moonlights as a semi-professional photographer. His work is featured in online magazines and numerous photography sites and is on display in galleries and appear in traveling exhibits.

  Prior to VerveX3, Charles worked for a decade at Texas Systems and Controls where he was hired as the Controller. He rose to COO/CFO, and was intimately involved in all operations.In the early 90s, Charles founded Island Consulting, providing support and software development to resellers and end users of Great Plains accounting software. Charles began his professional career as Manager of Purchasing, Plant and Equipment for Central Pipe & Supply, where he rose to Controller/Treasurer before the company was sold in 1991. A pioneer of corporate IT, Charles wrote PICK-based software and brought in Apple computers to computerize this $50M/year company's operations. Charles earned a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Denver.

• Russell Rice - Director
  Mr. Rice has a unique depth and range of experience spanning multiple industries. With over twenty-five years of operational, financial, and sales experience, he is skilled at bringing new products and services to market — dozens of new products and services for more than 20 different companies. Most recently, Mr. Rice co-founded Velocity Broadcasting, the first of its kind private television network. In his role as the company’s President, he directly managed the deployment of more than one hundred satellite downlink locations across the United States, while leading the sales effort that pioneered the private broadcast concept.

  Previously, Mr. Rice was recruited to lead AgriCap - an initiative to provide vendor financing on a $12 billion trading platform utilized in the perishable food industry. He authored the business plan, raised $5 million in private investment, and managed the company day-to-day. Prior to his work at AgriCap, Mr. Rice served as Director of Sales Operations for Foveon, a company that mined Internet transaction data from network access points. While there, he rapidly recruited, trained and deployed a nationwide sales team that exceeded the company’s first year objectives in nine months.

  At the age of twenty-four, Mr. Rice founded Kisco, a contract furniture sales and marketing company, and for the next fifteen years he managed all aspects of the business. Under his leadership, the business grew to $20 million in annual sales.

  Russell is conversant in Spanish and holds a Bachelor of Economics Degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Technical Advisors

• Kevin Lacker (Founder, Parse)
  Kevin is a computer science and mathematics expert, and he has been a developer on the search quality team at Google since 2005. Kevin works on improving the information retrieval algorithms for Google search results.

  Kevin earned a M.S. in computational biology from Berkeley and a B.S. in computer science and mathematics from Duke University. He has a patent on a technique for analyzing web sites and has published other work in the Journal of Machine Learning Research. In college Kevin was the recipient of two Putnam Fellow honors, a prestigious award in mathematics.

• Daniel Silberman (Founder, Gamador)
  Dan's programming experience ranges from building a profitable e-commerce websites from scratch, to creating sophisticated algorithms to predict the stock market. Dan currently works at PredictWallSteet.com, where he designed a system to predict stocks based on aggregating user predictions.

  He implemented and tested a range of advanced statistical models. He also created the PredictWallStreet Facebook application, and outside of programming, worked with the founders on marketing strategy. Dan previously did independent consulting work, notably a website for Jurassic Palms to advertise and sell palm trees.

  The company went from zero web presence, to generating 75% of their revenue through the web, based on Dan's website and Google AdSense strategy. Dan studied computer science and mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Santa Cruz.