Dr. Sean Gorman
Sean is a co-founder of Zephr.xyz Inc. a positioning and navigation AI company. He has a background in computational simulation and modeling for geospatial phenomena. Previously he was an Engineering Manager at Snap working on mapping and visual positioning systems (VPS). Before Snap he was the CEO of Pixel8earth, a crowdsourced VPS system for AR, which was acquired by Snap. Prior to Pixel8earth he was the Head of Technical Product Management at Maxar helping build GBDX and next generation machine learning tools for satellite imagery. Subsequently he was a founder of Timbr.io - a platform for enabling algorithm reusability and more accessible data science - acquired by Maxar in 2016. Before starting Timbr.io he was a founder of GeoIQ - a collaborative data and analytics company. GeoIQ was acquired by ESRI where Sean worked as a director of strategy. Sean has also previously worked in academia, serving as a research professor at George Mason University. Sean received his PhD from George Mason University as the Provost's High Potential Research Candidate, Fisher Prize winner and an INFORMS Dissertation Prize recipient. Sean has been awarded eight patents in the PNT and mapping field.