Meet the team

Gareth leads the Geovation team, and has a wealth of experience in connecting start-ups and corporate innovators to solve challenges. He is driven by the desire to make things better – whether its cities, products or simply life – and sees immense value in innovators and corporates joining forces to solve genuine challenges – whether they are big or small.

Lewis leads the Technical team at Geovation, he has a wealth of experience in building complex scalable geospatial solutions to solve business needs. He loves a good map and anything related to data. Lewis has a background in maritime navigational systems.

Wayne is the Insights Manager in the Commercial team at Geovation. He is responsible for developing and running Geovation’s Innovation as a Service including Innovation Challenges, Hackthons, Geo Sprints and Ideathons. He has a keen interest in the environment and the impacts of climate change and pollution, a passion for mapping and has achieved a BSC and MSC in Geographical Information Systems. He is currently studying for his MBA.

Emma oversees all the marketing needs for Geovation. She has a background in Communications and Graphic Design and is responsible for delivering all marketing and communications across Geovation’s channels to grow awareness of our business and entrepreneurial community, and drive membership and programme applications.

Dave has 20 years industry experience in mobile, database, desktop, and web software. From Microsoft technologies to more recently modern JavaScript web frameworks, and geospatial software. He has a background in community open data and is passionate about working in the open to make things better.

Murray has a particular interest in spatial statistics and intuitive data representation. With a Master of Research in Spatial Data Science and Visualisation, he has acquired a range of experience and technical capability from his two years at OS, covering consultancy and business intelligence.