Sean is the former CEO of Timbr.io - a platform for enabling algorithm reusability and more accessible data science. Timbr.io was acquired by DigitalGlobe in October 2016. Prior to Timbr.io Sean was the founder of GeoIQ - a collaborative data and mapping company. GeoIQ was subsequently acquired by ESRI where Sean worked integrating social data and streaming analytics with ESRI’s mapping technologies. Sean has also previously been employed in academia serving as a research professor at George Mason University. He received his PhD from George Mason University as the Provost’s High Potential Research Candidate, Fisher Prize winner and an INFORMS Dissertation Prize recipient.