Richard Weiss
Co-Founder, Head Of Sales And Marketing at geoimpact AG
Burgdorf, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRichard Weiss is a seasoned geospatial entrepreneur and senior executive with 9 years of formal experience and a career spanning three decades in GIS, product and commercial leadership. As Co-Founder and Head of Sales & Marketing at geoimpact AG he blends geointelligence and machine learning to deliver building-level energy data that supports clean-energy transitions and smart-city planning across Switzerland. He has founded and led multiple companies (including 3-GIS Europe and Rio Grande Enterprises) and has led global commercial strategy at scale across the UK, US, EMEA and APAC. Richard is equally at home shaping product roadmaps and closing international channel deals, with deep domain expertise in utilities, telecoms and fibre-optic network planning. Based in Burgdorf, Bern, he pairs pragmatic startup hustle with enterprise sales rigor, having repeatedly turned geospatial technology into recurring SaaS revenue. A not-obvious strength is his longevity across roles from hands-on mapping technician to C-suite founder, giving him rare end-to-end perspective on geodata commercialization.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (with Honours) Geography, BSc (with Honours) Geography at Penn State University
English, German, Spanish, French
Github Skills (16)
arcgis9
geoserver7
wfs7
geospatial6
wps6
database5
arcobjects5
geotools5
database-management5
esri4
wms4
wcs4
addin4
geospatial-analysis2
data-management2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geocom-gis/GeocomDatabaseManagementTools
May 2018 - Nov 2021
Geocom Database Management Tools help to create enterprise geodatabase, set database permissions, version data and manage other database tasks. These are standard tools used by Geocom Informatik AG.
Contributions:1 review, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 7 months
wcswpsarcgisgeospatialwfs
geocom-gis/weboffice-infra3d
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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